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Maybe you celebrated Earth Day, maybe you ignored it. Maybe you share the cynicism that has been becoming overt on more than a few environmental sites, or at least noticed it.
For the international celebration of a cause that we are working for, articles like (just a sampling):
- My F*%k Earth Day Blog Post
- Unsuck Earth Day, Please
- Let’s dump “Earth Day”
- Greenwash of the Week: Earth Day!
don’t exactly seem to be caught up in the spirit of it.
Or how about this group email?:
“It’s that time of year again: Earth Day, a singular day when the faithless are moved to buy reusable grocery bags.
At #######, we get pretty rankled at all the Earthapalooza shenanigans. What’s next, Ye Olde Mattress Sale? Honestly.
Let’s face it, we’re all just doing the best we can. And we do the best we can every stinking day. Not just on some tarted-up, feel-good, strum-your-guitar day of glowing holiness …“
I want to talk about something far more important than Earth Day, more important than saving endangered species, or “the planet”, or humanity.
First a little context.
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Why don’t you have just one larger category labeled “Comments of whose content I disagree with”? [1]
Anyway read about the history of Earth Day.
http://open.salon.com/blog/jimgalt/2009/12/29/the_sky_is_falling_a_brief_history_of_media_panic [2]
Cheers
Roger
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Trouble is that I am old enough to remember the speculation about the coming iceage and the CIA apparently took it seriously.
Click to access 1974iceagereport.pdf
That the speculation and mild panic actually occurred is fact.
Mind you the public never took it very seriously and it went away. More importantly I remember clearly that there was less snow for skiing in the US west those years than normal.
Cheers
Roger
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Roger, read this:
http://www.skepticalscience.com/ice-age-predictions-in-1970s.htm
Better start with the “basic” level…
Roger
Go over to Real Climate and read today’s article about a letter by Steve Schneider in 1971, concerning cooling effects of aerosols and the warming effects of CO2.
BTW There were 44 scientific papers published suggesting global warming from human emissions of CO2, verses 7 papers suggesting cooling from aerosols during this time period in the 70s.
You guys should read my blog. [1]
Unfortunately the owner of this blog will not publish the link. Maybe he has a problem with the content. Can’t imagine why [2] though because he keeps such an open forum generally 😉
Cheers
Rogerfromnewzealand
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