On Global Warming

I was looking for photos of the Amazon rain forest and came upon one that took me to this great blog with an article about global warming, it set me off on a tangent in his reply box, Sorry Stephen. Here's his blog: Check it out!

Here's the rambling I did on his blog:

Most of my recent thoughts on the subject were pretty well summed up on the final episode, Rare Planet, of National Geagraphic's Earth: The Biography, that was just recently on TV and will be again later this week. Towards the end of the show, the host said something along the lines of, I’m paraphrasing here:

“The earth has gone through many climate cooling and warming cycles and has always recovered to sustain life. Because of those cycles there have been many different dominant species inhabiting the Earth. Right now it is our turn to try to survive through this part of the cycle by doing what we can to pad the fall. We need to worry about ourselves, not the Earth, it will recover.”

I believe that, but I am by no means saying that the most intelligent species to ever inherit the Earth should blatantly do it harm. I think we should do everything we can to balance it out, by controlling emissions of CO2, by using alternative energy sources for everything. It would be for our own good. We may not recover, but the Earth will.