Blog Action Day '09 - Climate Change

October 15th was what was called Blog Action Day '9 and it was to deal with the subject of climate change.  It seems everyone has an opinion about this and I am no different.  

 I am solidly in the middle on the subject of global warming.  Yes, I do believe that there is a bit of warming going on, but I also believe that it is the natural state of things.  Cooling and warming trends have been happening since this planet was created and they will continue to happen long after we humans have been stupid enough to kill ourselves off.

Do we need to clean up what we've done to the environment?  Sure we do, just as we should clean up our rooms and wash the dishes.  It isn't healthy, physically or emotionally, to live in squalor and that's what we are doing right now as a human race.  But, to think that we are that significant to this planet that we can affect the climate on a global scale, at least to the point of annihilation, is ridiculous and arrogant on our part.

And who's to say that these "solutions" that are being bandied about by the climate change PACs aren't going to make things worse?  If these people truly think that we can bring the Earth's temperature back down, then what's to stop us from going too far and causing the next ice age?

The solution is to clean up our acts, develop new energy sources that are emission neutral and let the Earth take care of herself.  She's been doing it for 4 billion years, so I think she can do a much better job of it than we can.