On Saturday I attended a talk on climate change and its effect on forests. What I expected to take away from this presentation was hard facts and solid data to let me make some real conclusions based on sound scientific reasoning. I left the talk very disappointed. There is little doubt in my mind that climate change is occurring. The discussion on which factors cause these warm and cool cycles certainly muddies the water. We are bombarded by information at all levels and most of it is slanted one way or the other. Everyone has a spin to put on it. The nightly news has morphed since the time of Cedric Adams and is more entertainment than actual news reporting. Ratings and how to keep listenership have changed the whole system dramatically. There is a multitude of factors that will affect the warming process. Man’s activities are certainly a part of the equation. We need to conserve wherever we can and do whatever can be done to tone down the excesses.

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2. On Saturday I attended a talk on climate change
and its effect on forests. What I expected to take
away from this presentation was hard facts and
solid data to let me make some real conclusions
based on sound scientific reasoning. I left the talk
very disappointed.

3. There is little doubt in my mind that climate
change is occurring. The discussion on which
factors cause these warm and cool cycles certainly
muddies the water.
We are bombarded by information at all levels and
most of it is slanted one way or the other.
Everyone has a spin to put on it.

4. The nightly news has morphed since the time of
Cedric Adams and is more entertainment than
actual news reporting. Ratings and how to keep
listenership have changed the whole system
dramatically.

5. Climate change is a very complicated issue and has
numerous variables that go into it. Almost all our
energy comes from or has come from the sun. Our
coal, gas and oil reserves are the product of past
interaction of plants and our sun. Energy from the
sun is the prime mover in this equation and the
sun is the reason that life on our planet exists.
How man’s overpopulation and abuse of the
earth’s resources contribute to the natural
phenomena of climate change is what is debated.

6. Last summer has been deemed warmer than
normal for parts of the northern hemisphere.
Warmer springs combined with milder winters
give some credibility to a warmer environment
over time. A natural warming trend over the last
8,000 years has turned the earth into a very
comfortable place for humans to reproduce and
prosper.

7. Farming areas once covered by a mile of glacial ice
are now producing crops to feed the hungry.
Trends are established over time and there are
trends among trends. A short time period of a few
hundred years is really too short of a time period
to make any viable predictions. Google “Little Ice
Age” and see what can happen to a relatively
large area over a short period of time.

8. Getting back to the presentation, the main culprit
in the global warming story is manmade carbon
dioxide. Burning of fossil fuels supposedly drives
climate change causing the earth to warm
because of the greenhouse effect. Is carbon
dioxide a bad thing? Carbon dioxide is the reason
for life on earth. It is converted by plants through
photosynthesis to produce carbohydrates and
water along with the by product oxygen. Again,
energy from the sun makes photosynthesis
possible. Is too much carbon dioxide a bad thing?