Reply #2: Global Volatility Is A Better Term [View All]

[KittyWampus]

IMO, than global warming.

Some Republican was spouting off in the Senate last week about how the climate is NOT whacked out by fossil fuel burning/emission... That there was a mini Ice Age in the Middle Ages and that any changes are strictly Natural Cycles.

What we can counter the Pugs with is the question-

Who is better able to recuperate from the flu, a healthy 20 year old who eats well and excercises or a 50 year old who smokes a pack a day?

There have been climactic changes and there are definately warming and cooling cycles but it is only within the last 100 years that we've added so much pollution to the atmosphere, laid down so much asphalt and chopped down so much rain forest.

The Earth, with the current crop of humankind on it, is being forced into the positon of a 50 year smoker trying to battle influenza.