MTG Salvation

First off, no I'm not a scientist or anything so I can't explain this in detail. I do know that it has a lot to do with the underwater currents and the gulf stream controlling our weather. It makes sense if people wouldn't judge a book by its cover.

Yes, it is a "cycle". Global Warming is just speeding it up to a point where it's getting out of hand.

There isn't much ordinary citizens can do because like Nai said, it's mainly the big companies fault and if you know America like I do, we sure let the greedy ****s control the world.

Saying "what can we do" is kind of foolish if you ask me. I'm pretty positive everyone knows what they can do and what they should do, but we are all unwilling to inconvenience ourselfs to such an extent or are too lazy. I think the least we can do is try to prevent big companies from ruining the earth... or atleast find someone who will.

And yes, I have done extensive research, and have given a speech on this topic for english class so I think I know what I'm talking about a little better then most people.

"1) Global Warming doesn't increase the temperature by much, but it is enough to melt the polar ice caps.

2) When the polar ice caps melt, not only are coastlines being eaten, the Gulf Stream is being buried by the freshwater the ice caps are made up of. This can/will lead to harsher weather, more extreme temperatures and a potential new Ice Age."

So wait. The world is warming up, and everything is going to freeze over?

MAKE SENSE MAN.

Also, yes the CFC's are harming the atmosphere, we can prove this through science. However, like Nai said, there's probably just a cycle.

Also, if memory serves me correctly, the reason why there are Native Americans in the Americas is not because they naturally evolved in the Americas, but rather traveled here. Along the Bering Strait during the Ice Age. Since the Ice Age made the sea levels lower, there was a path between Russia and Alaska, and packs traveled it, probably following game of sorts.

A question I like to bring up when someone says something like this is: What do you propose we do?

How many ice ages has the Earth had so far? I know of at least one, and I don't study Earth's history. And, as far as I recall, this was between the age of the Dinosaurs and Humanity. Humanity wasn't involved. This leads me to believe that Earth has a pattern of global ice ages and global warming, and we luckily evolved into the space between the two.

If Earth's global warming is something that we have nothing to do with, how can we stop it? If this is something that'll happen anyways, what can humanity do, seriously? From what I've heard, cutting down on pollution and greenhouse gasses isn't going to stop this, it just might slow it down.

The final question is to whom that 'we' is targeted. I know that I, at least, have no control over global warming. I drive my car for all of fifteen minutes a day, if that. Regardless of my use of electricity (which is minuscule in the grand scheme), power plants will still burn coal and oil, polluting the atmosphere.

In other words, questions like these shouldn't be posed to the general public. There isn't really much to be done on our end. All the power to stop this lies in the hands of the big polluters. Like coal and oil plants (reduce their emissions or shut down), the trucking industry (which use much in the way of gasoline, then let out carbon monoxide in their cross-country drives), the automobile industry (which should be cutting down on emissions and increasing gas mileage, instead of creating bigger and more powerful cars), etc. Very little can be done by us, the end users, cutting back. What really needs to be done is that the products themselves need to be made better. My mom, for instance, to keep this family running, sometimes has to drive three hundred miles a day. This isn't an option. So instead of telling her to cut back (something she can't do), why not tell the company that makes the car to make one that doesn't pollute as much? Problem solved.