by Sherry Bentley-Short

Created on: April 22, 2008

No! Global Warming is not a hoax but at the same time there is very little that we can do to stop it. The earth like any other living creature goes through cycles. We are seeing a upward trend in heating and this is causing things to melt. I am positive that we are not helping matters any with all the damage that we do to the environment but these natural shifts take place. Is Global Warming a hoax? Is a double sided question. Is it a hoax in the sense that we are causing it and for that we are like fleas on the backside of our planet? No.

Global Warming is a natural event and like with all natural events we should work to try to find ways to save ourselves when it does get out of control and stop trying to find ways to fix a planet that is going to do whatever it pleases anyway. Some people if you can actually believe this believe that we can stop the planets natural processes, now that's arrogance.
By cutting down forest we are not damaging the earth because we are replanting trees in mass quantities. We are hurting our wildlife that has no real place to go there are sanctuaries but this is not the same as the wild and the free. Far be it for me to agree with any of China's policy's but the fact is if we for ten years put a limit on the amount of children people were allowed to have we would cut down drastically on damage done to the earth. WE are over-populated and eventually mother earth will fix that. Tsunamis, Tornadoes, Floods, Hurricanes and Earthquakes are mother natures means of pest control.

The ice age ended the very day that Global warming started and has been happening ever since. The earth warms up around ever 100,000 years these are called interglacial periods, some people say that these happen to last about 10 to 20 thousand years before the earth starts cooling. So possibly in 20 thousand years or so people will be on the net or something much more advanced saying Is Global cooling a hoax and are we responsible. Science teaches us a lot when we are able to put aside other forced beliefs and read a book.

Here is one fact: Water cannot be destroyed. It is ever changing in form but cannot and will not be destroyed. We just have to find ways of working with it. I still have a garden I don't water it the old fashion way anymore, I got creative. I have a few water barrels, thing is though I have always had these. WHY? Because my grandparents had these if you want to know best how to protect yourself against our environment, go talk to n Indian.

This article brought back a childhood memory that is very case specific. Picture on stilts a 100 gallon drum of water. On top of that drum is a hole cut out and turned on it side with the ends of the drum sticking out there is a there is a rubber flap hooked to a chain. Now picture 4 grand kids all with a bar of soap taking their evening baths. Warm from having cooked in the sun all day but cooling due to the evening air. Now picture a little girl saying paw paw I love taking my baths this way and him saying little we are keeping you clean and saying man by 6 months every time you take one of your fun baths. These barrels are not a new concept but the ways that we use them are. Go with global warming it's going to happen no matter what we do. The most important thing is that we adapt and do the things that we need to do to survive it and teach our children as well.

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