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Does anyone know what they call our planet in scientific circles? It is called the "blue planet". They call it this because three-fourths of the world is covered in water. I don't know about you but I think I am pretty safe with concerns to water.

Despite this we need to approach this impartially (from both a reasonable and unreasonable point of view). Yes there have been wars over water in the past because of drought (if not wars then "conflicts") in continents like Africa and Asia where there are places where there are only limited times of the year in which rain falls. However, the stimulus behind the argument at hand is that "global warming" is the cause of drought and this drought will cause the impending wars (I say impending because it is an indisputable fact that mankind will experience war in the near future). The argument has already progressed too far in that we have not even proved the initial assumption that "global warming" is in fact a threat. In order to form the basis of the argument let's spend some time examining "global warming".

First, the supporters of global warming cant seem to make up their mind over the research. On one hand if any refutation to their theory is made based upon meteorological data it is immediately discarded because meteorology is still a "developing field"; however these same people (Al Gore) will present massive graphs proclaiming the intensity of the world's heat. The truth is that the world is NOT growing hotter and even if it were we have records in the icecaps that show definitively that the earth is not at its hottest (even if it were, it would not be so because of human development, seeing that cow dung alone produces more greenhouse gasses than all of the human population combined). Second, global warming has no outwardly observably effects. If you notice, the global warming propaganda stops somewhere around September and resumes again near March, because if it's cold no one will listen to your crap about how hot we are making the world.

Now knowing that we are still not sure about the impetus about the argument I think we can continue. Assuming that the impossibility of global warming is true, we can still not say that it will cause wars over water. Global warming, in theory, would not cause worldwide drought; that is simply impossible because there is always the same amount of water present on the earth (except the .00000005 percent lost every hundred or so years due to the earths spin and gravity). When water evaporates it goes into the air and is deposited elsewhere when the humidity reaches 100 percent. Because of this, the water is cycled and never runs out. There may inevitably be strife somewhere over the acquisition and possession of water but I seriously doubt it will happen any time soon or on the scale that we generally think of when we think of war.

the argument can be made that the rain water will more likely fall on the ocean than the land which will make a lack of fresh water and an excess of salt water. this is the most valid part of the argument, although it is relatively simple to remedy. water desalination plants would be the most obvious choice to fix the problem but there are other plans to consider. if you form dikes like the Dutch have done but with some modern aditions then you can have a source of water and hydroelectric energy. by setting up hydroelectric plants behind the dikes, and funneling the water that has run through the plants inland into water tables that hre low or dry you solve both problems that may face the future, that of energy and that of water.

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