It seems to me nearly all research that is blown up and published by various media outlets is pseudoscience. They keep changing the disasters, they keep changing the names, they really don't know what the -blam!- is going on. All they do is publish and blow up certain crap screw ball theories for whatever will work with them towards their agenda. The best part is these -blam!- wads like al ogre expect me to bike 15 miles to work to save more on my already TINY 'carbon footprint' while he has 5 houses all 3 or 4 times the size of mine and takes a private jet everywhere. Al ogre isn't a credible guy... He claimed he invented the internet! And I can only guess how much money he has made off of that 'carbon offset crap' which by the way does literally nothing to save the environment.
Furthermore some folks are so close minded about the terrors of fossil fuels and don't realize there is no such thing as clean energy. Sure some things may carry less of a carbon footprint but they also are far less efficient. Nuclear energy creates nuclear waste and the possibility of explosions, dams block and flood different Eco systems, there are pros and cons with EVERY energy source. For example those energy efficient light bulbs save a tiny but of electricity but are full of toxic crap that will continue to harm the environment long after it is removed from your home.
All that being said I fully agree and support 'greener' living I just hate all the crap the media, political leaders and 'scientists' shove down our throats to try and force us into it. Releasing fossil fuels and all the shit we have done to the planet probably isn't great for it but I personally think the earth is more competent than we think it is when dealing with humanities shit. The earth just goes through cycles and changes on its own from Pangea splitting to the ice age long before we had any influence.
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I agree with your overall sentiment that the media is the worst thing to listen to because they want big stories and big stories sometimes mean lies, or listwneing to the vocal minority on a subject. A scientist saying "global warming will have some adverse affects but won't cause the apocalypse" doesn't sell. A scientist that is waaayyyy to worked up saying "THE WORLD WILL BE OVER IN 2 YEARS" does though. And I agree everything has ups and downs. We just need to look at those in a more intelligent manner.