Bobsonsirjonny wrote:
Last night I was typing up my youngest sisters homework - she wrote it all out in long hand and I typed it as she is slow and it had to be in this morning.
It was about Global Warming. She had to make a case for and against the Theory. While the Earth has warmed and cooled significantly over the last 10,000 years(for example Vines were often grown by monks in the middle ages in the most unlikely of places such as Northumbria) the greatest increase in temperature happened in the 1950's. We are polluting this planet - you cant dispute that - and the oil will run out. Thats two reasons to start taking a mature and adult response to the problems which we are brewing up. When the oil runs out we are screwed. You cant very well mine for Oil on the moon either - there is none there - infact there is no other planet yet discovered with the black stuff - and you'd use more fuel trying to retrieve it.
Thing is there's an awful lot of controversy about it. We've buggered around with all sorts of things in the past few thousand years and we aren't 100% sure what the consequences will be. Now I don't claim to be a scientist but six billion people must be making an impact of sorts. An area the size of Wales disappearing weekly from southern America's rain forests surely cannot go unnoticed? We're taking a helluva risk here so let's please be sure about what we're doing.
