I do not know one way or the other except……
The stuff I see of the polar caps and the melting ice and massive reduction of the ice shelfs. Is that down to the planet’s climate rising and if so, is it humans causing it? I haven’t got a scooby. Are those facts true? is it only in the last 60 years or so this has been happening or is it a cycical thing that regardless of what we do, it is something the earth goes through as a matter of course every so many hundred or thousands of years?
My logical (or illogical probably) brain says, if there is now more of a particular harmful substance, which granted has also in the past been emitted naturally (volcanos and the like) being pumped into the air, there is going to be an effect of some sort. Now, it is possible that before, the natural emission of this substance was counteracted by the planet by having huge areas of forestation to cope with it. But, because of the actions of humans those forests has and continues to be reduced dramatically, thus reducing the planet’s ability to adjust a bit like a young persons lungs against an old person with emphysema. So, the question is, does that inability lead to the average temperature of the earth rising and if so effect the weather patterns too? I’m buggered if I know, but again my logic says probably. As for the heat waves hitting areas or not as the case may be, maybe this rise in temperature also effects jet streams and how the scoot around the planet…I don’t know.
We cannot deny that what humans are doing on this planet must have some effect. Just look at what platsic waste and waste in general are doing or the dumping of raw sewage killing rivers.
All I do know is that the unfortunate thing about most humans be they individuals or governments or massive companies, most have a ‘live for today and sod tomorrow’ attitude. We have for the most part forgotten how to live with nature and because of our prolification, want or need to tame it and that never ends well. We look at people like amazonian tribes or the old American indigenous tribes and think them backwards, but they managed the natural resources didn’t destroy them. It is a myth that they hunted species to exctinction. Only modern man has killed species to exctinction…The Dodo being just one example.
The trouble with modern humans is that we invent and make wonderful things, many of which make our lives easier more comfortable, but in making these things we never considered what happens to them when they become useless or obsolete and have to be thrown away.
So, in conclusion there is only one thing I do know and cannot be sensibly or scientifically disputed….the earth is not flat!
