Some thoughts on climate change

I had coffee today with Monique Conheady of Flexicar and amongst other things we discussed Global Warming and Climate Change.  Now the funny thing about talking about your ideas is that all of a sudden you have to defend what were previously whimsical musings.  What’s even funnier is to write a post about them, you really need to order your thoughts as well as support them.  So three points about Climate Change.

Point 1.  I don’t believe in man made Climate Change
I suggested to Monique that I don’t believe in man made global warming.  My belief is that climate change is occurring but its part of the natural order of things.  As a systems person I know that you can create great complexity from a number of simple rules or changes, but in an open system with an infinite number of variables its ridiculous to believe that the actions of man over the last 100 years are responsible for the climate change and experts on either side of the table make good arguments to me (the climateology luddite).  So I reckon climate change is clearly ocurring but to connect that to the actions of man with certainty and religuous fervour is insane….but……

Point 2. Its stupid to shit in your own backyard.
I don’t think its a good idea to shit in your own backyard.  When  I trained in the Army, we always dug our latrine well away from anyone’s position.  If you didn’t you knew that the insects were going to crawl all over it then poison your food.  There were plenty of stories from a couple of thousand years of warfare were people did exactly that and ended up sick and dead.  Therefore although I don’t believe in mad made global warming as yet,  I do believe its clearly ridiculous to polute the planet sicne we only have a finite amount of real estate.  At some stage things we will have to pay the price, so lets stop doing it right now.  No more ridiculous abstrations such as the ETS (they still let you polute for gods sake).  So lets be a global leaderleader not jus a follower.  Sure it will damage/kill some industries but clearing out dead wood always allows for unexpected new growth to occur.

Point 3.  Killing life is not going to happen, but thats not the problem.
At the bottom of the ocean in compelete darkness, under tonnes of pressure,  there are bacteria living around sulphur vents practising chemosynthesis and having a good time.  They don’t care about climate change as our current environment would kill them.  This situation is repeated again and again in nature,  In almost every niche there is life that has adapted and filled out the niche.   So the problem of climate change is not about killing life, but killing life like me.

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