I love how people go out of their way to discredit global warming and then how some people take it to the extreme. My opinion is this . . . what does it hurt to try and make it a cleaner planet? If the whole idea isn't exactly true then you really haven't hurt anything by cutting down carbon emissions but what if global warming does exist? I would rather be safe than sorry.

Also, I love when people bring up the fact that people exhale carbon dioxide so somehow it means that it is ok to have as many vehicles as possible doing the same thing. People also expel urine and feces but that doesn't make it safe to eat and drink nor do you want to inhale it either.

Believe me, I am not a tree hugger or someone that goes around and lives by the idea of global warming. I just see it like I do religion . . . sure, we don't have physical proof that God exist but wouldn't we rather be safe and do the right thing just in case? Sure, we can enjoy the moment and do whatever we want but what happens if we get to the end and all of a sudden we find out God actually does exist and all of a sudden our choices in life with be judge against us. The same goes with global warming . . . I would rather do things that help improve the environment no matter if global warming exists or not but of Global warming actually does exist then we tried to do something about it instead of making it worse.

If all this green living seems too "new fangled",try thinking of it as the sort of low-key,responsible lifestyle our ancestors had (and most of the world still does) and try to overlook the addition of super-efficient,super-healthy modern technologies.

If we can get past green living being humane,frugal and available to everyone at some level,maybe we could see some merit in it.

(Even if hypocrites and the impractical seem to be its most notorious supporters.)

Ok, since some of you obviously know so much more about this "very real threat of global warming", please enlighten us. Exactly how far back are you going and how much has the Earth warmed in that amount of time? I would love for someone to come right out and tell everyone that people are destroying the planet because the temperature has risen 0.28 degrees in the past 10,000 years (according to the Isotopic Temperature Record from the Vostok Ice Core). I don't believe the industrial revolution had occurred at that point.

Do I think that it is our responsibility to take care of our environment? Heck yeah I do. Sharon22, you've got it right. Conservation is precisely what we should be concerned with. I think that we should go back to having a better respect for the land that we live on and live off of, but the global warming people are as bad as the people that think that the United States government masterminded the attack on the World Trade Center.

Back to the original intent of this blog:

I just don't think that the state of California is the right group to assist China in their environmental efforts. California's smog is a huge problem, and China already has that.