I'd check some of those "facts" Russians are suffering from a severe heat wave along with those fires. Here in Florida, we broke our average July temperature and had a couple of record days.
There is ample information online that relates cold winters with global warming. Greenland also just lost a chunk of ice the size of Manhattan Island.
I'm not so sure we aren't the sole cause. Look at all of the forest that have been stripped, land that has had vegetation removed by strip mining, all the Co2 we spew into the air from our power plants and over 250 million cars in America alone. You can say we aren't the sole cause and you may be right, however we can take steps to stop pollution, whether it means cooler temps or lower cancer rates or cleaner air and water, we are stewards of our resources.
We are deffinately not the sole cause, as I said, we are in no way helping, but we don't actually contribute as much as some people will have you believe, but I totally agree with you man, we should be taking measures to do what we can to preserve the earth, but also in saying that, the earth will shit us out when it has had enough, regardless of what we do to try and prevent that.
If I remember rightly, it's every 6,000 or so years (researched rigorously by scientists) that a natural disaster the size of a couple of hundred hiroshima sized bombs happens (sorry I know my numbers are vague, but it's been a while since I've spoken about these things) whether it be giant volcanoes erupting (yellowstone park), or massive tectonic shifts (earth quakes) and we are over due for one of these occurances according to scientists, so yeah although this isn't very motivating, in my opinion we are all pretty much fucked no matter what we do. It takes millions of years for the earth to fully recycle it's water, minerals, gases etc. And during those millions of years crazy shit happens because of this recycling process. Ice ages, heat waves, deadly gases being released into the atmosphere, earth quakes, volcanic eruptions, in the event of an eruption of the yellowstone caldera, the majority of the world would be screwed, have you seen the size of that thing, the deaths and resulting mayhem that would ensue would be of colossal scale.
I completely agree that we should give more respect to mother earth, but in the grand scale of things we are a mere speck of dust in the history of this planet, and when our time is up, it's up, our influence over all will only shorten this process by a hundred years or so. Then once the earth has finished it's rince and wash cycle it will probably be a very different place, but that will leave the door open for another form of life, and further evolution. Kinda cool really, just unfortunate that we have to get fucked over, but like I said, it's nothing to a planet thats been here for billions of years, whether we are here or not, as other forms of life will undoubtably take our place.
Yeah I saw the iceberg that is floating around, massive! But in the veeeeeeeeeery long run, it will return to it's place, all water (frozen or not) is part of that recycling that I was talking about. And all that tree felling that goes on really is a crime, unfortunately these big companies can't see past the end of their noses (wallets) and even more unfortunately, money brings power, and these companies deffinately have the money to be powerful. I mean realistically what the fuck can we do, it's bullshit!
Anyway, if anyone is interested I highly recoment that book I mentioned by Bill Bryson, so interesting and very insightful.
