Professor Chaos' Blog

I am selling Martian Carbon Offsets. Only $200.00 per cu/tn. Don't let Mars fall prey to the same fate as the Earth! Call your local representative and let them know we need to do something NOW. Leo Dicaprio has alredy pledged to "make a martian difference"....won't you?

A few days ago ProfessorChaos suggested that volcanoes and nature itself generated more greenhouse gasses that mankind, as if that absolved us from any responsibility whatsoever. Now he's on about the sun's increased output, which, again, does nothing to make our own contribution to the problem go away. The guys at Duke University who published their solar activity findings in 2005 determined that the sun could be contributing 10-30% to global warming, which still makes it a minority player.

All these factors are additive. Mankind likely isn't the sole cause of the warming. So what? It hardly means that we should dodge the part we are responsible for.

Then again, why act responsibly when we can simply play politics and blame somebody else?

I don't think anyone is questioning whether the world will still be spinning, and there's little doubt that it'd take some pretty harsh conditions to wipe out all life on earth --- witness the bacteria that thrive near volcanic vents deep in the ocean. But some people do care about the quality of the world left to their children and grandchildren, and it's in the nature of such people to act responsibly given the best information available at the time.

Can we make a difference on a global scale? Perhaps, perhaps not. But one thing is certain: we have no chance of affecting change if we never even bother to try.