Originally Posted by Robbie

I honestly don't know if it does or it doesn't.

You have meteorologists saying "no" the Earth isn't warming, and the scientists at NASA pointed out that the Earths mean temperature has been flat for the last ten years.

And then you have scientists on one side saying it's warming because of man. And other scientists saying it isn't.

And then of course I remember when I was in highschool in the 1970's and climatologists were stating that we were headed for an "Ice Age" because of carbon in the atmosphere from man. (that one didn't quite work out)

My real question is this:
If we are really destroying the planet by burning fossil fuels...then why aren't our govt.'s doing anything about it?
Look at us in the USA. We are being forced to buy health insurance whether we want it or not. We are forced to wear seat belts when we drive. We are spied on by our govt.

And yet...with this planet-ending, end-of-human-life catastrophe...the govt. does nothing.
If they can already force us to do all these other, relatively inconsequential things...then why doesn't the govt. mandate solar panels on every building in the United States?

You would think that if this is going to kill everybody unless we do something, then drastic measures would be taken. We've already see that the people in the U.S. will roll over like sheep for the govt.
So why aren't they taking any steps to do something?

When WW2 happened, the entire U.S. was told to get behind the War Machine and it did. Car factories stopped making cars and started making tanks and jeeps. New tires weren't allowed for civilian use...all rubber was for military vehicle tires. The list goes on.

Why aren't we doing that NOW.

Instead of treating this like an emergency, our govt. seems to be acting as if it's some kind of money grab ("carbon credits", giving money to "green" companies, etc.)

I don't put anything past our govt. and politicians. And since they've already know that the majority of people will believe something based on "faith" (religion)...that tells them that they could theoretically invent most any story and make people believe it.

It's confusing for normal people like myself.

On one hand you have scientists who are funded by people with interests in "Green Energy" saying that mankind using fossil fuels is causing the Earth to warm up (or freeze over if you believed what they said in the 1970's/1980's).
On the other hand you have scientists who get funding from oil companies saying it's not true.
Then on the other hand...you have meteorologists and NASA scientists saying that it's not really warming up relatively speaking.

Hard to tell who is telling the truth.

But I do believe that if we are really on the verge of extinction from fossil fuels, that the govt. would at the very LEAST mandate all buildings to use solar panels and wind turbines.

The fact that the govt. itself isn't taking it seriously enough to do so tells me something is fishy.