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Time Will Tell

Saturday, 26. September 2009, 22:11:15

I remember when I was a very young man - in the late seventies.

My father said to me: "Son, think of all that fuel we burn off each day all over the planet. I can't understand why the air isn't getting warmer because of that. All that heat, all that burning".

My dad didn't think about CO2 and the greenhouse effect. He was thinking in more simple terms. And I remember thinking: "That silly old man. He must be daft. I choose not to comment on his silly thinking at all".

Now we're in the middle of it, and it turns out that he was more right about things than at least I thought. He died in '97 and never knew how right he really was.

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Comments

Stardancer # 26. September 2009, 23:06

It's amazing how our parents get smarter and smarter as we get older and older, isn't it?

At least, most of the time.

ellinidata # 27. September 2009, 00:26

" He died in '97 and never knew how right he really was."

but we do

a great tribute to a great man!

norfrid # 27. September 2009, 05:20

All this extreme weather that we're experiencing these days is probably Mother Earth trying to cool herself down.

gdare # 27. September 2009, 06:02

Sometimes people are saying things unaware how true it might be. A time will tell.....

I hope this is not a price in euro?

Aqualion # 27. September 2009, 09:50

Yes, the most disturbing thing about this global warming affair is, that we knew it would happen. Think about it. We knew it would happen. And we did very little if anything at all to prevent it. And now we have to face the consequences. Not the consequences of a stupid thing we accidently did, but the consequenses of not doing the right thing. In a biblical way not doing what you know is right is the worst sin of them all.

ricewood # 27. September 2009, 19:38

Thanks for all the comments.

My dad was right in the sense, that everything we do has a consequence one way or the other.

And, true enough, we let it all happen. We have been warned since the early eighties, as far as I remember.

Darko, these are Danish Kroner per liter.

gdare # 27. September 2009, 21:46

edwardpiercy # 28. September 2009, 02:09

I was looking some stuff up today and found that the asteroid that hit the planet in the Jurassic wiped out approximately 1/2 of all species. And that the projection is that we humans in the next 100 years will wipe out 1/2 of all the current species.

I hope the next tennants do a better job than we did.

I imagine your dad with his pipe saying that about the heat. I always imagine your dad with his pipe saying something wise. In my head he's like this character in a story...except I know that he was no fiction.

ricewood # 28. September 2009, 06:39

My dad did some really stupid talking through that pipe also. No real need to quote him for any of that, I think

pjbatty # 1. October 2009, 13:05

Heck, even you didn't believe it all years back (James Hansen at NASA has been vocal about the matter for many years), there's enough evidence now.

Personally, my view is that even if you don't believe it, it seems a moral imperative to want to reduce consumption for the good of the planet. Cars and power plants are just one very visible way of halting it. And no, I don't think hydrogen/electric cars are the way to go. I think we'll run short of cheap oil before we can build them now.

ricewood # 1. October 2009, 14:45

To save resources and money was indeed a moral imperative back in the days. I remember my grandmother who found it "gross" to use more than absolutely necessary.

We should have stuck to that way of living.

BabyJay99 # 4. October 2009, 03:18

53north # 5. October 2009, 18:04

I've read all the prison camp escaper novels - The Great Escape, Colditz, The Wooden Horse etc..
not to mention the 16 novels of a Tibetan lama...knowing just what can be done with next to nothing and eating like a Holy man makes life so damn easy. It's people's uncurbed perverse appetites that lead their health and the world into troubles..

ricewood # 5. October 2009, 19:48

Yes. A greedy man is easy to seduce