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Originally posted by PurpleXVI:
Er, you'd have to have some pretty insane lights and have them on at all hours of day if they actually did anything to heat your house.
And yes, incandescent light bulbs will destroy the world. Them and so many other things.
If we want to cut down on our energy use we can either choose to cut down on a few Big Things like cars(Not going to happen, because people are selfish jackholes.) or we can do a lot of small things like increasing efficiency for light bulbs and other ordinary things and simply forcing people to switch to the more efficient alternatives(Enforce it and tell them they'll save money, that'll get almost everyone doing it.). Enough projects like that could eventually have the same effect as one of the big changes, but people might actually do it since it wouldn't force them to change their lives considerably. For example, as the article states, a worldwide bulb change would save as much as five times the total energy use of Australia. Can you imagine that?
I'm also wondering what is wrong with the hurricane comment. It IS pretty much proven, as far as I know, that global warming(No matter what's causing it.) is also screwing with global weather, causing more droughts in Africa, more hurricanes in North America, more flooding in Europe and probably a bunch of other things I simply don't know about.
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The problem with Global Warming being responsible for more hurricanes is that warm air alone doesn't create a hurricane. I would point out that we didn't have the massive influx of hurricanes we were supposed to have last hurricane season in support of the WTH were these people thinking attitude. I have read that that may be due to the El Nino event we had. It's supposed to slow down hurricane formation. Of course, I read in the same report that dust storms in Africa may have slowed them down too. I guess it would be safe to assume, based on that, that there were no dust storms in Africa in 2005.
I guess my position on "Global warming causes more hurricanes" is this: what are we to do now? The "building blocks" are already in place, and nothing we do now can change that. The foundations have been laid. However, since the scientific community can't even agree that global warming is to blame, why should I think, automatically, that it's all mankind's fault that our globe is warmer? It's no like there is no record of this pattern repeating itself in the past. Hell, I live at what used to be the bottom of an inland sea. If the globe hadn't warmed up and evaporated that water, I wouldn't be living where I am now. However, it is so much easier to point at us and say it's our fault, rather than admit that it may be a naturally occuring phenomenon. We may not help the situation much, but I sincerely doubt that we are 100% responsible for the "problem".