Green Peace helpful or menace
The discussion at hand is global warming and how or what Green Peace is representing about the facts and what they are doing about it. The idea of Green Peace is a good idea, to move to a greener world through education in principle is great. Though it is not so easy in practice. The articles I read at their official site (http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/) were not to encouraging to me. First off they seem to me to use deceptive representations of their site and supposed facts that are on it. Going to the site for the first time their real home page pops up for just a second then another screen pops over that (pop-up) and wants you to sign in and give over you personal email and information seemingly to just get in to the site. This right of the bat throws up red flags to me, why would a supposable people and environmentally friendly origination use a deceptive pop up page like that. The page that pops up over the home page is a full page and dose not say any thing about the option of quitting to go to the main page with out information. Don't fall for it like my wife did the first time she went there. Even though she made a yahoo email account just to get in to the site (because I have a feeling they will flood that email account with Spam) she like most people cann't help but be mostly honest about what information that they use. So now Green Peace has her real name, and of course within a few minutes of my wife signing in they sent her email spam. I am a little more shroud then that I Xed out of that pop up and went straight to the main home page.
Stumbling my way thought their web site getting blasted with a good many pages were they ask for money I finally made to the page were they describe the global warming problem and what they suppose we should do about it. After the pop up ad I am ready to take their facts and suggestions with a grain of salt. The way they represent the problem reminds me of the ad campaign of every other major corporation from oil, tobacco and even public office elections. To me they tend to run a more negative campaign, focusing more about complaining and pointing fingers then real viable solutions. Yes the pictures and movies pull at their heartstrings they all make you feel sad about the cause they push. Some of their pictures and movies seem a little bit to posed or set up. It is easy to take what you see at its contexts, but these pictures don't give you all the information only what they want you to see. But that does not mean that they are all fake or set up.
The problem is real, global warming is real; the way that portray the problem and what caused it is not supported by the facts. There are many factors that go in to global warming, man is just 1 of billions of factors. I read an article back in the 90's that Green Peace circulated said that domestic cows were a major contributing factor to global warming and the ozone depletion through the production of methane gas (farting). But the facts are that there were all most as many wild herds of buffalo in the past then there are conman domestic cattle in the present. In the 1600 and 1800 wild buffalo estimated numbered in the 60 millions (according to one source http://www.nebraskastatebuffalo.org/history.html,) and the domestic cattle of the 90's was only about 1/3 more, according to Data from USDA ERS Red Meat Yearbook and Agricultural Statistics, as sighted in a report from Law Offices of Stewart and Stewart 2100 M Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20037 Tel: 202 785-4185, in and article at (http://www.nebraskastatebuffalo.org/history.html) now this report does not take in affect how many other animals that humans have nearly hunted to extinction in the last 300 years. So the fact remains is the planet getting warmer, and the answer is yes. The planet is getting warmer. But what they don't tell you on the site (at least not any were I could find) is that the earth goes through cycles of cold and warm from ice age to ages of flooding and ozone depletion, and this has been going on for millions of years before man ever walk the earth.
As this tine chart shows we are not even close to the warmest period in our near human history. Dose this mean that Green Peace is completely in the wrong with their global warming theory? No I don't personally think so. There are a lot of facts of how much green house gas we put out and how much atmospheric scrubbing forest we killing every day; but we also stop a lot of things that cause global warming too. Forest fires for example. We stop 1,000's if not 10,000's of naturally occurring forest fires, natural land erosion and replanting and cultivating of previously baron land. The data we have now is more precise, accurate and in clearer in detail. So there in lays the problem, we are just now in the last 50 years becoming more aware that there could be a problem. We just need more data. Scientists are constantly modifying their computer models as more advance technology comes out. So in my opinion and with the facts as I know them from my research, the jury is still out on how we are affecting the world climate. As the information is represented at the Green Peace web page is bias to their agenda.
Now as for their solution to the problem, it sounds nice to the ear; but they show very little to back it up or a way to implement it. The technology is there but it is costly to implement it and very time consuming. Yes, solar power is a great way to get clean energy, and so is wind power: But it's not as easy as that, we can't just throw up a few solar panels and a few wind turbines and call it a day. Unfortunately that technology is costly and some times not easy to produce. Another problem is the skilled labor it takes to make, install and maintenance it we just don't have it. Most of our workforce is trained to work with the technology we have to day. It takes time to change over to the new industrial technology. Kind of like switching from steam to electric took almost 100 years, and some places in smaller not so economical strong country's still use steam.
So it comes down to the way that Green Peace presents their opinion on the global warming issue. I do mean "Opinion" they give very little facts about the problem and those facts that they do give don't usually show both sides of the story, and as for their solution for the problem, well it is a little short sighted. Green Peace does not give real numbers for fixing and installing their solutions. It all comes down to yes there is "probably" a problem but there is no over night fix, it is not as simple as they lead the reader to believe at the website. Changing the way we produce energy and products will take time and there is no solid scientific data to say that if we don't fix the problem in the next few years the earth will die. The planet has recovered before from worse, from being a solid ice ball several times to oxygen levels being so low that it could not support human life. The articles I read on Green Peace's website read more like propaganda then actual scientific information. So take Green Peace with a grain of salt and not just at what they want you to think. They have some good ideas but it is up to you to judge which ones have merit. So do your own research and think about both sides of the coin before drawing conclusions.
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