Just a forewarning, this is a ramble. XD I'll try to keep it short but I usually have difficulties doing so. I talk too much. )X

It aggravates me that some people don't care about global warming. I understand if they don't understand how it works, therefore they aren't completely aware of what's happening with the world, but when they have to go and make broad statements of how it's something scientists made up, that's what gets me. If you make that claim, where is you basis for that? If you give falsified information to back up that statement, that's fine if that's what you really thought. Just be prepared to be corrected (by anyone who has seen the news).

This started off on a forum about a complaint about how the "globe" doesn't seem to be "warming" with such drastic temperature changes in the climate. (The girl showed the forecast for the next few days in her area where the temperature was around 25 degrees to 70 degrees). She then claimed it was "global-can't-make-up-its-mind". I had to comment and say that it's BECAUSE of global warming that the temperature changes are so drastic. Global warming doesn't really cause hot temperatures. It will actually freeze the earth over.

It would have been fine to leave it at just that, but then someone had to go and say this:
"I honestly think global warming is just something the media has stuck out there for publicity. It's more of a natural cause than anything with these temp changes and what not."

Publicity or not, don't you think it's SOMETHING people should be concerned about, anyway? Well, I know some people don't care because it's their grandkids' problem, but.. it wouldn't help to make efficient use of our energy. It wouldn't hurt anyone to recycle or turn off the lights when you're not using them. Even if you're not an all-green person, every little bit helps. It really adds up.

I wasn't the only one who brought up this point. Another fellow poster asked if anyone has seen Inconvenient Truth, to which someone responds,
"Sorry, I have a hard time beliving anything that comes from Al Gore. :/"

Okay, whoa. You don't have to like Al Gore to understand the planet is in peril. Heck, I didn't even know that was the title of something. Let alone, something by Al Gore. *I'm not too good at keeping up with politicians*

So then that conversation seems to die there, but someone comes by and says,
"Global warming makes me laugh XD
It's been proven by lots of scientists that it isn't real :p
The earth's tempurature has decreased like, one fifth of a percent of a mili degree or something in the last 1000 years or so XDDD"

Then later,
"Well, I guess if God wants us all to die then we will, doesn't matter how many green shopping bags we buy for 8 bucks 8D"

I won't say anymore in rebuttal, but it really saddens me that there are people out there who don't care about what's happening. Many people will be without countries as they sink below the ocean, and here there are people who answer that with ignorance.

All in all, I think it's fine if you don't care making a huge effort. I'm not saying everyone should start biking and slash Hummers. I'm just saying it wouldn't hurt at all to turn off the lights in a room you're not using or to recycle a plastic bottle.

Someone else worded it real nicely when they said,
"And even if carbon emissions aren't the cause, I think it would be a good thing in general not to be so wasteful, and to get better pollution laws etc."