Sam,

You say you believe in “personal liberty” (and diversity), then take the opposite socialist dictator direction on just about every issue. Referring to your remark “a collective community approach is necessary to some pressing issue” - Collectivism as defined by Webster is a political or economic theory advocating collective control esp. over production and distribution or system marked by such control. The word “collective” is also appears as a synonym for “socialist” as does communist, Marxist, Leninist & Maoist. The word “capitalist” is an antonym. Furthermore, this country was founded on the principals that come with the freedom of a democracy to escape the socialism and collectivism in other parts of the world.

Global climate change has occurred without human intervention throughout the history of the Earth. Volcanoes, comets and the even the sun have changed the climate drastically. Evidence of palm trees that once existed have been found beneath one of the polar caps Only 11,000 years ago, a sheet of ice miles thick covered much of Canada. The melting of Ice created the Columbia Gorge. None of those dreaded SUV’s that date back to when it was created have yet to be ever found petrified and imbedded in the gorge walls. It is politically motivated science is that says humans are to be blamed for global warming. A couple or so decades back when more so-called greenhouse gasses were being omitted than today, the Earth was a cooler place in part because the gasses partially blocked the rays of the Sun from heating the planet. Therefore, it can be concluded that if man is, at least in part, causing climate change, it is due to our numbers, over population, rather than our activities. Yet you and other alarmists completely ignore that premise in preference to injecting fear into the community for the purpose of controlling the daily lives of the people including lifestyle, housing and transport choices.

The following three paragraphs are from reliable information sources on the internet:

The human body itself generates heat, and more heat than it needs. The body has adaptations for releasing that excess heat, such as convection, radiant loss, dry respiration, latent respiration, water diffusion, and evaporation. The rate of heat production in the body is known as the metabolic rate, or met, where one unit is 360 Btu/hour. The typical person, awake and seated, generates 1 met. A fast game of tennis or a quick bike ride will generate 4 mets. The excess heat has to leave the body or the person will overheat and die. That excess heat is released into the environment.

The current world population is 6,707,035,000. Assuming each is simply standing around, there are 6,707,035,000 mets being generated each and every hour of every day. Now, assume each person only needs to shed 25% of their generated heat as excess (a conservative number, by the way). The result is that we have 603,633,150,000 Btu’s of heat being released into the environment every hour.

To give you an idea of how much heat that is, the required Btu’s to melt one short ton of ice in 24 hours is 12,000 Btu/hour. The people of this planet, then, generate enough excess heat to melt 50,302,762 tons of ice every 24 hours. That is a lot of heat no matter how you look at it. It works out that each person, at rest, is shedding enough heat to melt 15 pounds of ice each day!

Therefore, if the theory that humans are aiding to cause global climate change, then the first step in any discussion, especially with the public, MUST be to find ways to stabilize, or even reverse the growth of human population on the planet instead of just dismissing over population and stating “I like babies”.