dreadilitrocon's blog: ".. vindictive"

I realize that not everyone has the time to study a lot of science and I feel fortunate that I have had the opportunity to return to school afte highschool. For those of you unfamiliar with the problems involved with climate change please take a few minutes to read this post. Global warming is shrinking the size of the polar ice caps rather dramatically. The ice caps are the engines that drive the aeration of the oceans. Oxygen rich surface water is cooled by the ice caps and sinks into the deeper water taking oxygen with it. If this process fails, as it will if the ice caps melt, the ocean water will stagnate and no longer support life. This happened once before, at the end of the Permian era. The result was the death and extinction of 95% of life on earth at that time. That time it was volcanic activity that started the process but we humans have pumped enough CO2 into the atmosphere since the beginning of the industrial revolution to put us well along the way to a similar disaster. I'm not saying that we need to save the planet. The planet will survive. It's the fact that it will no longer support human life that will affect our children and their children. Putting a "climate change denier" into the Senate committee in charge of environmental regulation is the worst case scenario of a fox guarding the hen house.