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Global Climate Change Already Costing the
World Billions
by Heywood U. Reedmore
When it comes to Global Climate Change research, forget about
impending dire consequences. They are already here. Every
year, the world spend billions of dollars studying the Earth’s
changing climate. That, according to a senior EPA official who
agreed to give an exclusive interview with Spolitics.com
because we paid him fifty bucks.
Tip of the Iceberg
But, according to the official whose accusations are so
explosive he asked to remain anonymous, Global Climate
Change research is costing us more than just money. It’s
hurting the environment, too. “For every global warming
study, we lose an acre of rainforest,” said the official. “And
that’s just the tip of the iceberg. For example, we also lose
tens of thousands of squids a year to produce the ink it takes to
print up all these studies, and that does irrevocable damage to
the ecosystem."
Dire Implications
The official didn’t have any proof of his claim, but its
implications are so terrible, they demand we take notice. At
this point, inaction may be more dangerous than action. “The
problem is, in the time it will take to prove whether or not I’m
right, it might already be too late. Something has to be the done
now about the unchecked growth of global warming studies,”
he warns.
A Two-Fold Problem
The problem, according to the official, is twofold. First there
is the expanding definition of the field. “It used to be called
Global Warming. Now we call it Global Climate Change.
Almost anything can fall under that larger, broader title.”
This ever-growing definition of the field itself has led to the
second problem, the explosive number of scientists studying it.
“With such a broad topic as ‘global climate change,’ there are a
lot of studies that can be done, and therefore, a lot of scientists
asking to do those studies.”
Tipping Point
According to the EPA official, it may already be too late. “I
fear we've reached a tipping point where the trend is
irreversible. Scientists are not stupid people. They see their
peers getting large amounts of funding studying Global Climate
Change. They don’t want to be left and so they decide to study
it, too.”
The official predicts that unless we take drastic actions, now,
we may never be able to stop the growth of Global Climate
research, a trend that is sucking billions of dollars from the
national economy and destroying the biosphere.
A Necessary Evil
However, one Democratic senator says the studies are
absolutely necessity. “A lot of people out there, probably shills
of big oil, want us to believe that this isn’t a problem worth
studying,” says the lawmaker who prefers not to be named.
“They try and call us chicken-little alarmists, but the
comparison doesn’t hold up once you consider the facts. The
fact is, we’re not saying that the sky is falling. We’re saying it’
s getting warmer. And that’s a big difference.”
Do We Know or Don't We?
But to the EPA official, it just doesn’t add up. “They all claim
that the science is settled, that global climate change is
happening and that the only way to stop it is to reduce carbon
emissions. If that’s true, then what are they studying?
Apparently we already know the problem and the answer but
we’re still spending billions of dollars a year studying it. It just
doesn’t make sense. And in the meantime, thousands of
species of animals and fauna are being destroyed as a result of
these studies.”
World Billions
by Heywood U. Reedmore
When it comes to Global Climate Change research, forget about
impending dire consequences. They are already here. Every
year, the world spend billions of dollars studying the Earth’s
changing climate. That, according to a senior EPA official who
agreed to give an exclusive interview with Spolitics.com
because we paid him fifty bucks.
Tip of the Iceberg
But, according to the official whose accusations are so
explosive he asked to remain anonymous, Global Climate
Change research is costing us more than just money. It’s
hurting the environment, too. “For every global warming
study, we lose an acre of rainforest,” said the official. “And
that’s just the tip of the iceberg. For example, we also lose
tens of thousands of squids a year to produce the ink it takes to
print up all these studies, and that does irrevocable damage to
the ecosystem."
Dire Implications
The official didn’t have any proof of his claim, but its
implications are so terrible, they demand we take notice. At
this point, inaction may be more dangerous than action. “The
problem is, in the time it will take to prove whether or not I’m
right, it might already be too late. Something has to be the done
now about the unchecked growth of global warming studies,”
he warns.
A Two-Fold Problem
The problem, according to the official, is twofold. First there
is the expanding definition of the field. “It used to be called
Global Warming. Now we call it Global Climate Change.
Almost anything can fall under that larger, broader title.”
This ever-growing definition of the field itself has led to the
second problem, the explosive number of scientists studying it.
“With such a broad topic as ‘global climate change,’ there are a
lot of studies that can be done, and therefore, a lot of scientists
asking to do those studies.”
Tipping Point
According to the EPA official, it may already be too late. “I
fear we've reached a tipping point where the trend is
irreversible. Scientists are not stupid people. They see their
peers getting large amounts of funding studying Global Climate
Change. They don’t want to be left and so they decide to study
it, too.”
The official predicts that unless we take drastic actions, now,
we may never be able to stop the growth of Global Climate
research, a trend that is sucking billions of dollars from the
national economy and destroying the biosphere.
A Necessary Evil
However, one Democratic senator says the studies are
absolutely necessity. “A lot of people out there, probably shills
of big oil, want us to believe that this isn’t a problem worth
studying,” says the lawmaker who prefers not to be named.
“They try and call us chicken-little alarmists, but the
comparison doesn’t hold up once you consider the facts. The
fact is, we’re not saying that the sky is falling. We’re saying it’
s getting warmer. And that’s a big difference.”
Do We Know or Don't We?
But to the EPA official, it just doesn’t add up. “They all claim
that the science is settled, that global climate change is
happening and that the only way to stop it is to reduce carbon
emissions. If that’s true, then what are they studying?
Apparently we already know the problem and the answer but
we’re still spending billions of dollars a year studying it. It just
doesn’t make sense. And in the meantime, thousands of
species of animals and fauna are being destroyed as a result of
these studies.”
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