Solar Cooling, Global Warming

Sun spots. We learned about them in high school science classes and if you were one of the fortunate, you also learned about it in elementary school. A group of scientists are worried about the current activity on the sun [read article]. There are no sunspots on the sun. Nothing, Nada, ZIP! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! DOOMSDAY is nigh! *ahem* Sorry about that...uh...force of habit.

While scientist worry about this, I want to talk about how this may affect our current agenda and that's dealing with global warming. If the sun cools down during a period we are in a serious crisis of polluting ourselves, they might cancel the conceptions of the ill informed. I don't have to remind you that there are those in the U.S. - possibly in certain parts of the world - that don't believe in global warming or as I like to call it 'We're screwed if we don't do anything'. My stance on finding alternatives for energy is this: What we do now affects the future; much like how if I smoke now, and it doesn't kill me my future children may die from lung cancer [if you think that's bullshit watch Ghost in your Genes].

We are in need of a energy revolution. What worked in the industrial revolution will not work for us, because the after effects of that revolution affected us quickly than we expected. With new and cleaner alternatives, jobs will be created. We can finally learn to work with nature instead of against it as we did in the past and are still doing now. While I can acknowledge that there are some improvements that have happened within this decade, we need to take a giant leap and do a switch soon. There have been reports on cars that run on compressed air, and even as far as using algae fuel or bio-diesel.

Yes, I know a little about economics and if the world quickly turned tails on oil, the economy would go in the dumps. Well we are slowly, but surely in the dumps and it's not due to the depletion of oil, but because of U.S. strain in the middle east. I do not trust corporations and oil companies are the worst of the worst. There really needs to be a different rhetoric in the energy business, because this current model is choking us to death in more ways than one.

So let's put this in to perspective and summarize shall we? The sun, our cosmic source of energy, is a good clean source of energy [although it does give skin cancer, but that's if you stay in its rays too long]. Oil, the blood of the world, that corporations and government try to control and thus control the people. New energy alternatives, provides an energy revolution, more jobs and allows us to find an equilibrium with the world. At our current rate we are killing the world and our selves. The sun is in a - scientist worrying - cooling stage and I think this will send waves of animosity to those who find global warming bullshit and, even worse, cause Christian groups to cause a mass panic. I don't know what's worse dying a slow death or having Christians scream that everyone should repent... or dying slow while Christians scream that everyone should repent! That's a hair puller ain't it?