Climate Change - Yes, it's real. My position is that it's just part of a very long cycle of warming and cooling trends that have always existed as part of the regulatory system of our planet. Yes, ecosystems are destroyed and species will go extinct, but new species emerge. Over the years in several science classes I learned that the climate millions of years ago during the time of the dinosaurs was much warmer than it is today with more oxygen saturation too. Before humans even existed there was a sudden change in the climate around 1 million years ago and that was the beginning of the Ice Age, which ended around 10,000 years ago. That's a long time in human years, but if you take this into consideration and think of these cycles as being very long it isn't too difficult to conclude that we are still warming from the end of the Ice Age back up to pre-Ice Age temperatures.

Polar bears and penguins are evolutionary results of the Ice Age so it stands to reason that after the Ice Age ends species that evolved as a result could be at risk of extinction as their habitat disappears, but think of all the species that went extinct as the result of the Ice Age. This is what survival of the fittest is all about. Evolution is either going to change them or they'll alter their behavior so they can adapt to their new habitat or it won't and they won't and they'll die out. It's sad, but around 99% of all life that has ever existed on Earth is currently extinct and humans haven't even existed for 1% of this planets existence. So I feel that it's silly to blame ourselves.

Now, I'm not saying what we are doing isn't negatively impacting the environment and I'm not saying that we haven't exacerbated or sped up the process. I just don't believe we are THE cause of it. Arctic ice core samples show that our climate has been on a warming trend since before the first evidence of humans started showing up on the geological table. So the scientific data overwhelmingly suggests that this is just a natural part of Earth's cycle. In fact, today scientists are saying they believe Earth has had many Ice Ages as if to suggest it's a cycle. If Earth is this close to the Sun and we can go through extended cooling periods then perhaps we can go through horrific warming periods too and coincidentally we just so happen to exist at the end of an Ice Age as the planet is warming up. If I'm not mistaken there should be data available projecting when the next Ice Age should hit.

I believe politics have become too involved in this issue.

Mike Pence - Admittedly I don't know a lot about the man, but I do know about the story being passed around the internet that he supports conversion therapy, which is electrically shocking someone who is gay in an effort to make them straight. This has been proven to be false. Do I believe Donald Trump will overturn hundreds of thousands of marriages? No...

Net Neutrality - Donald Trump's position is against allowing terrorist groups like ISIS to have Twitter with millions of followers and just allow them to openly recruit over the internet. This is an issue of national security and it should be handled accordingly. What does this have to do with you and me? Unless you're sympathetic to ISIS and their cause... not much...

Edit - I combined these two posts.

Climate Change 2 - I noticed that I didn't complete my thoughts on climate change and I apologize for that. Many young YouTubers have posted their reactions to the election results and many of them rant about us just voting in a guy who doesn't believe in climate change. If you read my thoughts on climate change then you can probably come to the conclusion that I don't believe there's anything we can really do. If we replaced all of the dirty technology contributing to pollution I do not believe we would see a change other than perhaps a reduction in the speed of the process.

I think it all boils down to the fact that we don't want to believe we're powerless. The reality that we are on a speck of dust hurling through space at many miles per second and no one is in control is scary to most people. So when the subject of climate change comes up instead of being honest they decide to blame someone for it because that's easier to cope with than reality.

Let's say we did replace dirty technology and it did noting just as I say. The way the left would present it is that we stopped our dirty ways too late. There were just too many uneducated people unwilling to change. So even the evidence that they are incorrect will be used as "proof" and a way to blame someone.

As I've said previously what we are doing isn't good, but as these technologies are replaced don't be surprised if global warming doesn't go away and don't be surprised if scientists say we were too late. Of course, in the future humans will have to deal with thousands of years of lower temperatures as a cooling tend sets in just before the next Ice Age comes. They'll probably claim it's our fault again. We made the environment too clean and not enough carbon in the atmosphere is allowing too much heat to escape. lol

Mike Pence 2 - What the LGBT community needs to know.

While running for Congress, Indiana governor Mike Pence called for state funding for "institutions" working to enable people to "change their sexual behavior."

CLAIM: Mike Pence supported "gay conversion" therapy, which involves the use of electroshock therapy.

WHAT'S TRUE: Mike Pence once supported the use of federal funding to treat people "seeking to change their sexual behavior."

WHAT'S FALSE: Pence never stated that he supported the use of electric shocks or "gay conversion" therapy.

Source: Snopes.com