I have no story to link to, this is based on a TV show I watched last night. It was an extremely informative discussion on volcanoes (there are four types), the worst volcanic eruptions in earthly history (about five), and what happened after a few of those erupted during the time of present-day man. One of those big volcanic eruptions during the time of present-day man was one that erupted in Indonesia in 1815. The Tambora volcano is the largest volcanic eruption ever recorded by 'modern' man. On April 5th, 1815, a moderately large explosion spewed enough ash into the air to travel 900 miles. An even larger eruption occurred over 2 days, April 10th and 11th. This eruption spewed 1,765,733,328,611 cubic feet (yes, you are reading that correctly) of magma onto the earth. The result? The earth experienced two years without a summer. There were reports of ice and snow in Connecticut in JULY. Crop and livestock damage was widespread. Tambora's volcanic cloud lowered global temperatures by as much as 3 degrees Celsius (about 5 degrees Fahrenheit). People were miserable; 92,000 people died of starvation. Fast forward to 2050... if the wildest, highest predictions of so-called global warming come true, the earth's temperature will increase by about 4 degrees. I have to say, yeah? So? What if it went the other way? What if we were going into an ICE AGE? Ask yourselves, people, would you rather live during an ice age or a warming period? Would you rather have your crops frozen, or your ice caps melted? Don't forget...those 92,000 people died of starvation from a one-time event; it was not a permanent average temperature change. Imagine how many would starve with frozen crops if it had been permanent. One of the solutions being proposed to "combat" the warming of the earth is to spew pollution into the atmosphere to block the sun, just as a volcano does. Okay people...do you want 2 years of your life with no summer? With icicles dripping off your roof in July? Of frozen crops and frozen livestock? Why don't we all just accept the fact that the earth has warmed and cooled and warmed and cooled throughout the entire history of earth, and maybe we're contributing to a warming period and maybe, just MAYBE, we're stopping the next ice age! Why is it that liberals think A) They can control everything in the universe with enough liberal thinking and B) That just because the earth is warming it MUST have been caused by human input as opposed to normal cyclical changes and C) Why can't they see that warming is a much, MUCH better to the alternative so even if we did cause the earth to warm a few degrees, we're lucky? Huh?! Can a liberal whackadoo out there splain to Loocy how a cooling earth would be better? For anyone? Even their beloved plants and animals that would freeze to death? Animals and plants fare MUCH better in warmth! How many polar bears are there? How many places for it to live? And then, how many species in a rain forest? See people? Animals and plants will fucking THRIVE in a warming period (okay, the polar bears won't make out so good...but you can't save all the starfish in the sea, see?). We will DIE in an ice age...just ask the woolly mammoths and the dinosaurs how much they liked the ice age. MKay?