More on global warming
Perhaps I should allow this topic to die, but I am unable to do so. Since I wrote an editorial on global warming two weeks ago, I have talked to several people who feel there is no such thing. I have no wish to argue with anyone over the reality or the fiction of this topic, however, I am going to.
Democrats and liberals have been preaching the effects of global warming for years, but recently even the Bush administration has jumped on board. The Bush administration has admitted that polar bears are in danger of extinction due to melting ice on the arctic sea, going so far as to say it is a direct result of global warming. There is a concerted effort being made to put the polar bears on the endangered species list as a result.
I have heard many arguments over the past weeks. People have many explanations for the recent weather and why global warming is not really an issue at all, however, I cannot believe that 73 degree temperatures in Central Park in the beginning of January is a natural occurrence. It is true that throughout history, temperatures have fluctuated, but is that really reason enough to stick our heads in the sand and say it has nothing to do with the huge hole in the ozone layer and the amount of damaging green-house gas emissions released into the atmosphere each year.
I’m not trying to preach or to convince everyone to become tree-hugging environmentalists. I just think it is important to be aware of what is going on in the world around us. Numerous scientists, who know much more than I, are convinced that global warming is having a serious effect on the planet, and now that the Bush administration, who has denied the severity of the issue throughout their entire tenure of office, has jumped on the band wagon, I see little reason to deny the likelihood of this concept.
January 12th, 2007 at 9:22 am
Don’t let this topic die, Jessica! It’s too important and people need to be made aware.
While it’s true that there is a natural fluctuation in the climate, which goes up and down in a predictible cycle, that up and down has remained stable for 650,000 years. Until recently, that is. If you charted it out it would look like an EKG strip–up, down, up, down, with spikes and dips, but you could draw a line through the center of those wavy lines, and that line would be a straight one, remaining level.
For the past 50 years, though, that line has gone up, higher and higher and higher. Yes, there are still the usual spikes and dips, but the spikes get higher and the dips, not as low, so if you drew a straight line through the center of the spikes and dips for the past fifty years, that line would slope sharply upward, until it shot off the charts.
This is not a natural fluctuation. There has never ever been as much CO2 in our atmosphere as there is today, and the global temperature increases in direct proportion.
Anyone who’s open minded enough to want to know the facts before forming an opinion should absolutely watch AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH. (It’s on Pay Per View as I write this.) The science, the graphics, the charts and the studies presented in that piece really make the case and leave no room for argument.
Visit www.climatecrisis.net for more information.
February 27th, 2007 at 7:36 pm
It’s a bunch of crap. What about the record snows in New York in the month of February 2007. It’s been the coldest February in Texas history. It’s all a bunch of liberal hype intended to scare the American public and to justify the existence of idiots like Al Gore, who spends $30,000 a year on electricity as he flies around in a Gulfstream jet. Quite the conservationist.
February 27th, 2007 at 7:37 pm
my opinion