Despite the evidence of the planet wide effects of global warming, many still believe global warming to be just another way to give funding back to scientific researchers. The issue at hand is of great importance, and will continue to alarm Americans so long as it is not resolved. Global warming leaves many asking the question, Is the top of the world melting?
Time is running out, stabilizing global warming does not happen over night, and it is to late to stop it completely. The change in climate has been attributed directly to natural, and human activity such as cars burning fossil fuel, power plants, and chemicals such as methane, nitrous oxide and many other gases that trap solar heat. All of these contribute to the global greenhouse effect and this is what causes Global Warming. Because of the rising temperature, due to global warming, the arctic is melting. If we do nothing, by the end of the century, we can expect to see a dramatic raise in sea levels. Today, this is already occurring, forcing many to move to higher levels of land. Imagine how it will be years from now. If the temperature continues to rise, many animals will be extinct and the ecosystem will be severely affected.
All humans should acknowledge that the threat of global warming is increasing with every minute nothing is done. It is up to each inhabitant of Planet Earth to take initiative and attempt to understand global warming, in order to stabilize it. The severity of this issue is real. Our nation is contributing, in all possible ways to saving our beautiful planet, however this is not enough. Some may never recognize the real cause of global warming, be it man made, or natural hazards, but in time, when our ecosystem has turned against us, maybe then will mankind wished they had done more.
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By and large, I agree with your stance on Global Warming, Texas Girl, however, I think we need to take a close look at those who think it's a load of malarchy and why they feel that way.
In short, it's lack of foresight. You'll find that most people you run into on the street can barely see past the ends of their noses, metaphorically speaking. When they walk outside on a chilly April morning in Texas, they say to themselves "Global Warming my rosy ass!" and write it off as Liberal-Hippie-Horse-Hockey (or the L-Triple H).
The real problem with global warming has to do with overall average temperatures of the planet and more specifically the rate of change.
It's easy to find right-wing mouthpieces who readily state that the Earth has encountered these temperatures before - and it has, many times. When it changes gradually, evolution can keep up and adaptive species' can emerge to keep on keepin' on.
It's never changed this rapidly in the entire history of the planet, and the rate of species extinction has only reached this levels 5 times in the past, two were associated with giant meteor impacts, and all 5 were considered Global-Killer events.
We're currently riding the wave of #6, good times.
Sadly, a lot people won't wake up until it's too late, and it's their selfishness and foolishness that could endanger all of us. The best you can do is educate yourself and then educate the masses. If they're too stupid to be educated, then apply social pressure. Notice how it's becoming cooler to drive a Prius than it is to drive a Pick-up? One carries more social status with a WholeFoods bag than with an HEB bag?
Buy an Aptera, convince people their sexy and the world can be changed for the better.
(For verification of these numbers and statistics, talk to Professor George Staff at ACC Northridge. Better yet, take his class - you probably need the natural science credit anyway.)
The main flaw in your argument is one of basic science. To illustrate this, let's imagine a glass that has some ice floating at the top. Now, if you were to mark the level of the water before AND after the ice melted, what would you find? That the level of the water didn't change, as long as the ice is actually floating on the water and isn't pushed below the surface by other ice cubes. This is basic scientific principle of density, that the mass of the object equals the mass of displaced fluid, or in other words, the expansion of the ice is negated by the fact that some of the ice floats outside of the water.
What is the point of this illustration? To show one major point, that even if ALL of the northern Ice melted, the oceans wouldn't rise one inch!!! Why?? Because the VAST majority of the northern ice is FLOATING on the sea. Yep, which is one basic principle that is completely ignored in the doomsday prophets of global warming. Now, I don't deny that the earth is experiencing a warming trend. However, whether the cause of this warming trend is actually the effects of humans or just the natural up-side of the warming and cooling trends that occur naturally as the years progress. However, you might point to all these scientific numbers and specifics. However, my response is that science has just really reached the level necessary to take incredibly accurate readings in just the past few decades. Why are these past few years the warmest on record? Very possibly because we lacked the equipment to accurately record global warming and cooling trends in the past.
One word of advice before I’m finished. Just remember that the government was trying to scare us with a “global cooling” story, which it abandoned in the 1970’s for the new “Global warming” story.
However, instead of just throwing the ideas of high school students (me) and college students (y’all) around, lets at what Dennis Avery, who is a senior fellow for Hudson Institute in Washington, DC has to say. I would definitely say he was more credible that us, considering that he was formerly a senior analyst for the Department of State.
http://acuf.org/issues/issue62/060624cul.asp
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