Global Warming: A Way for Al Gore to "Go Green"
This morning, on my way in to school, I was flipping around the stations, and I came across a woman talking about global warming. She was in the middle of a debate with the host of the show regarding the current issue in the realm of global preservation. I could tell the woman was insistent on her stance, but had very little scientific proof to back up her theories that human actions were causing the heating up of the Earth's temperature. I'm not sure what tipped me off to this assumption. It may have been, she sounded like a guest star on an old episode of "Hee Haw". Or, it could have been sentences she used such, "Global warmin isjuster big ol rottern mess. We needsta quit emitten carburn dimoxide or whatevur those science folk call urt." I'm not sure. That might have been the deal breaker.
This woman strongly supported the theories of global warming, and was calling the host of the show uneducated ( takes one to know one) and closed minded for not believing in the theories. However, she could put forth no proof that such theories that have been presented by Al Gore and his resent movie are true. The only proof the woman could present was, how cold the winters were when she was a child, and there just weren't winters like that anymore. This, I'm afraid is hardly scientific proof.
I personally am on the side of the host. I fully believe that the earth is and will continue to go through phases. However, it is not from the actions of humans. While it is important for us to be good stewards of what God has given us to oversee, it is very arrogant of us to think that any actions of ours could completely destroy an Earth that we could never create. Furthermore, I believe that it makes since to think that Earth is more probably in the middle of some sort of temperature fluctuation, rather than a planet destroying temperature alteration. There are plenty of cycles the earth goes through every year. They are these really scientific things called seasons. No one freaks out when it starts to get warmer in the spring, or when it starts to get colder in the fall. Who's to say the Earth isn't going through some Global season to balance itself out. But oh no, we in our infinite wisdom and faith in Al Gore, just know that Earth is heating up and going to blow up into oblivion.
An Inconvenient Truth, the movie produced by Mr. Gore continues to be refuted by climatologists all across the world, and further evidence of non-warming trends. Why just this summer, Alaska recorded its coldest summer ever. That sure sounds like global warming to me. Mr. Gore, here is the "inconvenient truth". Many today are discussing ways to go green, and you conveniently found a way to "go green". You found a way to go a billion dollars green. That's real green. Mr. Gore's company, GIM, was specifically established to take advantage of new technologies and solutions related to combating global warming. Not to mention the money he would make from the release of his documentary
Global warming is simply a money making ploy. So please, you liberals out there don't call me the unenlightened one. You are the one that's being dooped, so some goofball can make a buck.
Labels: Al Gore, Global Warming, Going Green
posted by Garrett @ 6:42 AM
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I admit I am no expert on climatology. I have never taken a class on it, and most of my perceptions on the issue have been molded by politically slanted speech from either the left or the right. Heck, I haven't even seen An Inconvenient Truth. However, I would consider myself to have an inclination for science in general. One thing I can say that should be true in any field dealing with science and discovery is to let the data do the talking. From the data that I have seen, I don't see how anyone can argue that the earth has not been getting warmer. The issue is what is the cause of the trend. Do humans have anything to do with it? Is it caused by something else on earth? And if it is caused by humans, what can or should we do to stop it? These are all important questions that we must face.
One of the problems that has faced scientific discovery through history is that people who have no knowledge in the matter are the ones who make policy or are the ones holding power. An example is the Catholic Church holding Galileo under house arrest and ordering him to recant his heliocentric view of the universe. Of course this view was later proven correct and eventually the church had to soften its take on the issue. The church had no evidence against a heliocentric view, just a religious dogma that they stood by. Further, science seems to get attacked today any time the word evolution comes up, even if it is used in a context where intelligent design is neither refuted nor supported. We have seen examples of one species producing several different species over time. It isn't magic. But those who have good intention, but are uneducated on the matter refuse to accept new ideas or learn about the matter, given the new information.
Now back to global warming. What do we know? We know that the earth's surface temperature has increased over the past few decades. So has global warming taken place? Of course. Now we tackle the issue of why. Is the jury still out on this one? Probably. But let's let the jury be made up of people who spend their lives investigating the causes. If I want a nice car to drive around in, I will go to a car dealership who sells cars made by car manufacturers. Car manufacturers know what they are doing. Thousands of people have spent their lives trying to figure out how to build a dependable vehicle. I would not go to my doctor to have him build me a car. If I want my kid to get vaccinated, I will probably ask my child's pediatrician for the vaccine. Many people today are convinced that vaccines are causing autism and many other diseases. However Vanderbilt and many other research organizations have conducted numerous studies spending billions of dollars to see what the connection is and how strong the correlation is between vaccines and autism. After all that time and money, they found no correlation whatsoever between rates of autism and vaccines. Yet many times I have turned on the news or a radio show and heard a few anecdotes and a good dose of hysteria about the dangers of vaccines. No data though.
My long-winded point in this is applicable to both sides of the argument. Instead of listening to politicians or to talk show hosts, let's read the scientific literature ourselves and make our minds after we have the real facts. If humans are creating the increase in temperature, explain to me how. If the earth is in a normal warming cycle, show me the evidence. If the data is correct and it clearly points to humans as the cause, then we must find ways to change our course. If the data is good and shows a normal global cycle, we should be prepared to accept that as well.
Excellent points, sir. I would agree everyone is to make up their own mind based on fact, and each should decide what should be done about it.
As for me, I have not been presented enough un-refutable evidence to agree that human activity has caused an increase in overall global temperature. However, I can not present evidence for my theory of global fluctuation either. Instead, I simply offer it as a theory that can join other theories that have been offered as well.
An underlying point of mine is this. To those people that feel deeply content on believing the theories of global warming, do not think yourself more educated of enlightened when you can not present evidence that hasn't been refuted by thousands of educated professionals in such fields as science. And that comment isn't directed at you Mr. Langdon. It is just a comment for people in general.
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