Global Warming's Fever

"The earth has a fever." This was a statementvariances. This is something that has not been
from Nobel Prize winning documentarian, Al Gore.factored into the current Global warming theory.
Increasingly the view of mankind by mankind isIn was noted in 2007 that efforts in the UK to
that of intruder. In many ways it would seemreduce the impact of their human population on
that we are the earth's enemy and our verythe environment did essentially nothing to actually
existence is depleting the earth of resources thathelp in the effort. For every action there is an
could keep an environmental balance. Globalequal and opposite reaction - we've all heard that
warming is the belief that the temperature of thebefore. The 'action' was regulation to effect a
air nearest to earth is consistently rising. Droughtspositive change in CO2 emissions. The 'reaction'
are blamed on global warming and new productswas no change in spite of increased man-hours,
are constantly being developed to help lessennew regulations and general compliance. Would
human impact on perceived climate change.further restrictions stunt technological advances?
Electric or hybrid cars are thought to provide theThere are those who believe global warming is
best example of how we can reduce carbonmuch ado about nothing and remain alarmed that
emissions that are said to be harming the earth.so many changes are being enacted based on a
Every day children are learning about globaltheory with no long-term supporting data. They
warming in school and some are even taking theirare also alarmed that the regulations that are
parents to task for habits that may not bealready in place are having very little impact on a
viewed as earth-friendly. Chlorofluorocarbonsperceived problem. Add to that the fact that
(CFCs) were slowly eliminated when it was2007 was the coldest year on record for the 21st
discovered that chlorine in this common chemicalcentury and you can see why some believe that
compound might be responsible for ozonethe term 'fever' might have been used
depletion in the 1970s. That in turn caused manyprematurely. Some may even wonder if man has
to believe the hole in the ozone was causing theless control over environmental change than we
earth to warm substantially. Obviously globalwould like to believe. I'm certainly not advocating
warming sounds a clarion call to environmentalist,that we act irresponsibly with our natural
but politicians and the education establishmentresources, but from a scientific point of view it is
have also embraced it. Research tends to supportirresponsible to extrapolate an extremely costly
the idea that humans have less to do with climateplan of action from data that does not support
change than livestock and other animals, yet thisthe action. From a logical point of view it makes
is rarely discussed in the global warming debate.perfect sense to replace deforested land with
You should know there are those that believe thenew plant life that can convert CO2 to oxygen. It
theory of global warming may be less dramaticmakes sense from an economic point of view to
than the aforementioned fever. For instance theredecrease gas consumption as gas prices rise.
is no hard scientific data to indicate a long-termFrom a health perspective it makes sense to
warming trend. Where some would espouse thereduce emissions to assist in the decrease of
belief that oceans will rise dramatically as icebergshealth issues. However, when the data doesn't
melt the actual short-term data indicates an airsupport the theory it is either time to adopt a
temperature increase of less than a degree.new theory or at the very least face the facts.
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