During the past few weeks I have researched global warming and the evidence to prove that it is real and is a threat to our long term survival on this planet. There is a lot of strong evidence that global warming is real, but there is actually alarming facts that prove that it may not be as real as many politicians, environmentalists, and tree huggers want to believe.
According to the American Policy Center, global warming is a big joke, and "the biggest hoax ever perpetrated on the people of the world". When I first read this quote I was very interested in how they could back up such a strong statement. But they actually do it very well. This center points out the fact that indeed the polar ice caps may be melting but in all reality they have been constantly melting ever since the end of the ice age. At one time, the majority of the planet was consumed by ice, now the Earth is going through a natural climate change in which the ice caps are exposed to warmer tempuratures.
Another main factor scientists point at as evidence for global warming is the ackward weather trends the planet has been experiencing: violent hurricanes, tornadoes, severe floods and exceptional droughts. Some of this disastrous weather may actually be the work of a phenomenon called "El Nino." During El Nino there is a disruption in the pattern of the ocean's currents. This periodical process consists of ackward weather habits that become normal due to a rise in the tempurature of the ocean waters. This is a reason for the hurricanes, tornadoes, and either heavy or lack of rain.
Still other factors may prove that the Earth does go through periodical climate changes. Fossils of Alligators were discovered in western North Dakota which presents the fact that North Dakota was once a warm environment. Alligators are reptiles, which are cold blooded and need to live in a warm place. Obviously these animals would not survive in present-day North Dakota because it is to cold for them to survive. It is a pretty clear indicator that the Earth has gone through these changes before, maybe we are just experiencing something similiar? Only time will tell!
References:
http://www.americanpolicy.org/
http://www.nd.gov/hist/news/ndhistorypaleoissue.htm
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Hey Bryon! Thank God you wrote about Global warming not being real because I myself have been so double-minded ever since I started this project. When I want to believe Global Warming is real, I always bump into a research or writing explaining that global warming is nothing but a joke. Although, I must say that this week I wrote about "Melting Glaciers." I do not know if you have read it yet or not, but it explaing how the glaciers have started to melt faster than usual. I saw that you wrote something about glaciers melting and that shouldn't be a big deal because its normal. However, as I have been researching about melting glaciers, I actually found some facts that I would like to share with you to back up what I am saying. According to LiveScience Senior writer Robert Roy Britt, Half a century ago, most Antarctic glaciers that flowed from the mountains to the sea were slowly growing in length, Cook said, "but since then this pattern has reversed. In the last 5 years the majority were actually shrinking rapidly." Along with that quote, I also found another passage from "Science Daily" discussing how the glaciers are melting much faster than they should: "Some growing and shrinking is normal for glaciers, and debris-rimmed lakes within some glaciers may come and go. Despite these fluctuations, glaciers usually maintain their size over the long term. But Wessels has seen a shift in the balance of this cycle. "At first glance, there's more shrinkage than growing," he says, "and there's now a trend for the lakes to stay and grow," rather than drying up or freezing over"(Wessels 2001).
References:
http://www.livescience.com/environment/050421_glacial_retreat.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/05/010529235344.htm
Another interesting post. But be careful, some of the sources used here, like the "American Policy Center"--have other agendas. Would you believe the information if you knew they were a *very* far-right think tank, whose goal is to protect property rights over the environment (among other goals)?
This is exactly the reason I'd suggest doing some background digging on any ".org"--the information sounds reasonable, but the agendas behind it are purely maerialistic. Who should we really get our science facts from?
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