Global Warming: Skeptics Unite

That distinctive title would belong to water vapor, which is responsible for 95% of the earth’s greenhouse effect, whereas carbon gets 3 of the last 5% (Michaels). So let’s all stop showering and flushing the toilet, and next time I see little kids all swimming and evaporating water all over the place I’ll bust them in the eye for environmentalists everywhere. I’m not a card-carrying climatologist, but my bet rests safely on carbon emissions being the least of our problems nowadays.

It’s interesting to see how so many of these issues do not fit into a theory of global warming. If the earth is getting warmer, and man is the cause in recent years due to increased carbon output, why aren’t all deserts spreading, why aren’t all glaciers melting, why aren’t sea levels rising much faster than they have been for the past few thousand years, and why do so many reputable scientists vehemently claim the exact opposite? Check the facts for yourself, please. Don’t accept anything I say in this paper as official doctrine, and at the same time don’t discount what I’m saying as rubbish without at least first checking. There is nothing worse than someone with a closed mind, and I personally have a lot of respect for someone willing to change their own opinion when presented with new evidence.

There is no need to worry about global warming. The earth is warming independent of man’s actions, and will do so for long after our children’s children have lived full lives. Likewise, whatever we do to combat global warming will either have no effect at all, or will have other unintended consequences which could prove even more harmful. Look at man’s bleak track-record regarding the management of land. Yellowstone, our first national park, is a prime example. Due to man’s complete inadequacy in managing land, Yellowstone is now devoid of many animals that once populated the area (Baden), to include the white-tailed deer, mountain lion, lynx, bobcat, wolverine and fisher cat. The Rocky Mountain gray wolf is now extinct. That’s just sad. Equally depressing is the state of the media we rely on for our information.

All I can say is thank God for the internet, because watching the nightly news is all about cramming shaky information into thirty-second sound bites designed to grab your attention, with little emphasis on checking facts or reporting objectively. Global warming is a prime example. Next time a headline shoots across the screen, check out the words they use. Catastrophe, crisis, danger, tragedy, disaster, emergency…Next listen carefully to what they say. Hopefully you’ll challenge what you hear. Dig a little bit, and you’ll be surprised what you find when you do.