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August 10, 2005
Global Warming? Fact of Fiction...
I'm on the road today heading to Accuweather in State College PA. It's smack in the center of Pennsyania, the middle nowhere. It took about four hours to get here, and I was speeding.. I thought a good topic today would be global warming... Everyone has their own opinions, and I have mine. I find it very hard to believe that some of us really don't think that global warming is occurring. For years and years we have been burning fossil fuels -- oil, coal and gas-- to generate electricity and for power for our cars. It is a no brainer that these produce the heat-trapping gases that cause global warming. Consequently, the more we burn, the greater acceleration of global warming. The Earth can't have the capacity to clean up all of these toxins. All of these gases have to go somewhere and they create a "windshield" in our atmosphere, creating excess heat. I was reading up on the national defense council and they say "Average temperatures in the Arctic region are rising twice as fast as they are elsewhere in the world. Arctic ice is getting thinner, melting and rupturing. For example, the largest single block of ice in the Arctic, the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf, had been around for 3,000 years before it started cracking in 2000. Within two years it had split all the way through and is now breaking into pieces".
According to the Union of concerned Scientists, they state evidence that human-induced global warming is real cannot be ignored.Here's what they found.
-Since the beginning of the 20th century, Earth's mean surface temperature has increased by about 1.1°F.
-Over the last 40 years, which is the period with the most reliable data, the temperature increased by about 0.5°F (0.2-0.3°C).
-Warming in the 20th century is greater than at any time during the past 400 to 600 years.
-Seven of the 10 warmest years in the 20th century occurred in the 1990s. In fact, the hottest year since reliable instrumental temperature measurements began was 1998, when global temperatures spiked due to one of the strongest El Niños on record.
And on top of that, whats up with all the excessive heat this summer?
What do you think?
Posted by Jeff at August 10, 2005 09:43 AM
Comments
The incremental catastrophe of climate change brings tears to my soul.
Posted by: john p at August 10, 2005 12:56 AM
GLOBAL WARMING IS NOTHING MORE THAN A HOAX, PERPETRATED ON US BY DA MAN!
THERE IS DOCUMENTED PROOF, THAT NO CHANGE IN GLOBAL TEMP HAS OCCURRED. ITS ALL ABOUT THE INSURANCE COMPANIES LOOKING TO INCREASE THE PREMIUMS ON WATERFRONT HOMES.....
DONT FALL FOR IT, GO OUT AND BUY A HUMMER!!!!!
Posted by: DAVE at August 10, 2005 04:01 PM
Thanks. I forgot it was a hoax there for a minute. I'm feeling better now and will go buy some gasoline as it is my patriotic duty to consume. We ARE at war, you know.
Posted by: john p at August 11, 2005 12:05 AM