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Global Warming: Friend or Faux? By: NotAtLiberty2Say

People running from their homes because the sea level is rising, covering whole

cities and devastating lives. This is not a major reality because the earth is not getting

hotter but this heating is from the climate patterns of the planet earth. The planet

has been through these stages many times and if you go back millions of years

one could find that the earth has done this before and one example would be the ice age,

when the earth was covered in ice. Then the time right after the ice age that warmed up

and melted the ice was technically a heat wave much like we have today

and dinosaurs and other creatures did not build big factories and burn fossil fuels!

Even when the human population started building big factories there were situations that

resembled current day "Global Warming" but we did not have a government scaring

people by lying about the "major" impacts of Global Warming like the melting of

Antarctica, Which is actually getting bigger based on tv news stories that cover the

endevours of scientists. Also the United States of America is currently

going through a depression and if we had most of the money back that we have spent

trying to prevent global warming and to lessen the burning of fossil fuels we would have

more money and that would mean that the depression would be nonexistent or just not as

bad.

It has been proven that the Earth goes through periods of warming and cooling (see

Figure 1-1) "Earth's climate was in a cool period from A.D. 1400 to about A.D. 1860,

dubbed the "Little Ice Age." This period was characterized by harsh winters, shorter

growing seasons, and a drier climate. The decline in global temperatures was a modest

1/2° C, but the effects of this global cooling cycle were more pronounced in the higher

latitudes. The Little Ice Age has been blamed for a host of human suffering including

crop failures like the "Irish Potato Famine" and the demise of the medieval Viking

colonies in Greenland."(Earth's, Geocraft) This section shows that Earth goes through

stages of warming and cooling which can be attributed to the suspected signs of Global

Warming. Man-made pollution may be causing something but it is definately not global

warming because "The idea that man-made pollution is responsible for global warming is

not supported by historical fact. The period known as the Holocene Maximum is a good

example-- so-named because it was the hottest period in human history. The interesting

thing is this period occurred approximately 7500 to 4000 years B.P. (before present)--

long before humans invented industrial pollution." (Idea, Geocraft) So many people think

that Earth cannot cool itself because they think that the atmosphere is filled with so

much greenhouse gas that the air cannot cool due to the constant heat input by the sun

and that is very untrue because Earth has its very own air conditioner known as

Antarctica and besides cooling the air it also removes humidity as well. (Sommers, 2007)

Recently there have been freak storm supposedly caused by "Global Warming" and this is

what Stien said "Storms are naturally occuring events in the earth's atmosphere. It's

normal for the weather to be stormy, at least some of the time." and also "Extratropical

cyclones and thunderstorms may be getting wetter as the warming atmosphere gains

humidity. However there's no evidence yet that winter storms, tornadoes, or extratropical

cyclones have been growing more powerful over time." (Stein, 2001) The weather events

that have brewed over the last couple of years probbably were not even affected by

Global Warming because "One drought or freak weather event may not be caused by

global warming." (Morgan, 2003) Amazingly there is also evidence that disproves the

theory that Antarctica is melting for instance "Global Warming has had almost no effect

on the Antarctic continent becuase of the frigid temperitures of East and West Antarctica

(-70 Degrees F/ -57 Degrees C). (Sommers, 2007)

The Earth is our planet and we should take care of it but cutting big businesses

ability to make products because of pollution that “supposedly” caused Global Warming

causing businesses to close down because of the loss in their revenue and all that does is

hurt our economy. The United States of America was once a grand place that filled the

dreams of the people living in other countries but now it is mearly a pimple on the face of

the earth and a dump in the eyes of the people. Even in lieu of the current economy the

government still pours money into environmental issues when they should focus on the

second great depression happening in our country!