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Global Warming, a Brief

Global warming by carbon pollution (CO2 gas emission) is said to be the cause of our strange weather, and that this is something that needs our immediate attention to avert global disaster. This is actually not the case, global warming is not caused by humans and CO2 or anthropogenic emissions into the atmosphere by humans is having little effect on the earth's average global temperature. Just as the scientist uses the scientific methodology so should we in our investigation of the truth of a matter. The Arctic warming which is threatening the Polar bears began at the turn of the 20th century around 1900 (Kaufman). This was at a time when anthropogenic carbon pollution was only at about 30% of what it is today thus eliminating that as the cause of Arctic warming. Recently NASA has tried to support global warming by declaring the melting of the ice over Greenland as evidence, but instead they got caught making up evidence, and thus have damaged their credibility (Kos). This leads us to the question of “Is the atmospheric warming proof that anthropogenic carbon is ruining the earth? If this is so you would think that weather balloons and satellite measurements of the earth's atmosphere would confirm this as fact, but again the answer is no (Miskolczi). Then why the persistence of the idea of global warming? Because it is now a political issue (Taylor). But if earth's atmosphere is able to compensate for the increasing anthropogenic carbon what is the mechanism? Perhaps a clue is found in glaciers, even with warming over the last fifty-years the larger of two glaciers is still growing, because of the latent, lack of warming on the deep inside of the Thompson Glacier, kind of like a heat sink in reverse, causing the glacier to grow (Cogley). It could be our oceans are doing the same for the atmosphere. Therefore even if mankind and his activities are not, at this time, causing global warming when will it be that we have gone too far and have wasted too much time and effort that could well be spent elsewhere (Giaever)?

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