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Global warming is a natural phenomenon and has been taking place over years and years. Recently in last decade it has become threatening ad people are more aware about it. The reason is recently there has been a rise in the rate of global warming. Global warming primarily is the effect of greenhouse effect. Let us understand what greenhouse effect is all about. The main source of light and natural energy to earth is sun. Almost half of the suns energy in rays is absorbed by earths surface. Earth in return, radiates back this energy in form of infrared rays. Now, when this heat is absorbed by greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and gets trapped, it results in global warming. Global warming is the increase in the temperature of earth and its surface all across. The main contributor of carbon dioxide in atmosphere is power plants. These power plants burn fossil fuels and coal to generate power. Burning coal is the main contributor of carbon dioxide. With rise in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere the gas absorbs more and more heat around and thus increases the global warming. The major threat from global warming is global climate change. Climate change can be life threatening also if people living in that area are not able to cope up with it. Glaciers around the globe are melting. Melting glaciers actually means rise in the sea level. If we think about it, then the rise in sea level in itself can pose a lot of threats to human kind. First and foremost, it can be a dangerous thing for all the tows and places near coastal areas. The life of people at such places can be in danger. Secondly, with rise in sea water level, there is threat to the ground level. When mixed with ground water, sea water can be a threat to the drinking water. Scarcity of drinking water in itself can result in lot of chaos.

With change in climate around the world, there will be more of natural calamities. Natural calamities like floods, droughts, cyclones, volcanoes etc. World will suffer a lot if global warming is not fought against today itself. We can also decrease the effect of global warming by controlling it. It can be done by a lot of things which we as individuals can start at home. Things like planting more and more trees around. Planting more trees will not just help in avoiding soil erosion. It will also help in releasing live saving gas i.e. oxygen. Apart from this, trees also help us in controlling the greenhouse effect by absorbing greenhouse gases. However, if we look around we hardly find people planting trees. We can easily find people who want to cut trees and use them or use that land. We should also avoid using paper and go for electronic media. This will save trees as well. Usage of plastic bags results in garbage and when this garbage is burnt, it releases more harmful gases in the atmosphere. Related Articles – Global Warming, Climate Change, Greenhouse Gases, Carbon Dioxide, Greenhouse effect, Global Warming Problem, Email this Article to a Friend!Receive Articles like this one direct to your email box!Subscribe for free today!

Global warming is a serious threat, one that cannot be taken lightly. This article delves deeper into global warming and identifies the causes as well as the devastating effects.
Global
warming is primarily caused by an imbalance of the “greenhouse gases.”
Greenhouse gases in of themselves are not malevolent; in fact, the
earth’s atmosphere is essentially a by-product of the greenhouse
effect. The greenhouse effect keeps some of the heat generated on earth
from escaping into space. Without the greenhouse effect and its
corresponding gases, the average temperature of the earth would be
about zero degrees Fahrenheit, and not the current 57 degrees
Fahrenheit. However, numerous scientific institutions have concluded
that the ratio of c02 in the atmosphere, as measured in parts per
million, is much higher than it was during the last 650,000 years, and
is only projected to increase throughout the twenty-first century.The
creation of this extreme amount of carbon dioxide is linked to recent
post-industrial human activities such as deforestation and fossil fuel
combustion. Deforestation is a particularly heavy contributor to global
warming. Trees process carbon dioxide and release oxygen. As forests
are destroyed, this natural processing center is eradicated. Fossil
fuel combustion from the burning of gas, oil, and coal releases a
‘light’ isotope of carbon into the atmosphere.The oceans have
become increasingly acidic from carbon dioxide absorption.
Additionally, the trapped heat causes glaciers to recede, which
increases sea levels. These rapid environmental changes result in the
extinction of wildlife. In the case of the arctic, polar bears are
dwindling. In the Antarctic, certain predatory crustaceans are now
moving into waters that were previously too cold, disrupting and
sometimes outright destroying the ecosystems of the Antarctic sea
bottom.While there are a few other non-human causes of global
warming, such as volcano blasts and solar radiation, carbon dioxide is
the most potent contributor to global warming. Carbon dioxide has one
of the highest ‘radiative forcing’ indexes, meaning that a substantial
amount of energy is retained in an average molecule of carbon dioxide.
Although there are several other gases in the atmosphere that can
actually absorb and trap heat more efficiently than carbon dioxide,
scientists have observed that there is simply more carbon dioxide in
the atmosphere than, for example, methane, which has the highest
radiative forcing index of any gas. Additionally, once carbon dioxide
is released into the atmosphere, it takes an average of one hundred
years, and in some cases, up to 800 years, for it to leave the
atmosphere. Because of this delay, the temperatures currently being
experienced on earth are the result of activities carried out
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If you could vote for a change in climate, would you want a warmer or a colder one?

In my comment on Redens entry (Going Around Town, I said that there is a positive side to global warming. Well here you are.

When we hear the phrase global warming, we always get a gloomy picture of Mother Earth. Scientists point the finger at us humans who are believed to be causing this potentially catastrophic climate change.

Yet another group of academics, experts in the fields ranging from agriculture to medicine, believe that global warming may after all have a positive side to it. After studying the likely consequences for everything from crop yields to human health, they found that a hotter planet brings many benefits and that human beings can adapt perfectly well to it. This belief is a result of repeated analyses of past episodes of dramatic, though not entirely natural, climate change.

Philip Stott, emeritus professor of biogeography at th University of London, said that cold is nearly always worse for everythingthe economy, agriculture, disease, biodiversity. He cited two historical periods where prosperity had been tied to unusually warm periods. They were the so-called Medieval Warm Period between 1100 and 1300 and the Little Ice Age between 1450 and 1870. The latter was characterized by famines, pandemics, and social upheaval.

Scientists at the University of London published a review that pointed out a basic medical fact. In many countries, cold kills far more people each year than heat. For the kind of temperature rise predicted for the UK over the next 45 years, the team estimated that heat-related deaths would rise by about 2000 a year, but that this figure would be dwarfed by a cut in cold-related deaths of 20,000.

In the field of agriculture, adaptabilityhuman or otherwiseplays a crucial role in the improved crop yields and forest cover. Prof. Richard Adams, an agricultural economist at Oregon State University, said that if you take an agronomic model and make conditions hotter and drier, then crop yields go down. But farmers make sure this does not happen. A farmer who sees his crops doing poorly under a drier climate, will plant a more heat-resistant type of crops. Because of this adaptation, another study by Prof. Robert Mendelsohn, an economist at Yale University, crop yield grows by more than 13%.

The ever increasing presence of carbon dioxide in Earths atmosphere may be alarming, but some benefits are attributed to it. Global yields of wheat and rice are expected to rise by 18%, while yields of clover are set to rise by 36%. Global vegetation, in fact, has been enjoying net gains in growth since early 1980s across the whole planet. Even tropical forests and the Amazon are reportedly growing more luxuriant as carbon dioxide levels rise.

Your thoughts?

Source: Readers Digest-Asia, March 2006

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Many of you have read or seen in the news how a lot of the global warming gurus have been skewing climate records to make global warming seem like it is real. These gurus have been making money of their lies for the past 30 years. It is very sad that the mainstream news media has been trying to cover up the fraud of this case. We even get mixed messages from our governments. You are probably with the majority of the people about not knowing what to believe on global warming.

One more serious issue that needs to be talked about that actually effects the world is how people are changing landforms. Global warming facts are not as strong as the facts on the changing of landforms. The changing of land is a lot more alarming. The world should open up their eyes and see what has been going on around them. It has been going on for centuries.

One sad example is the city of New Orleans. Most of New Orleans was swamp land. Major hurricanes can come to show and hurt many people. The swampy land had to change to give people a place to work and live. Levees were built near the ocean or in the ocean to protect the people of New Orleans. The dangers were known ahead of time before this land was changed. People of this city ruined the natural habitat just to live in a spot they desired. Known by some and unknown by most, this city was unsafe to live in. It is unfortunate that this has had a negative impact on the people that lived there.

It is well known that a change in any landform can have negative and positive impacts on people. Changing landforms can have a far more negative impact on the environment. Global warming does not compare to the facts that have been proven with the destruction of landforms. Just take for example when rivers have been changed to benefit people. The change in the flow has hurt many animals and fish. These changes have caused some extinction of important fish and animals.

Another example of changing landforms that has a harmful impact on the world is the cutting down of forests. The destruction of this has caused many animals to die and some animals to become extinct. When listening to news stories we may hear about animals such as owls going on the endangered species list because of their homes being demolished. Another side effect of the forest destruction is there is less trees to clean up the carbon dioxide. If we change our forest our planet can change for the worse.

New Orleans would be a negative impact. Making the lands flat or risen can change winds and their weather patterns. This can cause more rain in an area or even drought. Changing weather is natural but changing landforms can cause unnatural change. Something, we as people, need to think about.

To live and survive, we do need to change landforms. However, we need to really study the effects of changing landforms can have on our environment and world. There are real facts that changing landforms can have negative effects on animals, weather and the environment. There is a lot of doubt among people about global warming. Global warming cannot be trust, so people should focus their attention on saving landforms. Only change what actually needs to changed.

Lynas, Mark Contemporary Issues Companion: Global Warming Shasta Gaughen Greenhaven Press

Viewpoint

Hardly anyone realizes it, but the debate about climate change is over. Scientists around the world have now amassed an unassailable body of evidence to support the conclusion that a warming of our planet-caused principally by greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuel-is under way.

The dwindling band of climate “sceptics”, a rag-tag bunch of oil and coal industry frontmen, retired professors and semi-deranged obsessives, is now on the defensive. Although names such as Fred Singer, Philip Stott and Bjorn Lomborg still appear from time to time in the popular press [in England] and in the United States, their views are notable by their absence from the expert literature.

Meanwhile the world as we once knew it is beginning to unravel. The signs are everywhere, even in Britain. Horse chestnut, oak and ash trees are coming into leaf more than a week earlier than two decades ago. The growing season now lasts almost all year round: in 2000 there were just 39 official days of winter.

Destructive winter floods are part of this warming trend, while in lowland England snow has become a thing of the past. Where I live in Oxford, six out of the past ten winters have been completely snowless-something that happened only twice during the whole 30-year period between 1960 and 1990. The rate of warming has now become so rapid that it is equivalent to your garden moving south by 20 metres every single day.

Change Across Five Continents

In other parts of the world, the signs of global warming are more dramatic. … Researching a book on the subject, I have witnessed major climate-driven changes across five continents, changes that are leaving millions homeless, destitute and in danger.

In Alaska I spent a week in the Eskimo village of Shishmaref, on the state’s remote western coast, just 70 miles from the eastern coast of Russia. While the midnight sun shone outside, I listened as the village elder, Clifford Weyiouanna, told me how the sea, which used to freeze in October, was now ice-free until Christmas. And even when the sea ice does eventually form, he explained, it is so thin that it is dangerous to walk and hunt on. The changing seasons are also affecting the animals: seals and walruses-still crucial elements of the Eskimo diet-are migrating earlier and are almost impossible to catch. The whole village caught only one walrus [in 2002] after covering thousands of miles by boat.

Shishmaref lives in perpetual fear. The cliffs on which the 600-strong community sits are thawing, and during the last big storm 50 feet of ground was lost overnight. People battled 90 mph winds to save their houses from the crashing waves.

I stood on the shoreline [in 2002] with Robert Iyatunguk, the co-ordinator of the Shishmaref Erosion Coalition, looking up at a house left hanging over the clifftop. “The wind is getting stronger, the water is getting higher, and it’s noticeable to everybody in town,” he told me. “It just kind of scares you inside your body and makes you wonder exactly when the big one is going to hit.” In July 2002 the residents voted to abandon the site altogether-a narrow barrier island that has been continuously occupied by Eskimos for centuries-and move elsewhere.

In Fairbanks, Alaska’s main town in the interior, everyone talks about warming. The manager of the hostel where I stayed, a keen hunter, told me how ducks had been swimming on the river in December (it’s supposed to freeze over in autumn), how bears had become so confused they didn’t know whether to hibernate or stay awake, and that winter temperatures, which used to plummet to 40 degrees below zero, now barely touched 25 below.

All around the town, roads are buckling and houses sagging as the permafrost underneath them thaws. In one house, the occupants, a cleaning lady and her daughter, showed me that to walk across the kitchen meant going uphill (the house was tilting sideways) and how shelves had to be rebalanced with bits of wood to stop everything from falling off. Other dwellings have been abandoned. New ones are built on adjustable stilts.

Droughts in China

Scientists have long predicted that global warming will lead in some places to intense flooding and drought. When I visited China in April [2002], the country’s northern provinces were in the grip of the worst drought in more than a century. Entire lakes had dried up, and in many places sand dunes were advancing across the farmers’ fields.

One lakeside village in Gansu Province, just off the old Silk Road, was abandoned after the waters dried up-apart from one woman, who lives amid the ruins with a few chickens and a cow for company. “Of course I’m lonely!” she cried in answer to my rather insensitive question. “Can you imagine how boring this life is? I can’t move; I can do nothing. I have no relatives, no friends and no money.” She was tormented by memories of how it had once been, when neighbours had chatted and swapped stories late into the evenings, before the place became a ghost town.

Minutes after I had left, a dust storm blew in. These storms are getting more frequent, and even Beijing is now hit repeatedly every spring. During an earlier visit to a remote village in eastern Inner Mongolia, not far from the ruins of Kubla Khan’s fabled Xanadu, I experienced an even stronger storm. Day was turned into night as a blizzard of sand and dust scoured the mud-brick buildings. I cowered inside one house with a Mongolian peasant family, sharing rice wine and listening to tales of how the grass had once grown waist-high on the surrounding plains. Now the land is little more than arid desert, thanks to persistent drought and overgrazing. The storm raged for hours. When it eased in the late afternoon and the sun appeared again, the village cockerels crowed, thinking that morning had come early.

Threatened Water Supplies

The drought in north-west China is partly caused by shrinking run-off from nearby mountains, which because of the rising temperatures are now capped with less snow and ice than before. Glacier shrinkage is a phenomenon repeated across the world’s mountain ranges, and I also saw it at first hand in Peru, standing dizzy with altitude sickness in the high Andes 5,200 metres above the capital, Lima, where one of the main water-supplying glaciers has shrunk by more than a kilometre during the past century.

A senior manager of Lima’s water authority told me later how melting ice is now a critical threat to future freshwater supplies: this city of seven million is the world’s second-largest desert metropolis after Cairo, and the mountains supply all its water through coastal rivers that pour down from the ice fields far above. It is the snows that keep the rivers running all year round-once the glaciers are gone, the rivers will flow only in the wet season. The same problem afflicts the Indian subcontinent: overwhelmingly dependent on the mighty Ganges, Indus and Brahmaputra rivers that flow from the Himalayas, hundreds of millions of people will suffer water shortages as their source glaciers
decline over the coming century.

Unless alternative water supplies can be secured, Lima will be left depopulated, its people scattered as
environmental refugees. This is a category already familiar to the residents of Tuvalu, a group of nine coral atolls in the middle of the Pacific. Tuvalu, together with Kiribati, the Maldives and many other island nations, has made its plight well known to the world community, and an evacuation plan-shifting 75 people each year to New Zealand-is already under way.

I saw at first hand how the islands are already affected by the rising sea level, paddling in knee-deep floodwaters during [2002's] spring tides, which submerged much of Funafuti and almost surrounded the airstrip. Later that same evening the country’s first post-independence prime minister, Toaripi Lauti, told me of his shock at finding his own crop of pulaka (a root vegetable like taro, grown in sunken pits) dying from saltwater intrusion. He recalled how everyone had awoken one morning a few years previously to find that one of the islets on the atoll’s rim had disappeared from the horizon, washed over by the waves, its coconut trees smashed and destroyed by the rising sea.

Stopping Climate Catastrophe

However severe these unfolding climate-change impacts seem, they are-like the canary in the coal mine-just the first whispers of the holocaust that lies ahead if nothing is done to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Scientists meeting under the banner of the UN-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have predicted a warming during [the twenty-first] century alone of up to six degrees Celsius, which would take the earth into dangerous uncharted waters. [In June 2003], scientists at the UK’s Hadley Centre reported that the warming might be even greater because of the complexities of the carbon cycle.

The IPCC’s worst-case forecast of six degrees could prove almost unimaginably catastrophic. It took only six degrees of warming to spark the end-Permian mass extinction 251 million years ago, the worst crisis ever to hit life on earth, which led to the deaths of 95 per cent of all species alive at the time.

If humanity is to avoid a similar fate, global greenhouse gas emissions need to be brought down to between 60 and 80 per cent below current levels-precisely the reverse of emissions forecasts recently produced by the International Energy Agency. A good start would be the ratification and speedy implementation of the Kyoto Protocol, which should be superseded after the following decade by the “contraction and convergence” model proposed by the Global Commons Institute in London, allocating equal per-person emissions rights among all the world’s nations.

In the meantime, a network of campaigning groups is currently mobilising under the banner of “No new oil”, demanding an end to the exploration and development of new fossil fuel reserves, on the basis that current reserves alone include enough oil, coal and gas utterly to destabilise the world’s climate. Searching for more is just as illogical as it is wasteful.

Avoiding dangerous climate change and other large-scale environmental crises will need to become the key organising principle around which societies evolve. All the signs are that few in power realise this-least of all the current US administration, which has committed itself to a policy of wanton destructiveness, with control and exploitation of oil supplies a central theme.

We must abandon the old mindset that demands an oil-based economy, not just because it sparks wars and terrorism, but because the future of life on earth depends on leaving it behind.

Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of the Earth’s near-surface air and oceans in recent decades and its projected continuation. Global average air temperature near the Earth’s surface rose 0.74 0.18 C during the past century. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concludes, “most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations,” which leads to warming of the surface and lower atmosphere by increasing the greenhouse effect. Natural phenomena such as solar variation combined with volcanoes have probably had a small warming effect from pre-industrial times to 1950, but a small cooling effect since 1950.

These basic conclusions have been endorsed by at least 30 scientific societies and academies of science, including all of the national academies of science of the major industrialized countries. The American Association of Petroleum Geologists is the only scientific society that rejects these conclusions, and a few individual scientists also disagree with parts of them. An increase in global temperatures can in turn cause other changes, including sea level rise, and changes in the amount and pattern of precipitation resulting in floods and drought. There may also be changes in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, though it is difficult to connect specific events to global warming. Other effects may include changes in agricultural yields, glacier retreat, reduced summer streamflows, species extinctions and increases in the ranges of disease vectors. The term “global warming” is a specific example of the broader term climate change, which can also refer to global cooling. In common usage the term refers to recent warming and implies a human influence. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) uses the term “climate change” for human-caused change, and “climate variability” for other changes. The term “anthropogenic climate change” is sometimes used when focusing on human-induced changes. read more…… For more details on Global Warming visit www.halfvalue.com and www.halfvalue.co.uk For more information on books visit www.Lookbookstores.com Related Articles – global warming, warming, temperature, science, frequency., Email this Article to a Friend!Receive Articles like this one direct to your email box!Subscribe for free today!

Global warming is taking its toll on the world. How much do you know about global warming? Taking a global warming quiz can let you see just how much you know about global warming while allowing you to find ways to help prevent global warming. There are several facts that may surprise you about global warming.

For instance did you know that while natural forces are partly to blame for global warming that people are responsible as well? This piece of global warming trivia is something that is often overlooked. Our own creation of greenhouse gases is contributing to the continued warming of the planet.
When it comes to global warming the fact that China is the largest contributor of greenhouse gases is something else that isn’t very well known. What planets conditions are thought to be the result of too many greenhouse gases? This is another of the global warming trivia questions that are difficult to answer off hand.

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Global warming trivia even extends to the appliances and fixtures in the home. Individual energy consumption can be reduced from sixty to eighty percent by changing a light bulb. Why is knowing this important? There are over a hundred thousand deaths around the world every year due to changes in the atmosphere from global warming.
A global warming quiz can test your knowledge about carbon dioxide and other deadly effects of global warming. Even if all greenhouse emissions were stopped immediately it would still be at least one hundred years before the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was completely gone. There would be decades after the last emission that the effects where felt.
Animals are facing extinction due to global warming and the effects are beginning to be felt in everyday life. Droughts, heat exhaustion, and pollutants are all effects of global warming. The melting ice is contributing to the warming effects by taking away natural cooling methods. Even malaria is believed to increase as the effects of global warming increase.
An interesting fact about global warming is that planes give off fewer pollutants at night than during the day. So by flying at night you can actually reduce your impact on the atmosphere. Another interesting fact is that hybrid cars don’t always get better gas mileage than traditional cars. Global warming costs everyone money since insurance companies pay more out in claims due to disasters, food becomes scarce and crops are not sustainable in some regions.
Brushing up on global warming trivia and taking a global warming quiz can assist you in finding ways to help save the environment.

The shocking truth about the science of global warming is this: It is not due to hydrocarbon use. Fossil fuels have nothing to do with it, in spite of what the media and a Nobel prize winner, Al Gore, claim.

The BBC and Noel Sheppard’s published article on Newsbusters.org reports this: “American Media are virtually guaranteed to not report: A British court has determined that Al Gore’s schlocumentary “An Inconvenient Truth” (video) contains at least eleven material falsehoods.”

1. Melting snows are not evidence of global warming
2. The co-relation of CO2 levels in ice samples and global warming is flawed. CO2 lagged 800 to 2000 years behind the warming.
3. Hurricane Katrina had no possible relationship to global warming
4. Drying up of Lake Chad was not related to global warming
5. Polar bears are not drowned because of global warming (a violent storm caused 4 to die)
6. The warming of the gulf stream will not produce an ice age in Europe
7. Coral reef losses and killing of species on them are not due to global warming
8. Greenland is not in eminent danger of flooding due to ice melt
9. Antarctica ice covering is not shrinking. Evidence shows it increasing.
10. Sea levels are not expected to rise over 20 ft in the next 800 years but rather possibly 16 inches
11. Evacuation of the South Sea islanders to New Zealand was not caused by sea level rises

Stay with me and I can show you scientific facts that clearly refute the notion that hydrocarbon fuels…coal, oil, gas…cause global warming.

A firestorm of controversy arose and the United States was shamefully accused of selfish interests when they did not sign the Kyoto Accord. Actually, both the U.S. and Australia were the most significant countries to refuse signing the Accord. Enormous polluters like China and emerging countries were exempted from compliance until they “catch up” with productions.

It is interesting that arguably the greatest polluter on earth is China. It is so bad there that recently a marathoner died and several other runners were hospitalized due to the toxic pollution. Some long distance runners refused to participate in the 2008 Olympics held in China.

What was the Kyoto Accord? It was basically a meeting of world leaders of whom the majority signed an agreement in Japan. The accord said we should limit, reduce, tax and control the use of hydrocarbons worldwide…due to global warming.

The information furnished to leaders was greatly flawed and should be considered “junk science”, totally without scientific facts or truth. The discussion and the real reason of warming and cooling of the earth were not even allowed at the conference.

Here are some quotes from International authorities on the subject:

1. Professor Richard Lindzen, Dept. of Meteorology, M.I.T. says the global warming movement is really about getting money. “Funding of from 170 million to 2 billion (2000 million) for climate and climate related issues.” (has occurred) Other scientists believe it is purely politicalin order to get fundinga lot of jobs now depend upon the global warming myth.

2. “Anyone who goes around and says that CO2 is responsible for most of the global warming in the 20th century has not looked at the basic numbers.”Professor Patrick Michaels, Dept. of Environment Sciences, University of Virginia.

3. “Polar ice caps are always expanding and contracting”Professor Syun-Ichi-AkasofuDirector of International Arctic Research Center. Gore published data on Arctic ice melt. Since the time Gore reported polar ice shrinkage, the polar caps have recovered the lost ice and then some.
4. Two scientists point out flaws about scientists embracing global warming. Professor Paul Reiter, Pasteur Institute, Paris: “The claim of top 1000 or 2000 scientists (endorsing global warming) is wrongif you look at the bibliography of them.” Professor Richard Lindzen of M.I.T. says: “to build up to 2,500, they have to be reviewers and government people and so on”.

5. The IPCC (the U.N. International Panel on Climate Change) like any U.N. body, is politically driven. The final conclusions are politically driven, the evidence offered was that “a consensus of scientists agreed that planet earth was warming and it was due to the proliferation of hydrocarbons.” The perpetrators of this false information claimed that over 600 scientists agreed that the cause was “increased hydrocarbon usage”. The scientific facts do not support this.

A piece of information that refutes the whole notion that there was an international consensus of scientists was a survey done by scientist Art Robinson of the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine. He polled and received responses of over 22,000 of the scientists. Twenty two thousand disagreed that the global warming was caused by increased hydrocarbon usage. The more recent tally is over 31,000.

Scientist Art Robinson, at the request of the president, first did a report which was published in the Wall Street Journal. There was such a backlash of protest that he then did the survey of more than 22,000 scientists. President Bush then refused to sign the Kyoto Accord, much to the criticism of other world leaders.

The most high profile person who furnished flawed evidence was Al Gore. Unfortunately few people questioned his reporting, based on the information that he presented. He provided a movie, “An Inconvenient Truth”, that “demonstrated” that glaciers were melting so fast that the islanders in the South Pacific were flooded out and had to move to New Zealand.

Here are the facts. In the last 50 years sea levels have risen 3 inches. I cannot imagine any sane person building a home that could be flooded out by only a 3 inch increase of water levels in a 50 year period.

It is true that glaciers in many places are melting. They have been melting for the past 200 years. (Interestingly, they are growing on California’s Mt. Shasta) There is no co-relation of increased melt due to hydrocarbon usage. It started over 200 years ago, long before the large increase of hydrocarbon usage of the past 50 to 100 years.

Scientist Art Robinson says people were “lied to”. There is recorded a 7 inch average annual shrinkage of glaciers in the past 50 years. This rate is not significantly greater than the previous 150 years. In fact, since Gore’s report, the Antarctic polar ice cap has more than recovered.

Al Gore also claimed that the global warming has increased hurricanes…not so according to the U. S. Weather Service records. The records show that basically there is no significant increase in the last 100 to 150 years. Increases and decreases yes, but not a significant trend. Once again Art Robinson says, “a flat out lie”.

What then is the cause of global warming? Scientific evidence supports the fact that solar storms are responsible for the earth’s temperature changes. The earth waxes and wanes in temperature. One thousand years ago the earth was actually 1 degree warmer than it is now. In George Washington’s time it was 1 degree cooler. The average variation over a 3,000 year period is 3 degrees. Over a long period of time there is as much as a 10 degree fluxion in temperatures. Anyone who studies history knows there was a very destructive ice age at one time.

Actually alarmists and nay-sayers who “champion” the environment were successful in stopping construction of nuclear facilities (for power generation) here in the U.S. in the past 30 years. (no new ones developed in 30 years) Japan (the only victim of nuclear bombing) now produces 40% of its power from nuclear plants. France generates over 70% of their power from nuclear. Source: The Oil & Energy Investment Report. (Other reports say 80%. is the figure.) The environmentalists predicted an ice age would again occur due to nuclear proliferation. They have now flip-flopped and claim that global warming will destroy the earth.

Worldwide there are now over 320 nuclear power plants under construction. None are in the U.S.A. China alone has dozens under construction and dozens and dozens more on the drawing board for future construction. Demand for crude oil has skyrocketed throughout the world, while the supply of new crude is diminishing. Worldwide recession has depressed the price of oil but the demand still exceeds supply.

The point is this. The influential media and inaccurate reporting by high profile people scare the populace into believing lies and misrepresentations. Why is this so? It seem clear, it is for perceived economic or political advantage by selfish interests.

The Canadian Minister of Transportation now says that Canada needs to “pull out” of the Kyoto Accord that they signed. He says that in order for Canada to comply it would mean banning all cars and buses from the roads.

It would seem that the U.S. would be even worse off, economically. The typical U.S. urban dweller has multiple cars which would be heavily taxed (if even allowed)… if compliance were made for the Kyoto Accord. It would be disastrous for our civilization in many ways. Do you realize that computers alone use 9% of our electricity? The majority of our electricity comes from hydrocarbons…fossil fuels.

According to Art Robinson the life we live would come to a screeching halt. There would be no travel allowed and there would be a shut down of energy dependent activities…which is almost everything modern…. (assuming the U.S. adopted and complied with the Kyoto Accord)

It is easy to see how modern society would be completely destroyed; plus, this would have little if any effect on global warming. It would not solve the perceived global warming problem. Taxing hydrocarbons would accelerate its demise.

Another flawed premise of global warming was “the huge increase of destructive carbon dioxide”. One of the primary increases of CO2 by man is hydrocarbon combustion. According to U.S. Government statistics, atmospheric concentrations of CO2 have risen 36% since 1750. There is no direct co-relation to hydrocarbon combustion and subsequent co-relation to global warming. The industrial revolution, with high hydrocarbon usage, came in the last 100 years…over 150 years after significant CO2 increases were observed. Likewise global temperatures have only increased slightly since 1750.

According to scientist Art Robinson the earth produces 40,000 giga-tons of CO2 per year. (That’s 40 million tons per year) Mankind produces only 8 giga-tons per year. While this seems like a huge amount, it is only 0.54% of all atmospheric gasses, a minor atmospheric gas. Scientists tell us ninety five percent of the green house gasses are water vapor.

The one fifth of the earth’s CO2… which is that produced by man… is not likely to overwhelm the planet, it has not in the past. In addition to that, the earth needs CO2 because plants use it to produce oxygen. Plants proliferate in a CO2 rich environment because it is their chief raw material. All plants, animals and humans ultimately get their (organic) carbon from CO2.

Dr. Pius Corbyn Climate Forecaster, Weather Action (He instituted a far more accurate weather forecasting paradigm based on sun storms and sun spot changes) Quote: “None of the major climate changes in the past 1000 years can be explained by CO2.”

The same conclusion is echoed by Dr. Ian ClarkDept. of Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa: You “cannot say CO2 causes climate changes: it has not in the past.”

Carbon dioxide is essential to plants and you ultimately get all of your organic carbon atoms from it. CO2 plus chlorophyll plus sunlight produces oxygen…essential to man. Plants need CO2 and animals and humans consume the plants for food. Increases of carbon dioxide actually increase the growth of oxygen producing plants on the earth.

A major premise for Al Gore’s contention that dangerous global warming was occurring proceeded from core ice samples taken from the Artic. They represented hundreds of years by various layers. Entrapped within the ice layers was CO2.

The flaw was this. While CO2 increases were found associated with warming trends, they came after the warming trendas much as 800 to 2000 years later. The CO2 was a result of the warming trend, not the cause of it. CO2 came after the warming occurred.

Indeed as warming of the earth occurs, the sea spews out CO2. (95% of greenhouse gases come in the form of water vapor from the oceans anywayaccording to scientists who research the subject)

Carl Wunsch, oceanographer professor at M.I.T and author of 4 major text books on oceanography explained it: “When you heat the ocean surface it tends to emit CO2when you cool the surface it absorbs CO2.”

There were periods in our history when we had three times as much CO2 as we do nowor periods when we had even ten times as much CO2.

“The IPCC (International Panel on Climate Changes) like any U.N. body is politically driven. The final conclusions are politically driven.” Professor Philip Stott, Dept. of Biogeography, University of London.

Co-founder of Greenpeace, Patrick Moore, says this: “I don’t even like to call it the environmental movement anymore cause really it is a political activist movement. (the environmental movement against global warming) has evolved into the strongest movement there is for preventing development in developing countries.”

“Climate scientists need there to be a problem in order to get funding.” Dr. Roy Spencer, Weather Satellite Team Leader NASA (space program)

You may be wondering why there can be a 800 year lag before the increased CO2 shows up. It is because of the vast area and enormous depth of the oceans.

Here is a summary of the facts and truth that refutes the lies and misrepresentations about global warming:

* Global warming is not occurring because of hydrocarbon usage. Solar disturbances (sun storms) clearly are related to the changes in global temperatures.
* The earth’s temperature has only increased 1 degree in the last 3,000 years.
* The recent temperature increase, and the rate of increase, does not correspond to the increase of hydrocarbon usage. (since 1940, there was a 6 fold increase of hydrocarbons…yet no related increase in global warming)
* The number and quality of hurricanes has not co- related to the increase in global warming.
* Glacial melt does not correspond to hydrocarbon usage.
* Reducing hydrocarbon usage would not stop or change global warming.
* Reducing hydrocarbon usage could destroy our modern society.
* Carbon dioxide produced by man does not destroy our earth, it is not shown to cause global warming.
* The “consensus of 600 scientists” is a fabrication…a lie. This group of 600 was not allowed to comment on the report, nor was discussion at the Kyoto Accord allowed. Some scientists only agreed “that more research was needed” on the subject.
* Over 22,000 scientists agreed that global warming was not caused by hydrocarbon usage.

Don’t misunderstand me. I am not against a clean environment but I see no rationale for limiting hydrocarbon usage. What I see as more important is the control of reckless and unnecessary pollution of toxic wastes into the environment. The U.S. is already addressing this problem with stringent regulation in many areas. Polluters like China should be regulated, not exempted. More can be done, but shutting down U.S. factories and stopping electrical generation will not solve the “perceive global warming problem!

Update 2008: In Stephen Leeb’s Energy World (an investment newsletter) he reports this: “…man-made warming is a hoax. It is simply the biggest farce ever foisted upon mankind in the name of science.”

His newsletter goes on to point out that worldwide the winter 2007-2008 was one of the coldest years since records were kept. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, (NOAA), reports that the ice cover shrunk from 5 million square miles in January 2007 to only 1.5 million square miles by October of 2007. In spite of this, it is now almost back to its original size…all within a year.

Did reduction of hydrocarbon usage cause this? No way! According to Dr. Leeb, the 1997 Kyoto Protocol so incensed scientists at the hijack, in the name of science, by Gore and “authoritative sources”, that they reacted vehemently”. I quote his newsletter again: “To date, 31,072 degreed scientists (9,021 with PhD’s) have signed a petition firmly denying the idea of manmade global warming.”

Global warming is the buzzword that is echoed around the world. This topic is never free from its share of debates, discussions and controversies. Until some years ago you could come across environmentalists who pleaded you to join them in fight against Global warming. But today you may find environmentalists who will ask you to ignore the very concept of Global warming and to focus on more important things. So its largely your decision whether you should stand by the topic or concentrate on more important topics.Most of the time Global warming debate steers towards the direction that Global warming is not real. But still the people who go against the existence of Global Warming don’t deny that temperature of earth, temperature of the water and melting of the ice had certainly occurred but the reason for global warming cannot be made to rest on human shoulders. Changes are inherent part of the nature. Even if there is no release of carbon dioxide by human activities temperatures will change. The controversial Global warming skeptic Bjorn Lomborg however confirms the existence of some global warming facts but he adopts little bit tricky track to follow the issue when he says Global warming is real and caused by Carbon dioxide. The trouble is that the climate models show we can do very little about the warming. Some skeptics have further made the issue very confusing which generates an impression amongst the common man that Global warming is not real. Their viewpoints are:

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* There is no concrete evidence to show the global warming. * Even if there are no emissions of Carbon dioxide changes could be observed in measured temperature which is the part of natural cycle. * If the Kyoto Protocol is implemented in its full measure then that will cause economical striations in world. The losses will be large and gains very little. * More people are dying of Global cooling than Global warming so if temperature increases by couple of degrees then it can save more lives than before. * Money which is invested in such treaties and protocols should be directed to solve more inherent social problems like malnutrition, poverty, AIDS etc.While browsing through Television channels one can come across various celebrities, politicians, meteorologists, weather experts voicing their opposition to the global warming and adding some controversial conclusions towards Global warming debate. Some experts argue that even the most talked about documentary of 2007 called An Inconvenient Truth misguided the people over some facts. An Inconvenient Truth was declared as one sided and containing scientific errors by British Judge. An Inconvenient Truth shared Nobel Prize for peace with IPCC. Even IPCC openly rejected some of the points highlighted in the documentary like increase sea level. According to documentary 20 feet increase in sea level is expected at the turn of century whereas in reality scientists say only 3 feet increase is noted in the sea level at the end of the century. Gore also speaks about melting of icecaps which will contribute towards another inch of increase in sea level.Although there have been suggestions which when applied will lessen our harm on environment like going for natural energy sources than depending on the conventional energy sources. Similarly adopting environmental friendly electricity sources. The economical impact of embracing these changes will be very high.Some skeptics have also termed the Global warming debate as scam. They say that Global warming is the source of raising money for environmental organizations and so called Environmental groups. Someone may think I have contributed to environmental support group so there ends my responsibility and commitment with the nature but in reality paying hefty amounts towards fees doesn’t ends your responsibility towards nature. Instead adopt ways which are less harmful to the nature.

Though due to the global warming affect there has been many seasonal alterations, but the months of Nov Jan are considered to be the colder months of the world especially in the northern hemisphere. Global warming is an issue that requires immediate action. With global warming, the Netherlands would be in peril with the polar ice melting and the sea level coming up to an alarming level. First it was the hole in the ozone layer, then global warming, then El Nio, then Seinfeld called it quits — my God, is there no end to the horror we mortals must endure. But what with global warming, and rising sea levels, we figure that we might be able to just go to Southern VT or NH year-round, or back to RI where we grew up. The fact is that global warming is in the future and most people are more worried about what is happening in the present. The global warming alarmists want us to believe all of their research and paperwork and they tell us to the earth is heating up and we are all going to die in an apocalyptic fiery hell.

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Warming world Whatever global warming and peak oil do to world markets, one thing is certain: individuals will still have to eat. By stopping the consumption of meat and dairy products, we would raise the level of general health in the population a lot, we could cut down on the health budgets of each nation (which are very high all over the western world,- a real burden on us all), and at the same time save ourselves from the green house effect and the global warming problem. And the price of burning fossil fuels is more than just financial: environmentalists the world over continually warn about the dangers of using non-renewable energy sources that pollute the environment when burned, global warming being just one of the major topics frequently discussed. Consequences of global warming The idea is to stop, or at least slow down, the effects of global warming. Instead of just talking about the scientific effects of climate change on our biosphere, talk about the South Pacific fisherman who can no longer feed his family because the fish catch has declined due to global warming. An Inconvenient Truth – if you have to see one, see this one about global warming and its terrible far-reaching effects. Take for example, the global warming and earth changes are direct effects of this lack of care. These and a multitude of other global warming questions are mounting up across the world. Proponents of the bill have a whole different set of assumptions: –they arent at all convinced that humans have a decisive part in global warming. Facing the facts of global warming, countries all over the world have just begun to acknowledge the negative effects of global warming not only to the world’s politics and economy but also to humankind in general.