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Resolved Question: How many people actually know the scientific facts behind Global Warming?
I am starting to wonder, how many people out there actually know the facts about Global Warming, and how many are just operating based upon whatever they hear from the media or Hollywood. I think it's great that people are taking measures to respect the ONLY home we have, but are they equipped with the facts in order to make the best decisions on how to care for our planet? I'm annoyed at the fact, this issue is getting blown out of proportion and people think it's the start of Doomsday...and I get really annoyed at catch phrases such as "go-green", because it seems more like a fashion statement to people who want to appear "Holier Than Thou", driving around in their Prius. Has anyone else heard of these facts listed below? Or has anyone heard facts that might invalidate the ones below? Here are some unbiased facts I just read in a Science Magazine, who also shares it's information with other notable Science Magazines such as Nature Geosicence: 1. Global Warming is really happening. According to the National Climatic Data Center, the average global surface temp. has risen approximately 1.2*F since 1880. (Please note that this fact doesn't tell us the cause of the increase.) 2. NASA reported that the average number of major hurricanes (categories 4 and 5) has doubled since 1970. HOWEVER, when you calculate the average of all hurricanes, you find much less of an increase. In fact, the year 2007 saw a decrease in hurricanes. So, NASA's fact is true, but it doesn't tell the whole truth. Yes bad hurricanes have doubled, but the number of hurricanes altogether has decreased. (Note that this information does not provide us with a cause for why hurricanes are stronger but less frequent.) 3. Since the Ice Age (both Scientists and Creation Scientists believe there was once an Ice Age), the earth's temps have fluctuated by only a few degrees. 900-1300 AD was considered a "warm period", followed by a "little ice age" from 1300-1880 AD, when the overall temps dropped about 2*F. These relatively recent fluctuations can be correlated to natural changes, such as volcanic eruptions and cycles in the sun's radiation. (When the earth receives more energy from the sun, the earth gets warmer.) It is logical to assume that similar factors continue to have some influence on today's global warming. 4. CO2 gases are in the earth's atmosphere that regulate temperature by holding in heat from the sun, and as such these gases are necessary for life. The primary greenhouse gas, which is responsible for the vast majority of the greenhouse effect, is water vapor. Carbon dioxide, which comes second to water vapor amongst the greenhouse gases, provides only a tiny fraction of the greenhouse effect. So, yes, pumping more CO2 into the air is not great, but it isn't the sole cause of warming. (The oceans and volcanoes release more CO2 into the atmosphere, that humans combined....the warmer the oceans, the more CO2 is released. So, perhaps the warming temps are RESULTING in more greenhouse gas.) 5. Polar Bears are actually currently thriving. Receding glaciers, melting ice caps and other changes are, of course, likely to affect a variety of animal and plant species. But, based on the fossil record, it appears that many species, such as the Miohippus and the woolly mammoth, flourished in the changing climates at one point, but eventually went extinct. Humans clearly had nothing to do with these climate changes and extinctions. According to some climate models, which use current data and a variety of assumptions to predict future climate patterns, several plant and animal species could go extinct by 2050 due to climate change. Currently, there are no documented extinctions resulting from global warming. 6. www.stopglobalwarming.com claims that the ocean level will rise only 6 feet in the next hundred years, but they have yet to present the scientific evidence to back up their claim. Based on the climate models, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, estimates that ocean levels will rise approx. 16 inches during this century. While this could result in many inconveniences without proper planning, it's certainly not the end of the world due to flooding. 7. Global Warming has been blamed for an increase of weather catastrophes. First of all, when has extreme weather been out of the ordinary? Secondly, only recently did scientists gain weather documenting tools and avanced satellite equipment to record and document modern weather events, that could have gone unrecorded in the past. That makes it pretty difficult to validate whether these events have been increasing. According to the journal Nature Geoscience, major hurricanes increasing in recent decades is not a result from Global Warming and are estimated to decrease by the end of the century. There really is not sufficient evidence to clearly identify Global Warming as the cause of extreme weather events. I do feel we need moreResolved Question: Is there an easy way out of the “OIL” mess we've gotten ourselves into?
Is there an easy way out of the “OIL” mess we've gotten ourselves into? Oil is nearly $100 a barrel. Gas may soon reach $4 a gallon. And Americans are being bitten in almost every way imaginable by this insidious oil hydra. Two billion people in China and India are now eager consumers. They want the cars, gadgets, and lifestyle that Westerners have claimed as a birthright for a half-century. Their growing energy appetites mean that the international petroleum market may remain tight, even if Americans — who use almost twice as much oil per day as China and India put together — cut back on imported energy. The Middle East is raking in billions each week. At best, our so-called friends in cash-laden Saudi Arabia subsidize fundamentalist mosques and hate-filled madrassas worldwide. At worst, our enemies in petrol-rich Iran are after the bomb, send weapons into Iraq to kill Americans and fund Hezbollah jihadists. War in Iraq, rumors of fighting in the near-future in Iran and tension on the West Bank only panic markets raise oil prices and further enrich our grinning enemies. The nearly half-trillion dollars we will soon pay for imported oil does a lot more than prop up Russia's Vladimir Putin, Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The petrodollar drain also contributes to our trade deficits, falling dollar and a general demoralization of the American people. Our oil habit not only makes us dependent on some creepy suppliers, but we look like fools as we work nonstop to hand over our earnings to those who are rich by an accident of sitting atop oil someone else found and developed. There is talk in this country of a gradual transition to alternative fuels, solar power, wind machines, plug-in electric cars, and nuclear power. Supposedly Americans will soon be less dependent on imported oil — while helping to slow global warming — as we are weaned off our fossil-fuel addiction. But let's talk about the present: If oil continues to climb, ultimately, it will change our very way of life. Hard-pressed families will shell out thousands more a year in direct transportation and heating and cooling costs, and more still as consumer prices inflate. It may have always been unwise for commuters to buy large SUVs and V8 super cab trucks. Now, though, we may reach the point where these pricey huge vehicles will sputter to a halt. Indebted Americans will still shell out monthly payments to pay off their parked dinosaurs, only to drive them for emergency or ceremonial occasions. Also expect rising popular anger at an asleep-at-the-wheel government that for the last 20 years should have been doing a lot more to mandate conservation, subsidize alternate fuels, encourage nuclear power and open up oil fields offshore and in Alaska. Instead, doctrinaire free-market purists and radical environmentalists, hand in glove, for years have thwarted both conservation and exploration. True, in a perfect world, the market would teach Detroit not to build gas-hungry big cars. Yet in the here and now, we are needlessly burning scarce fuel as too many 7,000-pound mammoths deliver single 180-pound drivers to work — while the auto industry continues on its path to irrelevance. Meanwhile, green politicians may not want messy oilrigs off their coasts, or tankers up north among the ice and polar bears. But so far very few of them have sworn off jet travel, nice cars or ample homes. Oil companies claim that they are only passing along escalating costs from overseas suppliers over which they have no control. But around a third of our oil is pumped here at home. Think about it: The cost to extract oil from existing older wells is relatively fixed. For much of the 1990s and early 2000s, oil prices had been steady at between $20 and $30 a barrel (when adjusted for inflation) — and domestic oil companies did quite well. So now at near $100 a barrel, these corporations are raking additional profits of over $60 a barrel — potentially a domestic windfall of hundreds of billions of dollars each year. Is there an easy way out of the mess we've gotten ourselves into? Maybe a Silicon Valley genius inventor or entrepreneur will step forward with a breakthrough new energy source. Maybe our government will start a crash project on the scale of the Manhattan Project to conserve and produce more fuels. Maybe China and India will consider radical conservation measures. Maybe countries like Iraq, Libya, and Russia will start reinvesting in their oil infrastructures and double production. Maybe the Middle East will finally settle down and soothe jittery oil speculators. Those are too many maybes to wait for while our way of life hangs in the balance. It is past time to demand from our presidential candidates, as well as the current government, exactly when and how they plan to slay this many-headed oil monster. moreMore Mammoth Heat Pumps Results