An Inconvenient Truth
If you haven't seen this presentation, and you claim to be concerned about the environment, then go see it. You can find it online at www.climatecrisis.org, or at your favorite video store.
This presentation provided me one of the most profound awakenings in my adult life. This issue Global Warming crosses all party lines and affects us at the biological level, not the political level.
Perhaps, the messenger should not have been Al Gore, who gives a phenomenal presentation, because of his previous political involvement; members of his opposition party may be turned off by his mere presence.
I find it very interesting, that despite global warming as having a political perception, many governments around the world, along with scientific communities have contributed to the data collection, analysis and reporting that lends credibility to the theory of global warming.
It is no longer a liberal idea that global warming is a growing problem. The mechanical measurements over the past 180 years have set the benchmark from which the current measurements are compared, and the results are leading towards a rapid change in our environment.
As improvements in the measurement technologies have come about, and the sheer volume of data now being collected around the world, it has become an overwhelming fact, that radical and rapid environmental change is afoot.
The Earth's normal cycles, according to ice records, tar analysis, and the fossil record, shows a fairly consistent periodicity of 100,000 years for a major heating and cooling. One of the constants among human history has been a relatively low population density until the past approximate 200 years. Since the human population boom and the industrial demand we have placed on the environment, we have helped to accelerate the heating and cooling cycle to a period of only a few hundred years (if that).
In a recent study of carbon dioxide emissions, Dr Raupach of the CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Organization (http://www.csiro.au/csiro/content/standard/ps2im.html) says “Recent emissions seem to be near the high end of the fossil fuel use scenarios used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). On our current path, it will be difficult to rein-in carbon emissions enough to stabilize the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration at 450 ppm.”
It has been reported by several news organizations, that significant numbers of species of animals will go extinct due to loss of habitat, changes in water salinity and temperature, significant changes in the temperature bounds that were previously "normal", or from interrupting the cycle of insect hatchings.
As Al Gore states, the damage we are seeing today is from what we have already done. The question now is what can we do to change the rate of this instability, or can we correct the problem.
It is possible that we have there may be so much damage, that the environment may have become so dysfunctional and out of balance, that we may not find a solution quick enough to stop our climate crisis.
Hopefully our collective efforts will be enough.
Robert
4:31 PM
nearly every "fact" in this docu-drama has been disproven. the earth has not warmed a single degree in nine years. largest ice increase in recorded history this year in antarctica. the british house of commons has censured this film for discrepancies, falsification, and misrepresentation of the facts. NOA's weather monitoring equipment is set in asphalt parking lots, next to parking spaces with hot engines. need i go on. all this is easily verifiable. why would anyone state an unfounded hypothesis as fact, i would say "follow the money"
2:05 PM
Thank you Anonymous for bravely commenting on this post!
The facts and figures surrounding the argument of global warming certainly have matured over the past one and a half years since this article was posted.
A number of facts have changed since "An Inconvenient Truth" was published and it should be evaluated periodically. However, I think what is going on in terms of warming and cooling trends indicates an imbalance in regards to our collective perception of what is weather.
Some parts of the world are experiencing colder than normal winters, other parts are experiencing dryer air than normal, or more flooding than usual, but the dynamics of weather are extremely complicated.
The arctic ice shelf is crumbling CNN- Massive ice shelf on verge of breakup is a contradiction to your statements about largest ice increase in recorded history.
There are ups and downs in all aspects of the global weather patterns. The term global warming really is a misnomer. It's not just warming, but the other extreme of cooling is also experienced as the cycle is showing signs of being out of balance.
Nobody here (i.e. me) is stating a hypothesis as fact, but a hypothesis should be examined and debated and all the evidence we have at the time of evaluation, and we are surely not done collecting and collating the data. The experiment is far from over, so it would be absurd to make a conclusion this early on either side of the argument.
Thanks for reading!
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