Jonathan roman
My views on global warming
1/23/10

My views on global warming are that it is a hoax made by scientist to get more funding from feeble minded people who will believe anything you tell them. The scientific community tells you that everyday people such as yourself are the cause for global warming and that its effect on the earth will be catastrophic if we don’t stop our co2 output. Personally I do believe the earth is warming but not because of anything humans have done but on natural causes that cannot be helped and that won’t have catastrophic consequences. The media keeps telling us a one-sided story, that we are the cause for global warming and the only way to stop it is to support the scientific community by donating money to finding a source of energy that doesn’t produce as much or any co2 as a byproduct. These include solar, wind, water, etc. as sources of energy, but the only thing is that they are unreliable and expensive. The solar panels only gather energy when the sun is out to shine but when it isn’t the power goes. The same is true for wind and water. Also because they are expensive the poorer countries cannot afford them. The government is trying to get everyone to use renewable energy and if this happens the poorer countries would have to make do without any electricity and would be even more economically challenged then they are now. As the media keeps talking about global warming and its effect on the weather which is partially true because they still say that it’s the co2 in the atmosphere that is causing it. This is wrong because studies of the ice cores of Greenland that tell us that there was a period in time when there was more co2 in the atmosphere and the climate was much more colder than the one we have to today. The media also says that the warmer weather will melt the polar ice caps and change the Atlantic current which regulates the warmer and colder waters. The scientific community keeps showing the sea ice melting and breaking away from the huge continent called Antarctica and saying that polar bears are drowning because they can’t find ice to stand on. But the media is only telling you half of the truth, in fact the ice does melt but this is both natural and not because of co2, as a matter of fact the ice in Antarctica is actually expanding in the area of ocean it covers. Based on a study conducted by the National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado November of 1979 had an extent of the ice was 5.9 million sq km and an area of 11.2 million sq km, while in 2009 it had an extent of 16.3 million sq km and an area 11.6 million sq km. and also there have only been four recent cases of polar bear drowning and that was because of storms.

Also the scientific community needs you to believe that there is a global warming crisis on our hands, because they need funding. As time goes by scientist and the media keep making it out like the world is going crazy and that it’s going to end soon because of co2 output into the atmosphere, otherwise no one would fund them so they can work on stuff they want to work on.

Well that’s my opinion on global warming
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