Your Introduction To The Global Warming Debate
Randolph Lindquist
Debate, is it? Something valuable to discuss or purely media hype and political alarmism? It's everywhere you look these days. Global warming. Climatic doom and gloom that appears to be all but irreversible. Should we believe everything we hear or read? Did Al Gore spend a lot of money making a documentary about global warming simply because he was sore about losing the Presidential election? What's going on?
Anybody who knows (or doesn't know), scientists and people like you and me, explain global warming as the process of Planet Earth's temperatures running amuck, rising at rates that threaten with alarming possibilities. Our world is getting hotter. And who or what do we blame? Greenhouse gases appear to be the cause behind global warming, and these are the byproduct of thoughtless industries generating pollution without regard for consequences.
Slight temperature rises may not appear to be cause for worry, but the implication is that these temperature rises are unbound. That they will continue to grow over a short period of time with nothing to stop them and thus wreak havoc with the world as we know it. Temperatures up: hotter temperatures on the ground. Temperatures up: the melting of large ice masses. Melting of the ice masses: flooding all over the world. Flooding all over the world: coastline towns, villages and cities underwater, with millions upon millions displaced or dead as a result of such catastrophes. Picture if you will, huge portions of California, Florida, Texas, New York, England and many many other countries going underwater. Those are the threats that global warming brings to the discussion table.
Are we under the gun? Has the Earth clicked the trigger already? Has the bullet been fired? Is it traveling "slo-mo" towards us over the next thirty or forty years? You'll find many who believe that today's unpredictable weather conditions and rising temperatures can be attributed to anything under the sun except global warming. With the fate of our children and grandchildren at stake, is it worth risking to be wrong?
The global warming debate is mostly populated by politicians, scientists and celebrities. Do we dare destroy our economy by taking actions against pollution and calamitous events that may not come to pass? Do we dare stand by and do nothing, ruining any hopes for a better tomorrow? Will we spend money foolishly to combat what might possibly be? Do we take the initiative and endeavor to protect our children's and grandchildren's futures?
So what are the tactics presently in use when discussing global warming? What's behind the rhetoric? You can expect those who believe that global warmng is a real threat to appeal to your sense of decency and to your parental responsibility to offer your children and grandchildren a world that's livable. You can expect those who believe global warming is a hoax to "attack the messenger" by engaging the testimony of pseudo-scientists to refute claims-- and by attacking the credibility of those who favor taking actions to counter global warming trends. Listen enough to both sides and both approaches will become clear as you listen to the words.
Keep in mind as we discuss and evaluate global warming that the human race is not the sole species which will suffer from global warming and greenouse gases and pollution. Animals that look to the waters an coral reefs for habitat and survival will be deeply impacted as well. Many already are, slain by the insufferable amount of toxins that we release into the oceans as a matter of daily life.
Will you allow yourself to stand on the sidelines for global warming. Let's hope not. Read the newspapers, watch the media coverage, search the Internet! Take the time to learn everything you can about an issue that affects the fate of our children and grandchildren.
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