Global Warming

Don't be mislead by the amount of disinformation on the internet or in the media about global warming. It is real, the only matter left for debate among serious scientists is how soon the effects will be felt and how severe they will be. The fact remains man has increased the CO2 content of the atmosphere by a factor of one third since 1900. This extra CO2 in the atmosphere will act just like extra insulation in a home; it will retain more heat leading to rising temperatures of the earth.

There is a site on the internet with the domain name of global warming organization, it is in fact nothing of the sorts. The site is financed by some of the largest polluters in the US, the oil companies. Now if they can't be honest over their source of funds and backers do you really think they will present honest peer reviewed literature?

Check the Naysayers Debunked page for the names of some of the more outrageous liars and remember the one reason the anti-global warming crowd cite so few people is because they can't find that many scientist that will lie for them. Nor don't fall for some of their mindless rants such as if science can't predict tomorrow's weather how can they predict a change in climate. The fact is climate is much easier to predict than the weather. Everyone knows that Minnesota can expect snow and extremely cold temperatures in the winter and that Arizona can expect hot temperatures during the summer and dry-desert like conditions most of the year. That is climate prediction not weather prediction and you the reader would have been able to make the same climate predictions.

I wrote those brief 3 paragraphs above several years ago. They still hold true today. In fact the situation has became worst. Under the direction of George W. Bush the EPA's own report conducted for the Bush regime was watered down from orders from Bush. The dangers are real. We are beginning to experience the first effects from global warming and they point to a future crisis if not a total collapse of the earth's ecosystems. Thousands of acres of forest in Alaska are now dead from an insect invasion made possible by the warmer temperatures. Europe faces the danger that it might turn into a frigid ice box from the disruption of the Gulf Stream due to global warming.

The photo at the left shows a coral reef, just one of the ecosystems that are threatened by global warming. Coral thrives in a relatively narrow temperature band of about 5 degrees C centered around 26 degrees C. Once the surface waters warm 2 additional degrees above this ban extensive bleaching of the reef occurs followed by death of the reef. Coral reefs provide an immense value to mankind, offering protection to islands from storm surges and tidal erosion of the shorelines, protection for many other marine species, rich fishing grounds and an extremely diverse ecosystem. The biodiversity of coral reefs are only rivaled by the biodiversity of rain forest. The biodiversity of coral reefs have already provided an abundance of drugs and holds many more yet to be discovered. Additionally the coral reefs can be used as a bioindicator of global warming. Click on the photo for an overview of coral reefs and the threat from global warming.

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