Al Gore and the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. Al Gore brought global warming to the attention of the American public, but the argument against global warming is not something that is on the news every night. Global warming is the idea that the Earth’s average temperature is rising due to human activities that have increased the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. As a result, it is expect that glaciers will melt, sea levels will rise, and the amount and pattern of precipitation will change, and this will have a negative affect on mankind. Many Americans did not understand why President George W. Bush questioned the validity of the global warming phenomenon. I would like to bring to people’s attention the argument against global warming.
Almost 20,000 scientists have signed a petition created by the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine stating that there is not enough scientific evidence that the greenhouse gases emitted from human activity is enough to cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and result in the Earth having a huge climate change. Temperatures readings in the lower troposphere show no signs of actual temperature change. The estimated warming temperatures taken on land are inaccurate and could be due urban development or human error. On the other hand, who is to say that a little global warming is bad, for example, during the Medieval Warm Period, areas of England were able to grow more crops. Europe had a more bountiful harvest which lead to economic and population growth.
Food for thought: “They can’t even get the weather forecast accurate 10 days out.”- Pastor Jeff Sanders
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