Man Made Global Warming:
True or False?
I’ve never seen Mr. Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, but I got the message he was trying to send. We, the human race, suck. I beg to differ. We are the cause of the Polar Bears’ Dire situation. I beg to differ. We are killing the world we so dearly need. I beg to differ.
Let’s compare our carbon footprint to the Earth’s. Every year we put six billion tons of carbon dioxide into the Earth’s atmosphere. Earth puts over 180 billion tons a year into its own atmosphere through oceanic evaporation, plant decay, and volcanic eruptions. But it’s okay we have no need to worry. The carbon dioxide that enters the atmosphere doesn’t just sit there and eat holes for sun to slip through. It is recycled by plants and oceans. You see, all plants have a repertory system similar to humans in the fact that they breathe in one thing, and breathe out another. Humans breathe in oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide; plants breathe in the carbon dioxide and breathe out oxygen. Carbon dioxide is actually a vital ingredient to both human and plant life.
Global Warming has been happening for many, many, many years; long before the Industrial Revolution. It is a repeating cycle, ice age, melt, ice age. Guess where we are at right now. That’s correct, we’re melting. Don’t fret though, in about 18,000 years the world will be a frozen wasteland once again and scientists can blame us for that too. They will say we clogged the hole we burnt in the ozone layer, and now the sun can’t make its way through to heat our frozen planet. It’s all a cycle.
April is ending in Sandpoint many people, including me, have over three feet of snow in our yards. If we continue killing the Earth with global warming, we just might freeze to death.