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Tuesday, March 29, 2005

Global tempereatures are changing

We've talked a lot about the policies that create restrictions on pollution and are supposedly making the air cleaner, the water clearer and overall the environment better. Are these policies creating more problems than solutions. According to Dr. S. Fred Singer they are. He wrote an article in the Earth Times about the environmental policy getting lost in the politics. It is a short piece that brings up some interesting ideas but what I found most interesting about the article is that Dr. Singer is an expert in many fields of environmental science.

I started digging into some of the issues Dr. Singer has addressed and I found one interview that particularly interested me. Air quality has been a big issue and global warming has not really been talked about in class. There is a lot about global warming under debate, such as are humans causing it? Its been scientifically proven that throughout time earth has warming and cooling cycles, so yes, global warming is natural. Dr. Singer brings up the point that a large amount of recent temperature data is taken in cities where temperatures naturally increase due to the energy used in cities, so unless we're ready to give up energy and live without it city temperatures are going to increase.

1 Comments:

At 8:26 AM, Blogger Casey said...

What I have failed to see ever on global warming is the inherent risk. At the rate it is climbing it is negligible in my opinion, and maybe oceans levels will rise a few inches. Doesnt sound like alot to me, and historically warmer temperatures and better for the enviroment. The Kyoto protocol is just an action to show the people that something is being done about this potentila hazard, that the governments are unified to stop this. As with most things it is politicized and a doomsday movie are what most people know about it.

 

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