Learn both sides of the global warming argument. Is global warming real? If global warming exists, is it caused by humans or nature?
Learn both sides of the global warming argument. Is global warming real? If global warming exists, is it caused by humans or nature?
The success of the documentary cinema The Inconvenient Truth, starring former Vice President Al Gore, coupled with major weather related disasters the world over in the last few years has once again brought climate change and global warming to the fore front.
While United States has long remained the world’s largest contributor of green house gases that lead to global warming, the Bush administration has yet to sign the internationally heralded Kyoto Protocol. In fact, it has been caught in some blatant controversies trying to disprove a body of scientific evidence regarding the matter.
Many politicians and journalist have concluded that this has happened not because they don’t believe climate change is taking place, but rather because of the powerful lobbying groups mainly from the auto and oil industry that supports them. Cars and fossil fuel use, along with coal based electricity, remains some
of the biggest source of carbon emission the world over.
With recent hubbub about global warming, and polls showing immense public concern over the issue, President Bush has spoken publicly many times about slowing down the effects of global warming, mainly by using technology to cut carbon emissions.
In his State of the Union address last year, he explicitly endorsed the Hybrid car technology, one that would run not just on gas but also electricity. After the Democratic Party won control of the House and the Senate, the U.S Government has also steadily endorsed many pro-environment causes such as the development of alternative energy such as bio fuels for automobiles, and is actively drafting bills that will require Detroit to produce cars that give better mileage. This April, the Supreme Court voted 5-4, giving the federal government the authority to regulate vehicle’ carbon emissions under the country’s Clean Air Act.
While the environment has already become a major Presidential campaign agenda for elections ‘08, true leadership on global warming has so far come most effectively form local authorities across the United States. Almost two hundred cities have taken to the cause, designing and implementing their own campaigns to slow down the effects of global warming as much as possible. California’s governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and New York City’s mayor Michael Bloomberg have both take the lead and made fighting global warming a primary objective during their time in office.
While California plans to plant over 11 million trees in its urban space within the next two decades, New York recently hosted one of the world’s largest summits of the mayors with a focus on cities and local authorities taking the lead for this cause. Trees are natural air purifiers, and today there is a serious public effort across towns and cities to build greener space.
There has also been a massive grassroots campaign to fight global warming from religious groups as well as celebrities. And saving the world itself has become a financially sound decision for investors the world over. Wall Street, too, has taken to the cause, and Goldman Sachs has already invested billions in clean energy.
The people of America seem to be increasingly geared up to take responsibility for their part in causing global warming, which will affect countries that were not major contributors of the greenhouse gases the most. And it’s forcing leaders in the Republican and Democratic Party, as well as the business and scientific community and religious groups to do what it takes to neutralize the global warming effect.
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July 19th, 2007 at 10:46 am
The study found that global warming since 1985 has been caused neither by an increase in solar radiation nor by a decrease in the flux of galactic cosmic rays. Some researchers had also suggested that the latter might influence global warming because the rays trigger cloud formation. I find a blog which give some useful information on Global Warming.
August 22nd, 2007 at 5:10 pm
Americans have just started to act and because they are acting aginst time, they have to increase their speeds to meet with the current situation.The harm caused by man,USA together with other polluting nations is hard to bear.The negligence of USA to climate change issues is widely appreciated because America has always been the “world;s leading” nation and they ought to have played this role.
February 11th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
I just read the first full length fiction novel about the greehouse effect on humanity titled Download: An Alternative Story of Noah and his Ark by Howard J. Peters (ISBN-10: 1419631616)
Bible stories are always more than what they seem. Even today they resonate in our collective consciousness because their ancient messages are still so timely. Debut author Howard Peters’ bold, brash, and fiercely funny trilogy takes its premise from the story of Noah’s Ark. Written in three books, “Castle in the Sky,” “Your Body is Where you Live,” and “The Third Rising,” this is an ingeniously written novel that’s part Thomas Pynchon, part Ray Bradbury and altogether original. Somewhere in space and time, the world is in chaos. There’s no green grass and the air is polluted. There’s nothing left but memories of better times and fears about nuclear disaster. Hybrids populate this world, along with humans and gorilla people, and greed and cruelty is rampant.
Suddenly, a strange video hologram arrives, full of knowledge about another civilization, and Noah begins to wonder who sent it and why? Was there a similar solar system that might sustain life? Noah begins to plan for a brave new world, transporting people on the spaceship ARK toward a very familiar sounding planet. But will the future be better than the present? Peters’ eloquent message is clear: What we do in our world now is a legacy for our children tomorrow. What kind of world do we want to leave them? Do we want to redevelop our wasteful ways and continue to be inhumane or do we want to make permanent change for the betterment of our world and ourselves?
Peters’ writing zips and flows on the page, creating a panoramic cast of original characters and extraordinary situations. There are the lovers Svi and Lika, the gorilla people pondering their place in the cosmos, and of course, there is Noah, endlessly musing about God and fate and the future. Fiendishly clever and whiz-bang enjoyable, this is a page-turning trilogy that is both provocative and profound. VISIT www.howardjpeters.com
Download: An Alternative Story of Noah and his Ark by Howard J. Peters
Publisher: BookSurge Publishing (April 16, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1419631616
ISBN-13: 978-1419631610
February 13th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
Thursday, December 6, 2007
‘IN TOUCH WITH DOWNLOAD’
I am exasperated by the inhumane way that the ignorant political right in the USA are downplaying the need for watching
the changes that are being foisted on the world’s environment by the human race who are eating at our planet like
maggots eat a rotting apple.
I am a right wing minded thinker myself and am fully aware of the future of our globe being infected by religious
doctrines of extremism which could prove more fatal in a much more rapid momentum than any ‘greenhouse effect’ but
for the sake of mankind let us not get tied up in political doctrine when humankind is putting its survival at stake.
It should be honestly said that we are at war with the extreme of Islam who use the name of the very being that would
most abhor the destruction of his own creation. Likewise we are at war with our planet but it will surely be our
generation of grandchildren who will never thank us for what we have done.
Religion is a gift from the almighty, we should cherish it, never fight over it and never abuse it.
Why cannot mankind forget its differences and remember its sames?
For more of the same please read my book . . .
‘Download’
An alternative story of Noah and his Ark.
A sensational story of man’s inhumanity to man and his environment.
by
Howard J Peters OD
available on www.amazonbooks.com
For more info - please visit my website: http://www.howardjpeters.com