Global Warming Just Lot Of Hot Air

2 Pages 609 Words

Global Warming
The weather is a very illusive thing to predict. How many times has the local weatherman been wrong about the forecast? Even with all our modern technology we still can not account for all the variables of Mother Nature. So if we can’t even predict tomorrows weather how can our predictions on global warming be accurate?
In 1992 at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) the globalization of environmental green law was designed so it would scare the people into believing that global warming was a problem that needed to be fixed. They said the polar icecaps would melt, storms would grow stronger, the coastlines would flood, and winters would be colder and summers hotter. President Clinton headed to Japan to sigh the “global climate change” treaty to limit green house emissions, such as carbon dioxide. But is carbon dioxide the real problem?
Since the 19th century the earth’s temperature has increased 1.5 degrees Celsius. However since 1979 the earth’s temperature has cooled .09 degrees even though carbon dioxide emissions form fossil fuels have risen 19%. So how did the temperature rise before we put so much carbon dioxide into the air? “This is an effect coning before the cause,” says John Leoffler for his article “Global warming? Hot Air!” 90% of the earth’s heat is retented by water vapor not carbon dioxide. “Currently, human activity puts about 6 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere per year. Non-human activity, mostly volcanoes, account for about 200 billion tons,” says John Leoffler. We only produce 3% of the earth’s carbon dioxide. Is that really so significant that it would cause global warming? Dr. Harry N.A. Priem of Utrecht University says no. “ The fluctuations in carbon dioxide concentration appear to track those in temperature to a remarkavle degree, but a closer look reveals that fluctuations generally lag behind those in temperature...