A week ago I was involved in a conversation about global warming with a friend of mine that owns a couple of coal mines. I am not the most knowledgeable person in the world when it comes to this issue. As with most people I have listened to quite a couple of news bulletins and watched a documentary or two that speaks about global warming but does that make me know enough to argue a point. By the way, my friend believes that global warning is a money making conspiracy.
Most people don’t have a problem arguing a point and have no idea what I am on about but I like to make sense when I talk and not just trail on mindlessly. So where do I begin to learn about this reality/conspiracy. Who do I have to speak to, what do I have to read? Here I was lucky, I bought a DVD called “6 Degrees Could Change the World” by national geographic. I bought that DVD at 15% of its normal price.
The DVD is very vague and covers a lot of ground in 1h 40min. It covers too much ground to convince anyone either way but it does help one find where to look. I must admit that years ago I watched Al Gores movie “An Inconvenient Truth” and found my time inconveniently wasted because there was way too much in that movie that was convenient to prove a fact. The national geographic one was done by people that do believe in global warming but in the DVD they do speak about certain aspects where people could be wrong in their estimations and beliefs. They also give some hocus-pocus solutions to the problem.
Before I spend loads of money buying books and other DVDs I can spend some useful time just browsing the internet and looking for explanations that can help me write this blog. There are loads of Al Gore websites like http://www.climatecrisis.net/ , or www.algore.com , or www.wikipedia.com and look up his books. Then there is the wikipedia page itself. You will have to look very closely here; there are loads of items to lookup and you have to understand exactly what to look for otherwise you can get caught up and learn very little that is focussed in the right direction. Of course you don’t need to be a scientist to sort out the articles but there is so much that is so interesting that you can lose your way. I just looked up global warning, global warning crisis, global warning conspiracy, etc.
I have taken these articles and now I have to read through them and find out where to next. At the same time I am going to look at the DVD again and get some sort of structure in my research. I have not decided if I am going to use the DVD as a reference and in 6 articles tell you how the earth will change, or if I am going to do something totally different. All I hope is that you are going to learn with me.
Things to look at:
The earth has been hotter that now
There has been more co2 in the atmosphere than now
In no time in history has the earths temperature changed so drastically so quickly
Fine, the earth might recover but in past periods where we have had ice-ages or periods of high heat most of the living creatures in the world have been wiped out. Will we be wiped out?
What are the stages in global warming?
Are there any geological changes that might happen due to global warming?
What is happening to our atmosphere?
Etc.
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