Friday, March 14, 2008

With ice caps melting on Mars, will Gore push for hybrid rovers?

An article written in National geographic just may be the final nail in Al Gore's coffin. The article, which can be found at Nationalgeographic.com, says, "Mars's southern polar ice cap ...has shrunk in recent years due to planetary warming—similar to what's happening on Earth." However, despite this obvious flaw in the generally accepted "truths" about global warming, many scientists still can't see the light. As the artcile goes on to explain, "But the vast majority of experts maintain that humans are responsible for Earth's climate changes and that the Mars phenomenon is mere coincidence." Mere coincidence? I think not. And neither does my homeroom teacher, Dr. Charles Breem. After watching a news story on global warming one mornign, he decided to explain to us the truth about global warming. Doc Breem, who has a Ph. D. in Chemistry and Physics, listed some facts about global warming that won't come up in any of Al Gore's power points:
  • One volcanic eruption spews out more greenhouse gasses than the entire city of Los Angeles does in 6 months.
  • The earth has had approximately seven ice ages since its creation-all of which have been followed by a long period of increasing warming.
  • The sun is burning more brightly now than it has in the past 1000 years. ( Don't believe me, read this.)
  • And to top it all off, the Earth has recorded the coldest winter in over 200 years.

Make of this what you will, but the facts, and I maen real information, not skewed numbers or baseless theories point to not only a less deadly global warming, but also one that isn't caused by humans. Quite frankly, I think that we as a species think to highly of ourselves, believing that we can alter so drastically a planet that we have only been on for a few thousand years, compared to the few billion years that the Earth has been around.

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