May
12th 2010
Back to the Basics – National Geographic’s Global Warming 101
Posted under Global Warming Awareness
It’s been some time since my last blog post due to hosting issues and this site has been suspended, on hold for some time, which I feel has broken much of the traffic momentum this site once had. To get started again blogging, I am posting the video above from National Geographic which is a good overview of Global Warming, on what causes it. An introduction to the Greenhouse Effect, and all about Greenhouse Gases and how this can be reduced. I noticed the language was carefully written using the words:
…scientist believe it is human activity driving the temperatures up…National Geographic – Global Warming 101
Stating it like an opinion and not a fact. But the rest of the video are said in a factual tone on what are greenhouse gases, what creates them, what are the effects on global temperature and what man-made activities create greenhouse gases. They talk about ice core data in this video but mentions the highest recorded temperature in 1998 and 2005 and does not dive into historical temperature data before recording data was made. And if you are watching this video because you are not aware of Global Warming yet, I suggest you do keep an open mind since there is this story that most people learn in school. And there is also the story that says this is all false. And there are those that tell the people that claim it is false, that they are the ones that does not have their facts straight.
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CJ on 12 May 2010 at 9:31 am #
I agree with you that there is alot of debate around the global warming issue. There is however one documentary that tries to educate people that the global warming issue is falsified by the evidence because as long as there is an problem, money will flow in. Here is a short summary of the documentary: “The Great Global Warming Swindle”
I dont believe that man made CO2 is the cause for global warming, the sun is the single most important factor that drives climate change, in addition the most important greenhouse gas is water vapour (99%), the rest is other gasses, CO2 is munite in the percentage of greenhouse gas, I’m talking about in the 0.000- single digits. On top of that, if you look at the ice core surveys done, you will see that the earth’s climate has been alot warmer than it is today.
But i do agree that money the cause that our children must live in polluted areas and neigborhoods and have respatory diseases like asthma.
Did you know that the green movement is the single biggest factor in the world today that prevents third- world countries from developing? The developed countries wont invest in coal and oil projects in developing countries like Angola, they say that the developing world should use wind and solar power.
Another question i would like to ask is, if we, Americans living in a first- world country find it expensive to use solar and wind power, how will poor africans be able to afford it?
I dont see a solar panel powering a steel factory or a railway line! It might be good to power a small radio…