Thursday, January 15, 2009

Global Warming

Let's face it: Global warming is most likely real. Now the people telling us(i.e.-al gore)maybe not so real. A lot of the facts and the data given to the public can be very misleading and very scary about our future here on Earth. I'm all about being more friendly to the Earth everything, but come on, let's set this straight without confusion. The people behind these ads are infusing fear into the american public to try and get them to do something about it. I do not agree with this type of persuation at all.People complain about president Bush scaring the public about the war in Iraq, but they aren't complaing about this.
NASA claims that the temperature of Earth with rise 6-10 degrees farrenheit in the next hundred years. The United Nations panel on Global Warming shows that the Earth will rise 2.4 degrees Celcius. Now, I don't know if NASA bothered with a calculator or if they just decided to take a guess at the conversion between farrenheit and celcius, but 2.4 degrees celcius only converts to 4 degrees farennheit. 2-6 degrees is a BIG difference.
On An Inconvenient Truth, a film endorsed by Al Gore, is very misleading. The first problem I have with this is that he shows a clip of ice shelves in the arctic falling appart. Not that it wouldn't be a bad thing to show, except for the clip he shows is COMPUTER GENERATED! not only is it computer generated, but it is from the move "The Day After Tommorow". All this covered on ABC channel. This just makes Al Gores Accountability go way down.
The next little film that is scary, is The Story Of Stuff by Annie leonard. Its an Internet based 20 minute movie telling us how we really suck at recycling and how we are consuming way to much. Sure I agree, but again i find this to be very misleading. She goes on about how we have cut down all of our trees and blown up all of our mountains...Not the Case. Ive been all around the western part of the united states and miles and miles of forests and mountains still exist. To tell you the truthm i dont really remember seeing any harvested lands. And Most mountains are protected with the national parks system. She makes it seem like there is nothing protected but instead there are 400 protected lands of all kinds under the national parks system. She also says that only 5 percent of our natural forests exist. Now east coast yuppies probably picture the west as mainly forest lands, and with the image of only 5% in their minds, they probably see all cut down tree stubs...Not the case once again. Think about how many different landscapes there are. There are mountains, rolling grasslands, desserts, canyons, the red earth of the south. All are still alive and thriving. The us is till well with original landscapes.
My point is, why doesnt the government just lay out the actual facts? and instead educate us on how to properly take care of out great Earth we live on.