Apr 04 2008
Brians first Summary and response
Harvard Expert Debunks Global Warming Threat
In the article, James Glassman interviews Sallie Baliunas, a part of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, about the growing “threat” of global warming. Baliunas claims that the sun is responsible for the warming and cooling of the earth, not humans. She admits that humans have raised the earth a tiny .08 of a degree Fahrenheit in the last hundred years. However, the claim that the level of CO2 is the highest ever recorded is false. In fact, in the early 1900’s, before all the SUV’s and fossil fuels began to be used, the CO2 had a higher concentration then today. She talks about how the solar flares the sun produces have a huge impact on the global climate. In fact, the earth has been on about a 1500 year cycle of downs and ups of temperatures, and currently, we are on a warming one. She says in about 200-300 years, the earth will began cooling once again. On top of that, she claims that the earth warming right now is a good thing, because plants are growing a lot faster and who doesn’t like warm weather? Dealing with the ice caps, the Antarctic temperatures have actually lowered over the past 100 years, proving that the “global warming” is not really melting polar ice caps.The statistics support my arguement very well. The stats bring up new questions on if global warming is really happening or if its just a scare tactic. It is very interesting, after reading this article, how anyone could really believe what the media has been saying to us. This is not a dooming problem that will destroy us in 5 years. True, we should try to control our resources and try to put less carbon in the air, but, its not going to kill us. It is not that serious of a problem.
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Please separate between summary and response–that way it is clear what ideas are the author’s and which are yours.
Sounds like an interesting article.
Does any information from this article fit into your segment? Could someone else use it?
I think it does. I think we could use it too.