Current event #3

Editorial: Earth Aboil
This editorial is all about how much carbon we as human beings are spewing into our atmosphere. It also talks about how we have raised the temperature of our earth between two and three degrees in the past two years. Yes, this is another global warming editorial all about how we are killing our world and in turn killing ourselves.
Carbon gases that are released into the atmosphere attach themselves to the ozone molecules and create the greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect actually is a very small player in global climate Human's did not because the greenhouse effect, but certain critics such as this one, agree that the human population has added to the amount of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere. Ninety-five percent of the greenhouse effect is due solely to natural water vapor. Of the remaining 5%, only 0.2% to 0.3% of the greenhouse effect is due to emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases from human sources. If we are in fact in a global warming crisis, even the most aggressive and costly proposals for limiting industrial carbon dioxide emissions would have an undetectable effect on global climate.
Finally the author of this editorial spoke about how the United States need to lead by example to fix this problem. Personally, I think that some other country should step up and take action to help in fixing it. Why not have countries like China or Russia, who are other world powers, start this new era of carbon free energy? Yes the climate is changing but it has been changing since eighteen thousand years ago, when the earth finally stated its warming period from the ice age. Whether you think that humans are the reason for global warming and killing us all, or if you believe that it is just a natural process that the world is going through and that we had no influence on it, you need to look at both sides of the story. We have such a large impact on our environment, there is no true way to know if this global warming period is because of us or not, but if it is we should find a way to help reduce our carbon footprint.