Global Warming does not exist, it is hick voodoo magic! Not really, it's pretty much existing...yeah. Anyway, hick voodoo magic aside, global warming is a serious problem with serious consequences and serious misspelings. Basically global warming (hereby reffered to as Hick Voodoo Magic) is where the sun's light, carrying infrared beams, gets caught in the earth's ATMOSPHEREEEEE!!! Thusly making everybody sad.

Anyway, sad people aside, I will now go into the actual science of Hick Voodoo Magic (Hereby reffered to as Global Warming). Normally when the sun shines on our dear planet earth the infrared rays come in and visit.



See how they keep the planet nice and warm and then leave. Well carbon dioxide, CO2, builds up in the atmosphere and make a thick sheild around the earth that traps the sun's rays, making them stay longer.

Now this makes the planet a lot warmer which makes the icecaps melt. That is a bad thing. Now for a sec lemme get serious, the following is a quote from an essay by one Mr. Bill McKibben:

"This is the year when we finally started to understand what we are in for. Exactly 12 months ago, an MIT professor named Kerry Emanuel published a paper in Nature showing that hurricanes had slowly but steadily been gaining in strength and duration for a generation. It didn't attract widespread attention for a few weeks—not until Katrina roared across the Gulf of Mexico and rendered half a million people refugees. The scenario kept repeating: Rita choking highways with fleeing Texans; Wilma setting an Atlantic Ocean record for barometric lows; Zeta spinning on New Year's Day. Meanwhile, other data kept pouring in from around the planet: Arctic sea ice melting past an irrevocable tipping point; thawing permafrost in northeastern Siberia creating so much methane that lakes didn't freeze even in the depths of boreal winter; the NASA calculation that 2005 had been the warmest year on record.

In January, a trinity of announcements sealed the mood. First, British scientist James Lovelock, who invented the instrument that allowed us to detect our eroding ozone layer, published an essay predicting that we'd already added too much CO2 to the atmosphere and that runaway global warming was inevitable. He predicted that billions will die this century. A few days later came a less dramatic but equally alarming announcement. The steady and long-serving NASA climatologist James Hansen defied federal attempts to gag him and told reporters that new calculations about, among other things, the instability of Greenland's ice shelf showed "we can't let it go on another ten years like this." If we did? Over time, the buildup of CO2 emissions would "imply changes that constitute practically a different planet." Less than ten years to reverse course. Not our kids' lifetimes, or our grandkids'. Ours. "

You can view the full essay at http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0608/voices.html

So with all this heat rising, things are bound to happen. The worst being the melting of our ice-caps. That makes sealevels rise at an alarming rate. Another thing that happens is that certain areas of our oceans get warmer, causing more, and stronger, tropical storms.

2005 was the warmest year on record, and also had the most and strongest tropical storms of late.

"These three monster storms were part of an unmatched run of Atlantic hurricanes—15 in all. With a total of 27 named tropical storms, 2005 was the first year meteorologists exhausted their preseason list of 21 Atlantic cyclone names and had to dip into the Greek alphabet for the latecomers. "

Sounds like one of those apocalypse scenarios, huh? Well, so far as the records show it is not just a possibility, so then why the scientific dispute? Well, contrary to what you may believe, there is a very clear cut answer to this question. There is little to no scientific dispute that global exists and is a problem.

So then, why don't we hear about it. That is less answerable and may very well not have an answer, and definately not one that I know. However much I would like to discuss this further, I have a third period class and this post is about jump topics.

-Peace,
Lazlo