2008 Woodie Awards
Global warming does not stand up to intense scrutiny
Creel O'Neil
Issue date: 12/7/07 Section: OpEd Page
I am one of the few people who actually welcomes the cold bite of the winter wind. I welcome the fall of a fresh snow as much as I love a sun-glistened beach on a warm summer day. I certainly am not one for dogmatism and, as such, don't hold any one season over the other. I love the changes and the new seasons and scenery they bring. I must admit, however, that I've been eagerly anticipating the final settling of the winter. This is in part because of the fact that I love the snow, snowboarding and hiking while the snow is covering the trail. Yet, on the other hand, I'm glad simply because it took so long to get here. Some of my friends joke that the prolonged warm season was because of global warming. Though it was a joke, I took to seriously thinking about the subject and, as always, went well off the deep end with it.
I eventually came to one question-are we pursuing and aggrandizing global warming because of our deepest drive to understand the complex and unimaginably amazing science behind the workings of our planet, solar system, galaxy, and universe? Or, like so many other endeavors, are we politicizing the subject, either way, because of our ideological dogmatisms? Obviously, there's no one answer, the world doesn't work that way. There is, however, a mountain of evidence to support the idea that the situation is falling heavily into the latter category. I've read as many reports as possible from as many officials as I can about their opinions on the subject and, contrary to where I stood before my research, I have to say I'm not convinced anymore that we're the prime cause of global warming. That is to say, I do not think the case is closed on the anthropomorphic global warming theory. Before you, the reader, dismiss me as a nut with no intelligence or insight, please read my case and research the information. To me, it seems that the entire science and occurrence of global warming demonstrates a beautiful and intrinsic connection throughout not only our world, but our solar system and our galaxy as well. I mean to say that this problem sheds light on something much more massive and monolithic, but something undoubtedly important to our understanding of the universe.
I eventually came to one question-are we pursuing and aggrandizing global warming because of our deepest drive to understand the complex and unimaginably amazing science behind the workings of our planet, solar system, galaxy, and universe? Or, like so many other endeavors, are we politicizing the subject, either way, because of our ideological dogmatisms? Obviously, there's no one answer, the world doesn't work that way. There is, however, a mountain of evidence to support the idea that the situation is falling heavily into the latter category. I've read as many reports as possible from as many officials as I can about their opinions on the subject and, contrary to where I stood before my research, I have to say I'm not convinced anymore that we're the prime cause of global warming. That is to say, I do not think the case is closed on the anthropomorphic global warming theory. Before you, the reader, dismiss me as a nut with no intelligence or insight, please read my case and research the information. To me, it seems that the entire science and occurrence of global warming demonstrates a beautiful and intrinsic connection throughout not only our world, but our solar system and our galaxy as well. I mean to say that this problem sheds light on something much more massive and monolithic, but something undoubtedly important to our understanding of the universe.
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Red Hott
posted 12/07/07 @ 9:55 AM EST
Creel O'Neil has been watching a little too much Fox News! The oceans are a carbon sink, not a carbon source. They absorb CO2. Essentially everything stated in Mr. (Continued…)
Interested Alumnus
posted 12/08/07 @ 3:22 PM EST
In response to Red Hott and his/her typical visceral hatred of the current administration, please note the following. If this is not scientific enough for you, I'll try to explain it in smaller words:
"A concern related to the ongoing rise in the air's CO2 concentration is the worry that it may lead to
catastrophic global warming. (Continued…)
Red Hott
posted 12/08/07 @ 9:43 PM EST
Of course, you have not refuted a single point I made. Again, the oceans currently (ha-ha) are a carbon sink, not a carbon source as claimed by Creel O'Neil. (Continued…)
Wright Contributor
posted 12/10/07 @ 12:45 AM EST
AGW stands for Anthropogenic Global Warming. Anthropomorphic GW would involve GW donning human characteristics in some fun-filled children's novel.
Patrick Frank
posted 12/11/07 @ 4:35 AM EST
Creel, your better than this. Now I know there are some things about global warming science that don't make much sense, and your right there is room for scrutiny. (Continued…)
Jeff Simpson
posted 12/11/07 @ 11:02 AM EST
Red Hott and Frank, keep drinking your liberal kool-aid. Let me repeat what the author correctly stated...there has never been any scientific link with CO2 emissions and temperature fluctuations. (Continued…)
Interested Alumnus
posted 12/11/07 @ 11:35 AM EST
Thank you, Red Hott, for confirming my statement regarding the hatred and ignorance of your extremist, left wing arguments. First of all, the FACTS I posted are undisputed. (Continued…)
Joe S
posted 12/11/07 @ 7:28 PM EST
No, Miami isn't slipping. It's just that the volume and attention given to the left-wing kooks by the drive-by media has spurred a new "movement" in this country, particularly among younger demographics. (Continued…)
Red Hott
posted 12/11/07 @ 8:04 PM EST
>>>>I don't know what the so-called "CO2 Science" web site is where you imagine these facts originate<<<<
Gee, I don't know how I could have found that site. (Continued…)
Interested Alumnus
posted 12/12/07 @ 10:36 AM EST
Sorry Red Hott but, as usual, you're wrong. I've NEVER even heard of a web site called CO2 Science, but you go ahead and comfort yourself with your name calling. (Continued…)
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