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Greenhouse Effect - A Growing Problem

By Yvonne Mustafelli

The greenhouse effect is a simple idea. Farmers commonly use a building made of glass to grow plants during the cooler months of the year. This glass holds in the heat of the sun making the environment inside the green house optimal for plant growth. The Earth is out green house, but the upper most layer is permeable so excess heat reflected from the Earth’s surface can escape back into space.

When fossil fuels became popular, the ozone layer was intact, protecting humans and animals from harmful UV rays and the heat flow into and out of the atmosphere was perfect. Then, everything changed. Fossil fuels like coal gained quickly in popularity as the cost of heating a home, warming water and producing gasoline was minimal. Everyone could afford the amenities that were once reserved for the richest of families.

As more and more fossil fuels were burned, gasses started collected inside the atmosphere. These gasses stop the extra heat from escaping just as the glass roof and walls do in a green house. The result is called the greenhouse effect.

As the Earth warms, animal and human habitats are changing. Water temperatures are rising and polar ice caps are melting. Some scientists believe that desalination of salty water sources could spell the end of the world while others still maintain that global warming as a result of the greenhouse effect is simply natural and expected.

Global Warming - Climate Change Distortions

By Brian H Campbell

The Copenhagen Climate Summit on global warming was a disaster in the making. Anthropogenic or man-made global warming is still hotly disputed. Many believe there is a small amount of anthropogenic warming but not enough to enact life altering regulations. The United States economy is in a recession with unemployment over 10% yet Secretary of State Hillary Clinton promised the moon to developing countries. Sure the 100 billion dollars promised is suppose to be from what the U.S. can gather from other industrialized nations too. But how? It does not stop at 100 billion either.

The 100 billion is suppose to be an annual figure by 2020 which can plunge the U.S. into a deeper recession. And do you think for a minute that most of the monies will not come from the United States? People complained about President Bush throwing money around. The Obama administration with bailouts, stimulus cash and a proposed healthcare legislation have a deficit in the trillions of dollars. And this is not including hundreds of billions of dollars allocated to cap and trade at the Copenhagen Climate Summit.

Recent confiscated emails on prominent scientists changing global warming reports to deceive the world brought shame to the Summit. You are talking about the entire world’s monetary system being affected by distorted reports on global warming. An email also used the word “trick”, meaning that they would pull a fast one on the scientific community. In turn from the scientific community these reports are filtered down to the public as fact. World leaders then make decisions on these so called facts that can affect employment, taxes, energy cost, the environment and more. What is nuts is that many of these leaders want to still make these life altering decisions knowing facts have been distorted.

The reason is because there is much more behind the climate change debate then meets the eye. While some are sincere others are power and money hungry. Do you realize how easy it is for some companies to under report their ability to control pollution within their company? Why would this matter? Because by under reporting the companies can receive millions of dollars of cap and trade credits for what they already have. Mankind can become evil and deceitful when it comes to the love of money and power.