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What is the culprit behind Global Warming? Most say Carbon Dioxide is behind it, human activity has pumped more CO2 into the atmosphere than ever before, and according to former vice president Al Gore the only way to stop it is by replacing every bulb in your home with fluorescent light bulbs, purchase hybrid cars, and purchasing carbon offsets from the company that he owns. The climate system is very diverse and complicated, it is a fact that there is not a single person on the Earth that knows even a quarter of what there is to know about the climate system, what we do know is this:
In the last few years (roughly 20) there have been major fluctuations in the climate, about 10 years ago the Earth was going through a major cooling cycle which was going to lead up to the next ice age (oh no!), but now the Earth is going through a massive heating cycle which is melting the ice caps, with no one to explain that sudden change in what's happening. We also know that because of human activity (America is obviously the most to blame) there has been a huge jump in CO2 in the Earth's atmosphere and that is heating the Earth, melting the ice, throwing off currents, killing numerous endangered species, etc.

What we also know is that the climate system is incredibly complicated, no one has any hard grasp on why the Earth does what it does, we know for fact that the Earth has gone through at least 3 major heating and cooling periods. What else is fact? You might be asking yourself that when confronted with this information, we know that human activity in the last 200 years has pumped roughly 30 billion pounds of CO2 into the atmosphere, this may seem like a daunting number, but guess how many pounds of atmosphere there actually is. A rough estimate is aroun 4 quadrillion pounds of atmosphere.
What can we take from Al Gore's video An Inconvenient Truth?
Well a few things we can take from it is this:
1. Human activity has caused some fluctuation in the natural course of things, nothing that is irreparable, mind you. But a fluctuation nonetheless.
2. The ice caps are slowly melting, this melting will cause many species to perish, but not only this, coastal cities will be under water, and the natural currents of the world will go out of whack, killing many more species, as well as throwing off the wind systems, and putting the world at an environmental stand still.
3. Al Gore likes himself A LOT, also is a poor loser.
Those are just 3 things that we can take from his video. An Inconvenient Truth, does show the inconvenience, somehow mankind is solely responsible for this travesty. This is our fault, and we have to fix it, and we can fix it. What we can do is drive cars with less emissions, donate ridiculous amounts of money to help refreeze the ice caps by placing giant ice cubes into the ocean, and we can stop our mining, and everything else that puts any sort of bad stuff into the air. Because we know it is bad, we need to stop. Just like farming tobacco when he was a boy, his dad found out it was bad, and he didn't stop doing it. Yes, but Al, that tobacco money gave you a college education, and put you on a pretty good start so that you can be the environmental hero you are today.

What else can we take from Al Gore's video? He never actually gives any of his sources names, unless of course their names are "my friend", "my friend the scientist, or "a friend of mine". Al might not be able to sight sources, but I can:
"Laboratory experiments have shown that there are so-called 'endocrine disruptors' present in in forty-three different foods common in human diet, including corn, garlic, pineapple, potatoes and wheat. Most amusingly, soybean, that product so beloved of the vegetarian liberal environmentalist, is a particularly potent source of phytoestrogens. One study found that, even ten years ago, the U.S. soy harvest was producing about 230 million pounds of thos natural endocrine modulators annually."- Iain Murray, The Really Inconvenient Truths, The Pill as a Pollutant.
"I'll admit to being conflicted on the subject of renewable sources of energy like wind and solar. While these do have their place in the energy mix, their ability to help the global warming problem is pretty limited. I routinely encounter people who argue that renewable sources of energy can 'fix' global warming. But the global demand for energy is so large that renewables will probably never be able to substantially contribute to our needs."- Roy W. Spencer, Climate Confusion, chapter 8.

These two men are both scientists that have degrees in studying the climate system, and have been doing so for many years unlike, Al Gore. These two men I see as realists, they see the world as it is, and deal with it as such. They understand that Global Warming is a universal world problem that can't just be solved by delusional "fix-its" like the sudden introduction of renewable resources, or in Al Gore's case, dropping giant ice cubes into the ocean.

-Remix Theory