Common sense science is key to understanding Global Warming
Isabel P. Ball
April 07, 2007
“An Inconvenient Truth” documentary has earned Al Gore, a proponent of Global Warming, an Oscar for world activism.
The film documents the Earth’s sickly health condition, metaphorically speaking. Backed by the preponderant scientific studies revealing the prominent causes of the environmental and the weather absurdities we now experience on a global scope, threateningly, alarming, the situation begs our serious consideration to tackle the issue. Now, on hand, and realistically, is the biblical apocalypse, emerging to be our own making.
On this monumental issue, however, lies a disconcerting thought. Among scientists is a fractious belief. Some are in the opinion that the earth, though injured and very much damaged, does not rise to an alarming level of a seeming irreversibility, as being pictured by Al Gore and the supporting colleagues of scientists. Simply, the deviating opinions are a validation of a point that people are basically divided. Whether politically, financially, or for whatever motivations they may have, there are those nonbelievers who even go maligning the sensible heads as nothing but soothsayers. We are evidently wired to being divisive creatures, and a perfect score is highly unattainable. But we have a common sense, which is a natural human endowment, to act as our simple guide, to help us understand without having to delve into the rocket science part of global warming analysis. However, the problem, as I see it, common sense is strong and active in some, and to the many, requiring a startling reawakening.
As claimed in the documentary, global warming is directly linked to the humanity’s grand scale use and dependency on fuel fossil to operate its life-sustaining/supporting machineries and systems, for centuries. Even our own basic existence is dependent on cooking our food using earth materials, such as firewood, the means that still many backward cultures use, is also collectively toxic to our Earth.
The problem of an alarming global warming can be explained by the fact that, as with other human inventions, gas fuel and its after-effect, were not pre-tested. And lacking any guideline, man’s natural behavior; ignorant and unconcerned, about the health of the planet, proves a case and point to our habitual abusiveness.
Man’s invented machines had continually emitted fumes and exhausts directly into the atmosphere. Up there, these chemicals are entrapped by gravity, so powerful, it is keeping everything ground-bound, and naturally demonstrated to us by the falling apple principle discovered for us by Sir Isaac Newton. Further, gravity is a solid fact, so established in the natural laws that everything in the solar system is held in place by it.
So strong is the pull of our gravity that Astronauts use hydrogen-propelled rockets to pull out of the earth’s gravity, and out into the non-gravity zone space. As gravity-defying machines have added to the mundane cycle of life, I can only wonder what the futuristic effect of such machines would to our earth, and to the yet vastly unknown spatial territories.
Though a future inter-cosmos travel and habitation are being positively projected as alternatives to us Earthlings, the massive investments in resources and manpower makes it an implausible project. And, in the case, that it succeeds, then what would be the consequences to us, humans who must consume and excrete garbage so as to live? Again, that is a scenario I would liken to our present predicament on Earth that we ourselves pollute as we exercise our right to exist.
Back to Earth and the garbage problems. The toxic materials swirling around up in the atmosphere, after interference with the Mother Nature’s processes, comes back to Earth falling to the ground and into the water systems manifesting as a poison called acid rain. The accumulation over the many years of air pollution staying in the atmosphere reacted like acid, destroying some valuable protective natural chemistry, collectively, layer of our ozone that shields us from receiving strong dose of the sun’s radiation.
Men, for centuries, have assaulted the Earth, unknowingly, on all fronts: on the ground, air, and in the water. On the earth, heaping tonnages of human refuse and from man-made materials, formally, toxic waste, are dumped unconcernedly. The water acquifers from where our oceans, seas, rivers and streams feed from are now also threatened, as percolation, another scientific principle, allows to the seeping of pollution into the earth’s mantle and to its crust, eventually. It is not a rocket science, so to speak, to understand a prevailing principle that our Earth is a balanced composition, interacting, and intertwining. There is a need for all other systems to be in check and healthy, in order for the hale of Earth to continue to sustain our existence, and maybe, just maybe, there lies our immortality, if a certain ratio and balance is met and kept. But while we make our earth sick, we, following the principle of dispersion and contamination, would soon be sneezing as we catch the bug.
A united scientific verdict would have been powerful to prod people into action, for instance, to de-scale a high-end lifestyle, mend consumer habits, change attitude and values. Personally, to me, global warming is a stark reality. As a B student in Physics in high school, surprisingly, a strong common sense has capably aided me in the understanding of the simplicity of the principles behind global warming. Now, I’m astute enough to even conclude, based on these operating principles, that man is pretty much a trapped species, like the rest of its cohabitants.
The film documents the Earth’s sickly health condition, metaphorically speaking. Backed by the preponderant scientific studies revealing the prominent causes of the environmental and the weather absurdities we now experience on a global scope, threateningly, alarming, the situation begs our serious consideration to tackle the issue. Now, on hand, and realistically, is the biblical apocalypse, emerging to be our own making.
On this monumental issue, however, lies a disconcerting thought. Among scientists is a fractious belief. Some are in the opinion that the earth, though injured and very much damaged, does not rise to an alarming level of a seeming irreversibility, as being pictured by Al Gore and the supporting colleagues of scientists. Simply, the deviating opinions are a validation of a point that people are basically divided. Whether politically, financially, or for whatever motivations they may have, there are those nonbelievers who even go maligning the sensible heads as nothing but soothsayers. We are evidently wired to being divisive creatures, and a perfect score is highly unattainable. But we have a common sense, which is a natural human endowment, to act as our simple guide, to help us understand without having to delve into the rocket science part of global warming analysis. However, the problem, as I see it, common sense is strong and active in some, and to the many, requiring a startling reawakening.
As claimed in the documentary, global warming is directly linked to the humanity’s grand scale use and dependency on fuel fossil to operate its life-sustaining/supporting machineries and systems, for centuries. Even our own basic existence is dependent on cooking our food using earth materials, such as firewood, the means that still many backward cultures use, is also collectively toxic to our Earth.
The problem of an alarming global warming can be explained by the fact that, as with other human inventions, gas fuel and its after-effect, were not pre-tested. And lacking any guideline, man’s natural behavior; ignorant and unconcerned, about the health of the planet, proves a case and point to our habitual abusiveness.
Man’s invented machines had continually emitted fumes and exhausts directly into the atmosphere. Up there, these chemicals are entrapped by gravity, so powerful, it is keeping everything ground-bound, and naturally demonstrated to us by the falling apple principle discovered for us by Sir Isaac Newton. Further, gravity is a solid fact, so established in the natural laws that everything in the solar system is held in place by it.
So strong is the pull of our gravity that Astronauts use hydrogen-propelled rockets to pull out of the earth’s gravity, and out into the non-gravity zone space. As gravity-defying machines have added to the mundane cycle of life, I can only wonder what the futuristic effect of such machines would to our earth, and to the yet vastly unknown spatial territories.
Though a future inter-cosmos travel and habitation are being positively projected as alternatives to us Earthlings, the massive investments in resources and manpower makes it an implausible project. And, in the case, that it succeeds, then what would be the consequences to us, humans who must consume and excrete garbage so as to live? Again, that is a scenario I would liken to our present predicament on Earth that we ourselves pollute as we exercise our right to exist.
Back to Earth and the garbage problems. The toxic materials swirling around up in the atmosphere, after interference with the Mother Nature’s processes, comes back to Earth falling to the ground and into the water systems manifesting as a poison called acid rain. The accumulation over the many years of air pollution staying in the atmosphere reacted like acid, destroying some valuable protective natural chemistry, collectively, layer of our ozone that shields us from receiving strong dose of the sun’s radiation.
Men, for centuries, have assaulted the Earth, unknowingly, on all fronts: on the ground, air, and in the water. On the earth, heaping tonnages of human refuse and from man-made materials, formally, toxic waste, are dumped unconcernedly. The water acquifers from where our oceans, seas, rivers and streams feed from are now also threatened, as percolation, another scientific principle, allows to the seeping of pollution into the earth’s mantle and to its crust, eventually. It is not a rocket science, so to speak, to understand a prevailing principle that our Earth is a balanced composition, interacting, and intertwining. There is a need for all other systems to be in check and healthy, in order for the hale of Earth to continue to sustain our existence, and maybe, just maybe, there lies our immortality, if a certain ratio and balance is met and kept. But while we make our earth sick, we, following the principle of dispersion and contamination, would soon be sneezing as we catch the bug.
A united scientific verdict would have been powerful to prod people into action, for instance, to de-scale a high-end lifestyle, mend consumer habits, change attitude and values. Personally, to me, global warming is a stark reality. As a B student in Physics in high school, surprisingly, a strong common sense has capably aided me in the understanding of the simplicity of the principles behind global warming. Now, I’m astute enough to even conclude, based on these operating principles, that man is pretty much a trapped species, like the rest of its cohabitants.
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