As many of you read in my last blog post, I thought that meal cards are a rip off. I still do believe that, but I think that it would be easier to debate but I think a more dire issue is at hand. The over use of the phrase global warming.
Global warming is not as bad as the press and all of the environmentalist make you believe. There are in fact many scientists who agree with me, but the environmentalist simply look over their studies and state that their way is the only way.
Ethos: There are many of your "trusted" environmentalist who show CO2 graphs where it starts at about the level of 280, and shows "how much" the CO2 levels have risen over the last thousand years, when in fact they have only fluctuated about to the level of 100 above the base level of 280, but it looks incredibly scary because the graph starts at the level of 280 and where most other points on the graph are around 300-320, the increase up to 380 seems incredibly freaky and scary. So why can't these environmentalist come up with things better then tricks to fool our eyes? It is simply because there is too much information on both sides of the global warming topic to be completely true.
Pathos: I know for a fact that everyone of you has seen at least some commercial on how the polar bears are dying, and how all of the ice burgs are melting near the North and South poles. You have probably also seem pictures of ice burg "calving" this is a completely natural process that occurs when an ice burg grows too large and moves out of its temperature patterns where it can remain the same spot, making it drift into warmer water and letting it go down a more normal size. This is completely normal and there is no need for alarm even though the hype now is that Florida and other areas of the world are going to be flooded because of the amount of ice that is melting. Have any of you even watched ice melt into water? Water is one of the few elements in the world that expands when it forms a solid, thus when it melts it shrinks. The influx of water based on the melting of ice burgs is nearly obsolete.
Logos: Everyone knows about how the environmentalist love to say how bad greenhouse gases are. It just seems that they never tell you what good they do. Because of the greenhouse effect from the ozone layer, we actually are able to live on this wonderful Earth. If we didn't have any greenhouse gases out planet would be like Mars. If you don't believe me simply go talk to Brother Platt in the Geography department. We spent about an hour talking about this in class today. It is fascinating, the greenhouse effect is what allows our home to be warm to have any fluctuation in temperature. Also the hype about the sudden rise in CO2 levels should not be alarming, the earth goes through cycles where the solubility of CO2 in water fluctuates, this has been tested and is proved by many scientists through looking at different CO2 levels in the ice caps in Antarctica and Greenland and areas such as that. This is nothing to be alarmed about.
