Global Warming-How It Could Spark World War III

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Post by Ba Kiwanuka

These Days global warming is a really hot topic and little wonder, seeing as the earth grows hotter with every passing year.

For a long time now the effect of man’s industrialization and technological progress has quietly but continuously eked away at the delicate balance of the planet’s atmosphere and ecosystem, but inside the last 30 or so years the pace of this harm has markedly accelerated!

Downplaying Global Warming

In a lot the identical way that Large Tobacco when vehemently denied the association between cigarette smoking and lung cancer, for the longest time a number of multi-billion-dollar-a-year industries have also been questioning the existence of global warming and misleading the public about its reality.

In truth the Bush II years have been certain devastating to Environmental Protection Rights, but staggeringly lucrative for those who would profit from the loss of such protection.

In what can ideal be described as an orgy-fest of self-congratulatory backslapping, many a heavyweight lobbyist for industries such as oil, coal, mining, logging, aviation, auto producers have left the Bush Whitehouse grinning like the proverbial Cheshire cat since they’d gotten firm assurance that pesky environmental laws would in no way get in the way of organization as usual!

An example of how the Bush II Administration misled the public into believing they had been genuinely concerned about protecting the atmosphere was the sneaky way in which they enacted laws such as The Clean Skies Act.

The Clean Skies Act introduced in February 2003 apparently appears to strengthen already existent environmental laws such as The Clean Air Act but which in reality actually weakened and undermined them.

The Clean Skies Act gave pollutant industries a lot of leeway permitting them to spew an further 42 million much more tons of pollution into the atmosphere and raised caps on greenhouse gas emissions.

Soon soon after Bush II came to power the circumstance got so poor, that after decades of successful service, two of the most senior enforcement officials in the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) resigned citing an agency that was pursuing contrary goals to that of really protecting the environment.

Former US vice president Al Gore is no stranger to these tactics. As possibly the most widely recognizable face in the fight against global warming he has been scoffed at and ridiculed by the very same people who would have us believe global warming is nothing more than a myth!

Lately in 2007 many scientists have gone on public record citing claims of a Gestapo-like environment of intimidation to create figures and reports that belied the correct extent of global warming!

Trigger Of Global Warming

The unprecedented super-accelerated rate of global warming happening these days is due to the quantity of greenhouse gases being spewed into the atmosphere.

The most notorious greenhouse gas is carbon dioxide (CO2) due to the fact it so happens to be the biggest single contributing aspect to global warming (CO2 comprises a lot more than 75% of all greenhouse gases). So what’s spewing all that CO2 in the air? Merely put–mankind and his toys!

Some of the greatest greenhouse gas pollutants consist of automobiles electricity production planes shipping and the different manufacturing industries dotted all over the globe.

Science Of Global Warming

This post is intentionally not an in-depth treatise of the approach of global warming, but having stated that, here’s a brief explanation:

The rays from the sun are comprised of shortwave solar radiation which pass via the atmosphere and are then absorbed by the earth thereby warming it. Component of that absorbed power is reflected back to the atmosphere as long wave infrared radiation which is mainly trapped by the greenhouse gases. This trapped heat ensures that the earth is approximately warmer by 33 degrees Celsius than it would otherwise be.

This trapped heat is really very good for us, for had been it not for those greenhouse gases and other constituents in the atmosphere that trap heat, the earth would be as cold as Mars which has for all intents and purpose no atmosphere to speak of.

More than the past century the earth has gotten warmer by around .7 degrees Celsius. This might not seem like considerably till you contemplate that the distinction among the typical earth temperature of these days and yet another ice age is a mere five degrees Celsius!

Effects Of Global Warming

Drought! Flooding! Illness! Hurricanes! Starvation! Unbearable Heat!
Any of these words seem to you to be appearing significantly a lot more typically in the news than before?

Do you remember the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that claimed much more than 200,000 individuals? Keep in mind hurricane Katrina that claimed more than 2,000 lives? These are the far better documented horror stories. The less properly documented global-warming related stories are frequently dismissively written off as ethnic conflicts in a region (Africa) exactly where supposedly little else can be expected.

Catastrophic Environmental Effects Brought on By Global Warming

1. Larsen B Ice Shelf: In 2002, a 500 billion ton chunk of ice that was 220m thick and covering a surface area of 3,250 sq km disintegrated in 35 days! What was particularly alarming was that the specialists expected this ice shelf to still be about for the next 100 years even right after factoring in existing global warming trends.

But a lot more alarming nonetheless is that there’re two other Much, Considerably Larger ice masses that are exhibiting the same global warming related disintegration characteristics!

These endangered ice masses are Greenland and the West Antarctic Ice Shelf which was previously thought to be stable. Considering that these ice masses are land based (not like the Larsen B Ice Shelf) if either 1 of them goes they could raise sea levels by 20ft apiece!

If each of them disintegrate about the very same time, sea levels could rise by 40ft! Catastrophic does not adequately describe the ensuing destruction.

More than 66% of the world’s largest cities would be devastated if even just 1 of these ice masses disintegrated. Though numerous of the affected low-elevation costal places are located in Asia, New York, Florida, San Francisco and The Netherlands are also on the list!

Maybe this disturbing information may explain the belated, albeit grudging acknowledgement by the Bush II administration that global warming is not a myth following all and that it will not just have an effect on the poorer regions of the world. As issues stand, authorities are predicting that with present unmodified global warming trends Greenland may collapse as soon as 2050.

2. Lake Chad: Lake Chad used to be the 6th largest lake in the globe but due to global warming has shrunk to 1/20th of its former size. In fact Chad the country for which it is named right after, is now a lot more than 60 miles from the water’s edge!

three. New Ice Age: The northern hemisphere of the world is located above the equator and constitutes most of the world’s land mass as nicely as virtually 90% of the world population.

Although existing professional reports on global warming imply that the northern hemisphere will initially actually benefit from the temperature increase (unlike the southern hemisphere exactly where unprecedented drought and starvation is predicted by 2020) what is small mentioned is how global warming could usher in a new Ice Age!

Some paradox, huh? Warming leading to freezing! Here’s a brief simplified explanation of how that comes about:

The Gulf Stream present is 1 of numerous currents that happen in the Atlantic Ocean. The specific importance of the Gulf Stream Existing and its northern extension (the North Atlantic Drift which flows towards Europe) is that their warm-water flow heats up the surrounding air which in turn ensures that the temperature of the northern hemispheres does not dip precipitously.

These two currents are saline (salt) based. If a huge mass of fresh water (such as a melting body of ice the size of Greenland) was to dilute these currents, in impact that would shut down the Gulf Stream Current!

As soon as the Gulf Stream Current shuts down temperatures are going to drop precariously in the United States, Europe and other nations located in the northern hemisphere. When that occurs those regions will deep-freeze into yet another Ice Age!

Global Warming And The CO2 Wars

The following figures illustrate the CO2 emissions from the various regions about the globe:

USA: 30.three%
Europe: 27.7%
Russia: 13.7%
South East Asia: 12.2%
Japan: three.7%
South America/Central America: 3.8%
Middle East: two.6%
Africa: two.5%
Australia: 1.1%

These figures amply illustrate how Western Europe and the United States are by far largely responsible for the effects of global warming we are seeing today.

Contrastingly the regions least responsible are the ones that will bear the brunt of those effects (initially at any rate, until such time that the method progresses to an ice age then the scenario will reverse).

Nevertheless, with the two mega economies of China and India expanding quickly (every boasting a population in excess of 1 billion) soon their greenhouse gas emissions may possibly surpass those of the U.S.

A series of meetings held in Washington in early 2007 had American legislators demanding that creating nations be held to the very same greenhouse-gas-emission accountability as the created nations! Not unexpectedly there were worldwide outcries and accusations of shameless hypocrisy leveled at the United States.

With the not unreasonable contention that they have the appropriate to create and advance in the exact same manner that both Europe and America have enjoyed more than the past forty years these two looming economical giants are not about