Global Warming

I have considered myuself an environmentalest since I was young. The trend continues as my son will be going to Penn State in the fall to study Environmental Science. My belief is global warming is a fact ... not something to be debated anymore. The debate is what and how much we do to try and slow it's effects.

• "During a speech today, President Bush said “First of all, the globe is warming. The fundamental debate — is it manmade or natural?” Actually, that’s no longer a debate, at least among the overwhelming majority of scientists."
• "In a report to the United Nations, the Environmental Protection Agency says that man-made greenhouse gases in the US will increase 43 percent between 2000 and 2020. And while acknowledging some scientific uncertainties, the EPA says that the recent warming trend “is real and has been particularly strong within the past 20 years … due mostly to human activities.”

Both of the above comments are pulled from Think Progress. So doesn't the President listen to his own EPA? Maybe we should just drill for more oil in Alaska. That will solve the problem!

Think Progress - Bush Says Global Warming May Be “Natural”

• "According to Time, "the global climate seems to be crashing around us," and that "this is precisely what [scientists] have been warning would happen if we continued pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, trapping the heat that flows from the sun and raising global temperatures." Time points to heat waves, floods, storms fires and glacial melts as evidence that we've reached a "tipping point" and says "scientists have been calling this shot for decades."

This came from a good piece on TCS. The problem is at times there is no reasonable middle ground in the debate. This just seems to happen to much in America today.

TCS Daily - Something to Worry About