My take on Global Warming

I am certainly no scientist, but I would like to think I have the ability to use common sense and logic, so here goes.  Ever notice how if you watch one of these shows, that believes global warming is about to end the world, and they show "compelling" evidence of glaciers melting.  Do you notice that the water around the glacier are not ice?  Do you think it's possible they only show the glacier's melting when it's "summer" in the Arctic?  I know it's been a long time since I was in school, but I do remember being taught that when it is above 32 degrees, ice melts, or at least doesn't freeze anymore.  So you will have to excuse me if I don't find glaciers melting, when the temperature is above 32 degrees, to be hard facts for global warming.  And since, most of these shows don't actually show real factual numbers of the glaciers decreasing, my common sense tells me they are only showing the side of the argument that fits their story.

Another major talking point for global warming is Co2 levels, and honestly I don't have the numbers to show what they actually are, instead I would like to use common sense.  Anyone ever hear of  photosynthesis, probably right?  It's the process in which plant life breathes in carbon dioxide, and releases oxygen back into the air.  Using common sense, isn't it possible that plant life helps reduce the carbon levels that we are told are causing global warming?  I wouldn't necessarily know because when you listen to Al Gore talk about global warming, somehow that topic doesn't come up.

These are just two of my opinions on why global warming doesn't make sense to me, but being that I'm not a scientist, your probably thinking, well what does he know anyways.  So let me use some factual evidence from wikipedia.

  "Carbon dioxide is essential to photosynthesis in plants and other photoautotrophs, and is also a prominent greenhouse gas. Despite its relatively small overall concentration in the atmosphere, CO₂ is an important component of Earth's atmosphere because it absorbs and emits infrared radiation at wavelengths of 4.26 µm (asymmetric stretching vibrational mode) and 14.99 µm (bending vibrational mode), thereby playing a role in the greenhouse effect.^[3] The present level is higher than at any time during the last 800 thousand years,^[4] and likely higher than in the past 20 million years."<sup>[5]

Typical in the global warming argument, that you have two sides of the story contradicting the other.  In one sentence it says carbon dioxide is important to the earth, and it has a very small overall concentration.  At the end of the statement, it tells you that it's higher than it's ever been in the past 800 thousand years.  So which is it?  I would believe both to be true, but the first part is the more important part of the story, that you normally don't hear.


"The Earth's oceans contain a huge amount of carbon dioxide in the form of bicarbonate and carbonate ions — much more than the amount in the atmosphere. The bicarbonate is produced in reactions between rock, water, and carbon dioxide. One example is the dissolution of calcium carbonate:</sup>

CaCO₃ + CO₂ + H₂O ⇌ Ca²⁺ + 2 HCO− 3

Reactions like this tend to buffer changes in atmospheric CO₂. Since the right-hand side of the reaction produces an acidic compound, adding CO₂ on the left-hand side decreases the pH of sea water, a process which has been termed ocean acidification. Reactions between carbon dioxide and non-carbonate rocks also add bicarbonate to the seas. This can later undergo the reverse of the above reaction to form carbonate rocks, releasing half of the bicarbonate as CO₂. Over hundreds of millions of years this has produced huge quantities of carbonate rocks.
Ultimately, most of the CO₂ emitted by human activities will dissolve in the ocean,^[26] however the rate at which the ocean will take it up in the future is less certain."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_in_Earth's_atmosphere



Did wikipedia just say that most of the Co2 emitted by humans will dissolve??  Of course the rest of this page ignores that, and talks about how Co2 levels are so high they can't be reversed and global warming is upon us.  So what are to we believe wikipedia??  I think ultimately we don't know, but instead of saying that, they would rather use the evidence to further an agenda like pushing green energy sources.  So maybe global warming is real, maybe it isn't, I think that trying to better the earth we live in makes sense on any level.  But I think that the majority of people pushing the global warming theory(a proposed explanation whose status is still conjectural, in contrast to well-established propositions that are regarded as reporting matters of actual fact), are generally just doing so to improve their bottom line, and not because they care so much about the earth and the enviroment.