Global Warming: Should We Care? Analysis of two sceptical articles.

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James Broderick

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11/15/12

Prof. Brooks Winchell

Global Warming: Should We Care?

        Global Warming is something of the minds of many.  Some know a lot about it, some know a little, and some simply do not care.  Personally, I am in the group of people who know a little about global warming, and it is a topic that I don’t feel effects me that much at this point.  After reading the essays “Global Warming: Is It All Hot Air” by Johns Hopkins University junior Dustin Lushing, and “Cold Water On Global Warming” by  Harvard graduate Thomas Sowell my beliefs were confirmed and I was offered more convincing evidence as to why Global Warming is being made a bigger deal than it needs to be.  

        In Dustin Lushing’s “Global Warming: Is it all Hot Air” he gives his point of view on global warming and what he sees at his University.  Lushing begins by talking about Al Gore’s documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” and how he has really caused a hysteria of sorts over this issue.  According to Lushing, Gore is seeking attention this way because he knows that the public is not that educated on the subjects and what he is saying is scary enough and plausible enough the nobody will question him.  Lushing is acknowledging that global warming does exist; he just believes that it is not as serious as Mr. Gore claims.  “Politics and science don’t mix” Lushing says this and gives a couple examples as to why this is.  One was when George Bush was asked about evolution and he said “the jury is still out”.  The other example was with Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist who diagnosed Terry Shiavo from a TiVo.   These example also support Lushing’s claim that if you give a politician a “sensitive scientific issue it will corrupted and stripped of many layers of truth in the hands of a politician”.  

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         Lushing cites a New York Times article where many very reputable scientists called Gore’s “central point exaggerated and erroneous”.  The author says that everyone agrees that global warming exsists but “how imminent is the threat”?  He says that the scientific community is divided on that question.  In the article many of the scientists call Gore’s science “basically sound”.  Lushing takes this as the scientists who said this don’t agree with Gore they are “selling out” to get recognized.  Lastly, he talks about what he has seen at his school.  The students that really are ecofriendly and want to help the ...

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