Scientists and Lies?

There are many problems with global warming. It is not just all the green house effects and the effects of the green house effects; it is a combination of things that include science and lack of unification.

When we mentioned the 31,000 scientists who opposed global warming in discussion, it was a great surprise because it felt like just a few years ago, we were unified under Al Gore’s The Inconvenient Truth, or at least somewhat unified. But knowing that so many scientists are doubting it makes it very difficult to come to a unified decision on the reality of what is happening to our world. Are we supposed to believe them because they are respected people, or do we disagree since we are currently feeling sudden changes in the weather. In the last 12 years, we have had the greatest number of warmest days in the winter. But these scientists were also falsifying information on charts and information given to the people? According to an article by Leo Hickman, scientists might be changing their views on global warming as a ploy to get attention. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2010/jun/21/trust-climate-scientists
Can we trust them? I feel like they are a reason for the lack of unification in society; how can we believe people who are also lying to us?

Another problem with global warming is that it will cost so much money and resources on trying to make “going green” work. Like Lyle had said, it cost $3 billion to create a green building in a desert. That was just one building, can you imagine a whole state let alone a nation? Who will have all the money for this? We also forgot about all the natural resources we will use up working with the solar panels and energy saving ways. Who will replenish the resources if they are already scarce?

Yet, Global Warming has done something very important for those who care enough to read about it and learn about it. It has taught us how lazy people have become. Life a hundred years ago was much more difficult than it is now, but we always seem to busy and in a rush to do so many things that we do not realize it. For example, we now have cars to take us where we want to go without using oil. Like we said in class, where can we find a electrical charger for the car in Flushing, and then a place and time to stand for a hour to wait for the car to charge? So is it the technologies fault or is it our own faults for being often too impatient to wait?