GLOBAL WARMING FOR DUMMIES

GLOBAL WARMING FOR DUMMIES


Let me make this one easy even for Mike Savage, Neal Boortz and even Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh to understand. If you have a barrel of water, and you insulate it really good so that not much heat can escape, then you warm it really really slow, after a period of time the water inside will come to a boil, we can agree on that, right?

Now then we have evidence that before the advent of industry, and a long long time ago, even thousands of years, the earth warmed up due to nothing more than activity of the sun, the sun flares had caused the earth temperatures to rise, no problem? (Yes, there is a problem if you believe that earth and the heavens were only created less than seven thousand years ago, then for you I have no cure.) What this shows us that the earth ahs warmed and cooled over the millennia without the interference by the man, due to the solar activity, it also shows that under normal circumstances the earth retains the heat it can not radiate back into space, meaning that earth can radiate into space only a limited amount of energy, after which point the excess energy (heat) will be retained by the globe.

Even if their were no industry, no fossil fuel burning, we must realize that an increase in the earth population from less than a billion to over six billion in the last two hundred years; of itself will give rise to the earth’s temperatures. But then we realize once again that as the population of humans has increased, we have also needed to increase the number of animals that we raise for our consumption and all this increase in the number of animals being produced is also contributing to the excess heat being produced on the earth, and we are only talking about just the body heat of the massive numbers of humans and animals.

We have no need to talk about the esoteric, as fossil fuels being burned and the increases in the levels of carbon dioxide and methane gases and the carbon dioxide foot prints we can leave that to Al Gore, we just talking about the body heat( boy doesn’t that sound like a lot of fun, people!!!!) The question is can the earth easily dissipate this heat, can this heat be radiated out to the space? What will happen if it is not being radiated enough, will it cook us all in the long run?

Now then we can add this twist, we burn stuff to generate electricity, right? It could be coal, it could be oil, methane, it could even be garbage, but one thing this all does it that creates more heat, with some of this heat being retained in the atmosphere or being absorbed by the trees and the ocean waters.

Now you can add to this body heat and the heat generated by the power plants, not the car engines mind you just the power plants, not the people burning fuel to cook food either. there is still one other way we generate heat on this globe, and only I will tell you this one. Driving cars generates heat through friction with the air, that’s all.