Read some newspaper headlines lately and the message will tell you that this world is getting warmer. Is it really ? Are we over reacting by placing we humans with the blame because of our occupancy and use of the resources for our benefits over the ages ?
Global warming seems by some to be only a passing phenomenon. To others, it's a well established fact. Even a few years ago, there was very little talk about this ecological dilemma. It is now seen on much of the almost daily news, in major magazines, along with the "man on the street" conservation of the day and has also been made into a movie to promote the cause and to convince the world. Of course, anyone can just stroll through one of our larger industry laden cities here in the U.S. and sometimes cut the smog with a knife. It is not as though we are not dealing with the problem, but as we manage to cut 1 or 2 percent of the previous year's pollution level, the same city increases its industrial pollution output by 2 or 3 percent more, thus negating the efforts in those areas. Because we are a nation of easy living and comfort where many of our chores are more and more being automated for us and with it requiring a greater expenditure of energy, it seems like a never ending battle.
What about the automotive industry ?
We must all admit one thing to be a fact, the automobile for the past 100 years has dominated the american means of transportation. It has slowly increased energy consumption from the beginning to where it must now be dealt with very seriously, lowering the amount of fuel used per mile for each car on the road. We are now mixing ethanol with our present gasoline in the present amount of about 10 %, but this is certainly going to increase in the near future. This will help decrease our present oil imports, but will it help reverse the thermal increase of our exosphere , built up over the many past decades ?
There Is One Thing All Of Mankind Cannot Deny...
In the last 100 years or so, we have certainly produced more heat per day from our daily needs than at any other time in the previous history of mankind. Today, it has been calculated that our total daily consumption of energy is approximately 95 quadrillion BTU. Since the approximate weight of the earth's total atmosphere is close to 5 quadrillion metric tons, does it take a rocket scientist to extrapolate over time the effects this could have on the total change in temperature accrued since the time of the great industrial revolution ?
Does anyone have an idea for its reversal ?
Scientists are confident that we...the world can find a working solution and that the continued increase of late in the use of Solar, Wind, Geothermal, etc., renewable energy sources will both help reverse the accrued increase in global temperature along with a corresponding lowering in the global pollution levels, which are due to the byproducts released in the production of daily energy needs. There is one absolute truth about this dilemma, i.e.,...we all have to work together to help make it normal again and not wait until a time of convenience, or there may not be any more time...then.
