Fallacy of Global Warming
Given the geological evidence that has been shown throughout the years, it seems to me that global warming is more of a climate trend than a viable issue in society. People tend to amplify the effects of scientific information without understanding it. Technology becomes more sophisticated and we are able to uncover more about our past than ever before, and evidence has been shown to infer that our earth has been getting warmer over the past few centuries. Predictions involving global warming are fairly new assertions that have recently caused a worldwide change in lifestyle. These changes are no doubt for the better, but let’s not forget the Second Law of Thermodynamics, originally thought to be formed by a French physicist during the nineteenth century. Within the theory, objects are said to lose caloric energy and transfer to heat energy that is lost in the environment. In other words, no transfer of energy can be performed without a loss of energy able to perform work. Our world is in a state of potential entropy, every particle and essence attempting to break free from its organized form. Heat energy transfer loss is inevitable but does leave us with the question; can we really do anything about it? We in society become likened to sheep who follow the Shepard upon coercion, chasing the tails of popular science to no avail of consistent result.
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I have not ever heard of the second law of thermodynamics, or any other law for that matter. But reading about it now has raised that same question in my mind as well. IF this “law” is true, then would not our own breathing be contributing to the rise in temperature? The process through which our bodies convert oxygen into carbon dioxide and the process where plants take that CO2 and convert it back into breathable air, both produce a lot of heat; hence why our breath always feels so hot on our hands. and if so then wouldn’t our sudden drastic rises in population over the last few hundred years have affected the global temperatures; maybe more than cows and airplanes? As bodies decompose, as things grow, as we build and force things into other forms we are producing more and more heat. Most things we cannot prevent from happening and those that we can we “need” to survive. I don’t think that we as people can do anything to “prevent” global warming.
Planet Earth is her own doctor. Everything is cyclical. she will fix herself when she feels that it is time. LIke the phoenix she will grow and get “old” catch fire and rise again brand new from her own ashes; metaphorically speaking of course. But she will never let herself go so far that she will not be able to sustain our lives. If God is our Father, then the Earth is our mother, she will nurture and take care of us as long as we are here. That is what she was created for!
We have enough troubles to worry about today, why stress out over what may or may not happen hundreds, thousands, or millions of years from now?
Barbara - March 6, 2008 at 11:01 pm