Re: Writing a paper on Global Warming
by Lamna nasus on 17 November 2003 @ 12:54 PM
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Hi Nikxi36,
I can recommend the following link for research on global warming -
http://www.whrc.org/globalwarming/warmingearth.htm
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Re: Writing a paper on Global Warming
by Anonymous on 17 November 2003 @ 07:38 PM
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see if you can't find a copy of lovelock's gaia theory. his anaylsis of dasiyworld illustrates exactly why global "warming" is such a hard issue to analyze.
http://www.gfdl.gov/~jps/GFDL_VG_Gallery.html#Warming, will give you some good graphics. one gives a graphic example of the problems of simulating these things.
http://www.gfdl.gov/~rt/glob_warm_hurr.html
or are you after something different?
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the anti-activist
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Re: Writing a paper on Global Warming
by Anonymous on 18 November 2003 @ 02:38 AM
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I think the first thing you have to do is to follow the advice of Roger Bacon (or was it Francis).
"If we begin with certainties, we will end in doubt. If we begin with doubts, we may end with certainties."
Realize that "global warming" is as much a political slogan as an engineering problem.
Read carefully more than just one point of view.
Consider that you may change your mind as you learn more about this subject. Don't paint yourself into a corner early on in your research.
Realize that another well know figure, this of the 20th century in Germany, advised young people to come early on to a Weltschauen (pardon if I don't have this word quite right). Then, as you come into the possession of new facts, organize these facts according to your Weltschauen.
I leave it to you to judge which approach, that of Roger Bacon or that of the ill fated German Chancellor, is more likely to yield a better result.
Tecumseh
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Re: Writing a paper on Global Warming
by Anonymous on 18 November 2003 @ 12:46 PM
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I agree with Tecumseh that "Global Warning" is simply a slogan, though searching and learning is always better than doing nothing. It would be hard - or even impossible - to write simply "a paper" about it. To understand what "Global Warning" really means, you have to search deeply into the problems of chemical pollution, politics, economy, weather changes, natural rhytmes and so on. Reading and learning first will help you find the subject you would like to write on.
Humbak
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Re: Writing a paper on Global Warming
by PaulCrouser on 18 November 2003 @ 08:23 PM
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Hi Nikxi36,
Someone has already gone to great lengths to collect the opinions, experiences and knowledge of hundreds of leaders/scientists/journalists the world over regarding global warming.
And this source, a compilation of quotations about the subject, has the added advantage of providing just as many points of contact for further reading!
Check it out:
http://www.stthomas.edu/recycle/warm.htm
peace,
Paul
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Re: Writing a paper on Global Warming
by PaulCrouser on 18 November 2003 @ 09:59 PM
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Hi again Nikxi36!
While you research your paper, do not lose sight of the immense power of corporations to influence how the public views issues such as global warming. With hundreds of billions of dollars at stake, dirty extractive industries will stop at nothing to influence public opinion and lobby Congress to see things their way.
Indeed, leaders of these industries have pooled literally hundreds of millions of dollars each year to institutionalize this effort, founding ultra-conservative “Think Tanks” (which I more properly refer to as “Septic Tanks”) such as Cato Institute (a rabidly anti-enviro institution), American Enterprise Institute, and Heritage Foundation (by far the largest – now literally running the country by writing the laws that Republicans mindlessly pass as legislation).
To give you an example of how it all works, during the recent debate about raising CAFE standards for auto emissions, the Heritage Foundation hit upon the argument that “fuel efficient cars kill people”. The next thing you know, there is Trent Lott standing before congress with a plastic child’s self-propelled play car saying “this is what the environmentalists want you to drive”.
An excellent article on how the press is being manipulated was printed last year in Sierra Magazine, the magazine of the Sierra Club. Check it out:
http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/200207/thinktank.asp
Hope this helps put things in better perspective regarding what is really going on behind the scenes with any environmental issue today.
peace,
Paul
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