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Global Warming – Fact Or Fantasy?
Texas Allied Petroleum – Fact or Fantasy By Duane Flowers.

In this article I’d like to look at global warming and whether in reality it is fact or fiction or fact or fantasy, as indeed the case may be.

There have been a lot of reports in the newspaper over the last few years about global warming and frankly I just don’t see it. Looking around me for the last two years, we’ve had the shortest summers that we’ve had in a long time and while the winters may have little less snow than I remember as a kid they are far from anything resembling the doom and gloom being prophesied.

This year we barely had a summer August which is generally our hottest month surrounded by September and July being pretty hot themselves, this year it just didn’t happen. We had a couple weeks of what I’d call summer, reminiscent of the hot and humid summers of 10 years ago, but it basically it just wasn’t there and now it seems we skipped directly into winter.

Praying Mantis

The praying mantis here in Japan has always been a good indicator of what’s to come, at least as far as natural indicators go, in that they lay their eggs on the ground when they are expecting a mild winter and they lay their eggs high up in the trees when they’re expecting colder winters. The higher up they go the colder the winter they’re expecting and for the first time in many, many years the praying mantis has laid its eggs up high in the trees which means this winter is going to be a cold one.

So with the new influenza peaking right about now and winter right around the corner with the old influenza coming on its heels I think the especially cold winter that’s coming is one to be very careful about and it also tends to goes against all these warnings of doom and gloom and global warming, at least from the evidence I’ve seen so far.

Michael Crichton

The latest and unfortunately last Michael Crichton book called “State of Fear” talks about global warming from a very interesting aspect. In my opinion Michael Crichton was a genius, he really understood science and medicine and all the things he wrote about. He actually understood them more deeply than most of us. For those not familiar with the name right off the bat Michael Crichton wrote “Jurassic Park”, “Rising Sun”, “Timeline”, “Congo”, “Sphere” and a slew of other bestsellers that became blockbusters as well.

The thing with the movies is that a lot of the science was taken out, the research the technical details, etc. were all made into something that non-technical movie watchers would enjoy. But if you read the books you’ll find all that detail. In Jurassic Park you can learn all about DNA and details about how that kind of DNA cloning is theoretically quite possible.

But in his latest book, “State of Fear” he goes deeply into the research about global warming. He suggests that many of the facts that are out there about Global Warming are just wrong and are not at all based on the research. The doctors and/or scientists that are putting forward a lot of this research are basically quacks, which is basically what he is saying, and that many of them are the kind of researchers that will write whatever you want if they’re paid enough. Whether this is true or not I don’t know in that I haven’t read any of the research myself, but for someone like Michael Crichton to suggest it, it is definitely food for thought.

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Global Warming, I’m Causing It?

Texas Allied Petroleum Humans and Global Warming By Muhammad Haidir.

Most of us have heard about global warming and how it is slowly chewing away into the life of our beloved mother earth, about how it has caused several noticeable changes in the weather patterns due to climate change resulting from the emission of green house gases. It has raised some environmental issues as well, both directly and indirectly from the pollution of these green house gases, be it from the rising sea levels due to the increased in the earth’s surface temperature or the susceptibility of the our health factor due to the irregular heat and cold exposure.

Doing our part, is it enough?

Some of us are doing our part to help the environment through various means from recycling our recyclable products, changing our wasteful habits to installing solar panels and harnessing wind power as an alternative source of energy for our house. Some big corporation and major industries are doing their part as well by promoting and sponsoring awareness campaigns, making sure their waste discharge, by products and their gas emission abide and comply by the health regulatory boards. These discharges go through several processes to be classified as environmentally friendly before being discharge and released into the environment. Some of them have also implemented various tactics, methods and technology to reduce their energy and resources usage. From installing water saving devices to researching new technologies to reduce carbon emission, all these in an effort to reduce our carbon emission the release of more greenhouse gases in our atmosphere.

Renewable energies

Self sustaining and renewable energy sources holds great promises for a greener and cleaner future. Harnessing nature’s forces for our benefits such building dams, wind driven turbines and thermal generator to utilize geysers are just few of the examples. The latest technology introduce into the scene is the ability to be able to harness the energies of waves to generate electricity. Man kind are so desperately seeking alternatives for sources of renewable energy as each passing day we are pushing the supply limits of our natural gas and fossil fuels to the brink of extinction. The supply and demand balance will soon tip greatly as our supplies of energy continue to deplete and individual countries continues to increase their energy consumption.

Taking Turkey as a case study, Kaygusuz (2007) reported that the country have shown energy increased in energy consumption at an average of 4.3% annually since 1990. In comparison to its increased energy usage, its carbon dioxide emission has also whooped up to an alarming figure of 193 million tons in the year 2003. Multiply the figure with all the developed and developing countries and then we fast tracked it 10 years down the road. It is no longer a surprise that we our fossil fuels supplies will be facing depletion sooner then predicted by the experts.

We are to blame?

Are ‘we’ humans really to blame for the rise in the global temperature and the current condition of mother earth. We would question ourselves as we observe for the past few years as headlines in the news showcase stories of cities and countries being hit by early frost, late frost, sudden blitz, ice storms and hail storms. Notice are sometimes displayed and to alert people to prepare and brace themselves with the coming of snow storms, cyclones and many more of such similar examples. This can be used as environmental indicators and evidence as to how distorted our weather patterns have gone. At present carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide are the main Green house gases deemed to be the culprits behind global warming.

However there are several ideologies out there calcimining that this is part of a natural cycle. They explain that as we see the trend in the rise of the global temperature for the past few centuries and how they have declined in recent times. Maybe that explains the unexpected surges in late and early frost.

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Global Warming – What Can You Do About It?

Texas Allied Petroleum Concepts by Kelly Hunter.

Since over the last decade, we have been quite emphatically hearing about the concept of global warming. The issue has consumed humankind so much that international conferences have been held with several world leaders in attendance, big money movies have been made in Hollywood and Internet blogs and forums have gone on hyper-drive discussing the problem and its possible solutions. But, then, what is this problem exactly? And, where do we as an individual fit in? What can we do individually to solve the problem? Most importantly, can be problem be solved?

What Is Global Warming?

The term refers to a gradual but steady increasing of the temperature of the earth on a global note. The earth has been getting warmer ever since it was first formed, but in the last sixty years or so, the temperature of the atmosphere has also been increasing. It is predicted to reach precarious levels quite soon if not checked, and this is what leads to the warming effect.

The earth has a protective layer in its atmosphere, which is made up of the four main gases-carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor and ozone. This quartet helps in retaining a part of the heat that the earth receives from the sun on the earth itself. This effect is known as the greenhouse effect, a very important effect for the overall sustenance of life on the earth. However, in recent times, there has been a lot of mutilation of this protective cover in the atmosphere, due to which the amount of heat trapped on the earth is increasing drastically. This is what is contributing to the effect in a major way.

But, what is depleting this protective layer? There are many reasons. Increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere (due to cutting of trees, for instance) is one factor. At the same time, there is high proliferation of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in the atmosphere, which is leading to the depletion of the ozone layer. Then, there is also an increase of other harmful gases in the earth’s environment which were previously present in a low proportion. Sulfur dioxide that is released from industrial smoke is a good example.

However, there are various other causes of this effect as well. No one can pinpoint earth’s warming effect to just one factor. There’s also the fact that the solar radiation on the earth itself has been undergoing changes since a few decades now. Sun’s heat is becoming hotter, and that’s adding to the peril as well.

What Can I Do?

It is necessary for us to take individual steps to prevent this situation. If the earth were to continue warming at the rate it is doing right now, there’s the big danger that the polar caps will melt and the water will flood the earth. And this can happen pretty soon.

On an individual note, we can take care that we don’t contribute to the earth’s drastically changing atmospheric cover in any way. We need to keep our vehicles checked for CO2 emissions. We need to stop using products that release CFCs in our atmosphere. We need to go easy with factory effluents and smoke discharges. We need to control the rate of urbanization. We need to grow more trees.

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