My Take on Global Warming

By Paul Pakusch

My feeling about global warming is that humans have been on earth for such a short amount of time that we do not have enough data recorded to really recognize a trend. One thing I am not going to do is listen to what politicians have to say about it. That makes the whole thing political. If politicians would just shut up about it, that would certainly reduce the amount of hot air in the atmosphere, haha

What matters is what scientists have to say about it; but again it's such a such a short period of recorded history that we do not have enough data to really put together a trend for global warming as affected by human activities. We do know that there are cycles of warming and cooling trends in the lifespan of planet Earth. That happens regardless of the effect by humans. I remember back in the 1970s people thought the earth was cooling. But yet now they say it is warming. So there has been a contradiction. Also, whatever happened to the big concern over the big hole in the ozone layer?

I think it's impossible to get a true picture of whether humans are in fact causing global warming. I feel that as humans the best thing we can do is just keep the environment as clean as possible for our own health benefits. Whether we affect global warming or not, it's to our benefit to keep fuel emissions down, for example. If nothing else, it keeps the air clean.