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Melting Lies about Global Warming. Liz Coppella. Thesis. The media distorts information about global greenhouses. C limate scientists try to create panic by making faulty claims. Global warming alarmists use scare tactics and threats.
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Melting Lies about Global Warming Liz Coppella
Thesis • The media distorts information about global greenhouses. • Climate scientists try to create panic by making faulty claims. • Global warming alarmists use scare tactics and threats. • All is done in order to gain funding when there is no real threat.
1,500 year cycle • Theory that through at least the last one million years, a 15,00 warm-cold cycle has occurred. • During this time there are ice ages, and then interglacial periods where the glaciers melt. • We are in an interglacial period.
What is it? • A change in climate, which is directly or indirectly attributed to human activity that alters the compositions of the global atmosphere.
Court Cases: California vs. General Motors • GM’s cars emitted over 289 mill metric tons of CO2 causing Global warming. • Court ruled against the Global warming claim saying that there were too many other factors to consider. • Almost no coverage in the media.
Court Cases: Vermont vs. Bush Admin • President Bush did not want to take action when he was being pressured to do something about pollution and global warming. • Was told to “stop burying his head in the sand”. • He created the Global Warming Reduction Act. • Outcomes of this case were blasted all over the news and included the New York Times paper.
Counter Argument: Humans are Contributing. • Contribute by either the burning of fossil fuels. • To a lesser extent, clear cutting forests.
Humans burning fossil fuels • Today’s CO2 levels are 40% higher than the highest natural levels over the last 800,000 years. • With every gallon of gasoline burnt, 19lbs of Co2 is being put into the atmosphere.
Citations • Horner, C. C. (2008). Red hot lies: How global warming alarmists use threats, fraud, and deception to keep you misinformed. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Pub. • LaNore, S. (2011, June 09). Global warming. EHow. Retrieved February 27, 2014, from http://www.ehow.com/info_8567349_global-warming-thesis-statement-ideas.html • Mann, M. E. (2014, December 25). Global warming: Earth science. In Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved February 26, 2014, from http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/235402/global-warming • Motavalli, J. (2009, October 12). Update: Global Warming. Retrieved February 24, 20`14, from http://http://www.2facts.com/icof_story.aspx?PIN=i1200200&term=global+warming • Singer, S. F., & Avery, D. T. (2007). Unstoppable global warming: Every 1,500 years. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.