Global Warming
Long ago the earth was conceived in a fiery blast of volcanoes and molten lava. The earth
cooled and life was spawned. From the first bacterium that swam in a new ocean thru just
before the industrial revolution climate, lacking any external factors, has steadily changed.
But since the industrialization of civilization, the climate of the earth has faced an ever
growing foreign factor. This factor is the emissions of the so called greenhouse gases that
have caused the rapid increase in world temperatures. This phenomena has been given the
title global warming, and has sparked a new debate in local, state, national, and world
policy.
Since the end of WWII the United States has played the role of international policeman. As
one of the strongest economic, political, and economic powers in the world the United
Nations Special committee on Global warming research has also made us the leading
emissions releaser in the world, with approximately one fifth of all global emissions
coming from our country. As of March 13, 2001 President Bush has refused to honor the
Kyoto Protocol which promised to reduce emissions by 5% in ten years. He labeled the
agreement to be overly ambiguous and not not plausible because it would cause, serious
harm to the US economy, the incomplete state of scientific knowledge on global warning
and the lack of commercially available technologies as his biased reasoning for rejecting
the Kyoto Protocol. On all Accounts President bush is wrong.
To begin with there is no serious harm to our economy. The heavy majority of Americas
