GLOBAL WARMING

Scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have
discovered a key element of the climate science behind global warming… water vapor.
Water vapor has long played a part in the formula for climate modeling. In fact water
vapor is considered to be one of the most prevalent greenhouse effect creating
emissions. The difference provided by this report is the importance of where water
vapor was and is located. Previous climate modeling measured and accounted for the
water vapor that appeared near the Earth’s surface, the water vapor discovered by
the NOAA is at the outer edge of the atmosphere in the stratosphere.

The report states that water vapor in the stratosphere has decreased by nearly 10%
since the year 2000. This may explain why the rate of global warming attributed to
water vapor started to decrease during that same time. The NOAA scientists are not
sure what the precise variables are that create changes in the amount of water vapor
present in the stratosphere, however this is a key find that could help climate
scientists with future climate modeling and predictions as well as understanding the
affects of water vapor and other, directly introduced to the upper atmosphere,
variables on global warming and cooling.

While some would call global warming a theory, others would call it a proven set of
facts. Opinions differ vehemently. Let us consider global warming to be both a premise
that the environment of the world as we know it is slowly, but very surely increasing in
overall air and water temperature, and a promise that if whatever is causing this trend
is not interrupted or challenged life on earth will dynamically be affected.

The prevailing counter opinion is that all that is presently perceived to be global
warming is simply the result of a normal climactic swing in the direction of increased
temperature. Most proponents of this global warming ideology have definitive social and
financial interests in these claims.

Global warming is real. It is not the result of a natural climatic adjustment. It is a

quantifiable set of environmental results that are in addition to any normal changes in
climate. That is why the effects of global warming have catastrophic potential. Global
warming is the straw that breaks the camel’s back. It is the difference between a
category three hurricane and a category four. Global warming is an imbalance of
nature.

The premise of global warming is that industrial growth coupled with non-structured
methods we as humans use to sustain ourselves has created a situation where our
planet is getting hotter by the minute. We have seemingly negatively effected our
environment by a cycle of harmful processes that now seem to be feeding upon
themselves to exponentially increase the damage to our ecosystem.

ANGELIE C. BAQUIRAN
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