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The Numbers Don’t Lie-Global Warming is Here
“I would like to say we're at a point where global warming is impossible to deny. Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers, though one denies the past and the other denies the present and future.” –Ellen Goodman, The Boston Globe.
As Ellen Goodman so eloquently states, global warming is not just a hypothesis anymore; it is an inconvenient truth. In recent years, more and more data has been collected and shared with the public about the dangerous effects global warming will have on future generations. One of the more convincing arguments for global warming is Al Gore’s documentary An Inconvenient Truth. In this film he states that if we don’t begin to make some changes in our day to day lives, our earth will not be the majestic place we see it today and our children are the ones that will be asking us why. To validate his argument that global warming is changing the world, Gore focuses on some key issues such as rising CO2 levels that are increasing the world’s temperature, the melting of Greenland, Antarctica, and the Arctic, and the numerous species of animals that are in danger of extinction. However, due to Gore’s previous political involvement, many skeptics and critics have voiced their opinion that An Inconvenient Truth is nothing more then[CS1] Gore’s attempt to test the waters for future elections to come. They also criticize Gore’s data and continually console the public by saying that global warming is not as big of an issue as Gore makes it seem. However, I believe that Gore’s documentary is very[CS2] informative and accurate and that we must listen to his message to save our planet.
One of the beginning points that Gore makes in his documentary is that CO2 levels are rising drastically and the earth’s temperature will begin to rise as well because CO2 emissions and the temperature seem to fluctuate together. Gore even[CS3] shows a graph of this...