When a scientist is convinced by his own verifiable
scientific data that global warming is real, will this finally mobilize the
global community in formulating solutions?
By: Ringo Bones
The conservative Evangelical community in America – who has
the significant political clout to make the US government somewhat reluctant to
join the global community to formulate solutions to move away from coal and
crude oil energy use – has always viewed for over a generation now that global
warming and greenhouse gasses generated by fossil fuel burning industrial
activity does not have a scientifically verifiable connection. With faulty
scientific research largely funded by Washington D.C. based focus groups and
lobbyists beholden to Big Oil and Dirty Coal based corporations, the
conservative Americans even resorted to manipulating organized Christian dogma
to discredit any scientific research and anyone pointing to the connection
between carbon dioxide rise in our atmosphere and global warming during the
Dubya Bush administration. Fortunately for us who believes in reasoned argument
over demagoguery, even tenured research scientists beholden to Big Oil and
Dirty Coal corporations had finally seen the light.
A physicist from the University of California in Berkeley
and author of Energy For Future Presidents by the name of Professor Richard
Muller had finally seen the “scientifically verifiable light” of his results
that global warming is caused by the industrialized world’s own greenhouse gas
producing industrial activity. Prof. Muller used to be a tenured climate
researcher of Charles Koch – a representative of the primarily conservative
mouthpiece who will readily use Holy Bible based organized Christian doctrine
demagoguery to achieve their own economic and political ends at the expense of
our own environmental well being. Prof. Muller recently had a change of heart
on his stance on global warming when his very own scientific results proved
beyond the shadow of a doubt that human industrial activity that produces
carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses is responsible for global warming.
As with what former US Vice President Al Gore experienced
during his An Inconvenient Truth documentary, Prof. Muller says that it was a
shock to me how the carbon dioxide levels rise curve exactly fit – as in
correlates – to the temperature rise exactly; As if all this warming over the
last 250 years has been caused by carbon dioxide generated by human industrial
activity. Muller also says that if current trends continue – as if we humans
won’t take steps to move away from dirty coal and crude oil burning industrial
activities – temperatures here on Earth will soon be higher than anything
experienced by homo sapiens throughout history. Even though Muller has hopes
that we can eventually transcend from the problems caused by global warming
citing that we humans are an infinitely adaptive species, he also says that
adaptation is disruptive and initially hurts – especially to the economically
disadvantaged who will, unfortunately be the ones to experience the worst
effects of coastal flooding due to sea level rise.
