opinion essay

On this essay I will be sharing my personal opinion about the global warming, is it the greatest issue nowadays? is it caused by human action, or is it just a normal earth cycle? if it is caused by humans, how can we stop it? if it isn't, does it mean it is good for earth? All of these questions and more will be answered in my own point of view, and based on different researche I did weeks ago.

Many different webpages and scientists differ when it gets to decide if it is caused or not by human beings, but one thing appears to be certain, it is the most serious issue humanity is facing these days, threatening environments, melting ice capes and rising sea temperature and height, it is also the biggest killer of endangered species due to the destruction of their habitats, such as several species of polar bears, penguins and cold water dolphins. So to the first question, the answer is yes, global warming is the biggest environmental issue today.

A big question in the mind of a good number of people is if global warming is actually caused by humans, because since Dr. Patrick Moore, co-founder of greenpeace said there was nothing to worry about, everyone believed to him. The doctor said that when life originated, the amount of CO2 was about a hundred times larger, yet, didn't mentioned anything about the amounts of oxygen, due it is the unbalance between these two gases that creates the greenhouse effect, didn't talked either of quantities of methane gas present in the current atmosphere, the truth is, over my own point of view, a fault of the human being, not only for our industries, but for our own lifestyle, or can any of us imagine a world without cars, air conditioners, fridges, or even meat? Considering livestock is the biggest producers of methane gas, liberated by bacteria in their stomachs while digesting grass or leaves.

No matter how big our efforts are while trying to blame something else, we have the heaviest responsibility when  it comes to global warming.

There is also the belief in some people, and even in several serious scientists, that globlal warming is caused by the sun storms, this is completely irrational, because the solar activity and the global warming have been going in opposite directions since the last 30 years, another common-said is that global warming is actually good, making death of crops by frostbytes each time more rare, and welcoming longer seasons of summer and spring, witch would allow to produce more than one generation at once, this, is also just a big fallacy, the worst cure against hunger is heat, I believe I don't have to explain the consequences of the drought.

So, on and on examples add, because antartica is not gaining ice, the temperature is not cooling, animals and plants cannot adapt to these conditions changing so fast and it has only been rising temperature since 1998, and as long as this myths continue to un-inform us we will only continue to destroy our planet, unless we start doing all of those silly things we are always told to do to help the environment but we never do, such as, not having too many electronic devices plugged, do not use too much water, to use our cars as little as posible, and not to use "sprays" of any kind, such as deodorants, humidifiers or so many others, as they damage the ozone layer

Well, I do believe that that's enough to state a clear opinion, so, I do believe that global warming is the most serious environmental issue of our time, but I also still have faith that we can turn this to the other way if we could just seriously commit to it.

Atte. Gaspar