Global Warning essays

Global Warning essays GLOBAL WARMING IS A GRAB FOR POWER Although Sowells article was interesting reading and had some good points in it, for me, it did not support its conclusion. That is that Washington wants to scare the population about Global Warming, so it can expand its power in answer to societys demand to fix the problem. First, let us examine his reasons. He uses the analogy of Paulovs dog to suggest we have been conditioned to respond in a fearful way to the phrase Global Warming. It is true that we have heard this phrase from time to time but, 1) It does not seem to generate any more emotion than did the Global Cooling in the 1970s, that Sowell make mention of in his essay, and 2) Sowell doesnt support with evidence the government as the source for the repeated exposure of the Global Warming phrase to the public. In fact, Sowell's essay generally attributes the proponents of this phrase to scientists. Although scientist may be utilized by government to address various bio-phycho-social problems they are not necessarily the government per se. They can be independent researchers employed by special interest or private, for profit or non-profit, businesses. Sowell also refers to computer models as being the tool orchestrating the hysteria about Global Warming. Again, I ask what hysteria? Also the word orchestrating is very ambiguous. In this case, it most probably means conducting or leading, but computers are not objects you play like instruments, they are tools for compiling and communicating information. He even makes reference to garbage in, garbage out. However, the fallacy is assuming the information that is going in is put there by the government and that it is garbage. A just as reasonable assertion can be that the information used to create the computer models was done by objective researchers and that the information is v ...