The Greenhouse Effect/Global Warming

"The earth is becoming a greenhouse!" "The world is ending!" "Stop the production of CFC’s! They are feeding the hole in the earth’s ozone layer!" These tend to be comments voiced by the media about global warming and the ozone layer; two of their favorite subjects to discuss and frighten people with. My beliefs? There is no such thing as global warming and the greenhouse effect and the hole in the ozone layer is simply no threat to us whatsoever. But I’d better slow down and tackle one thing at a time :)

First of all I’ll discuss global warming. What is this you may ask and why is it known as the greenhouse effect? First of all the earth is kept warm by greenhouse gases which are trapped in the earth’s atmosphere thus warming it up (carbon dioxide is one of these gases.) Greenhouse gases are very handy (unless you want to freeze to death) but environmentalists are afraid that too many of them are being released into the air by factories and things like that. They compare different years and claim that the earth’s temperatures are getting higher and higher as the years go by because of an over excess of greenhouse gases. Many people are afraid that eventually the earth will have so many trapped gases that it will become a "greenhouse" and everyone will be suffocated to death. Sounds harsh doesn’t it? Before you start running down your street screaming in panic take a deep breath and listen up. The media is just trying to scare you. Do they actually look at the facts? NO. First of all it’s perfectly natural for the earth to go through stages where it starts warming up. It will eventually start cooling off, however, and no one on earth is suffocated as a result of the heat spell. Also real scientists have compared the different temperature’s of the earth over a period of time and the supposed rise in temperatures is almost too insignificant to be mentioned.

Where I got all this information? Dr. Jay Wile’s Exploring Creation with Physical Science which is a great book I highly suggest you read. It has lots of great information in it and is an all around great science course from a Christian perspective.

So if you’re still determined to run outside your house screaming at the top of your lungs in terror, go ahead but know that there’s really nothing to worry about. I still haven’t tackled the whole "hole in the ozone layer" subject yet, but that’s for another blog.