The Price Keeps Climbing...

Every day now either on TV broadcasts, in print media or on the Internet some mention is made about our reliance on fossil fuels for our energy needs. What are they? How were they made? How did they get where they are today?

They are, of course, crude oil, coal, and natural gas.

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A large majority of the world’s most renowned climatologists say global warming is real, caused mainly by increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The dramatic increase, they say, is primarily due to man’s increased burning of fossil fuels. Some of their opponents cite research they claim prove any Earth warming is due to increased sun activity, and natural changes in carbon dioxide concentrations has very little to do with it. Some even go so far as to accuse the climatologists of perpetrating a vast hoax on the world even though they offer no credible evidence why such a large group of esteemed scientists would do so.

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We don’t usually think of global warming or death as good things but both are essential for the continuity of life. Without death new life could not be born. Why? All chemical elements are made in stars. They are made only in stars. All the chemical elements on Earth and in its atmosphere came from a very large star that exploded around the time our sun formed 5 billion years ago, producing the chemical debris that eventually formed Earth and the other planets in our solar system.

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Whether we want to admit or not, I believe most people know that global warming is real and accelerating due mainly to our activities. The questions our generation has to answer are:

• Will we face up to it?
• Will we try to reverse it?

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