Response to “Al Gore, Global Warming, Inconvenient Truth: Scientists Respond to Gore’s Warnings of Climate Catastrophe”

Reading this essay was very surprising for me since I do not think I have ever heard of anyone arguing for the other side of the global warming issue. When people talk about global warming, carbon dioxide levels, and human consumption, it is usually in a negative and often frightening way. Most “experts” insist that we are destroying the planet and if the world’s population does not urgently change its ways, we will undoubtedly find ourselves extinct. The author of this essay, however, claims that “…human emissions of carbon dioxide…” are not the cause of “…significant global climate change.” He asserts that there are “…hundreds of highly qualified non-governmental, non-industry, non-lobby group climate experts…” who believe that “there is no meaningful correlation between CO2 levels and Earth’s temperature over…time….” These opinions coming from such authoritative people had me very shocked. I never recognized that there could be evidence to support the opposite point of view on the topic, even though common sense should have told me otherwise. I still feel that the entire human populace needs to start treating its home (Earth) with more respect and concern, but now I am interested in finding out more about what this other group of experts has to say.

Response to "The Matter of Whiteness"

My honest and first response to this essay was that I should not even be reading it. First of all, the article was published more than ten years ago and most of the author’s claims are outdated and no longer apply. He is an English professor who predominantly comments on racial agendas in the United States. How can you accurately judge a society that you are not a part of? I also feel that the subject matter of this essay, the historical race issues that were such a large part of our country’s past, no longer apply. It is 2009 and we have a BLACK president. If you still think the “Western world” has race issues, then watch your evening news. Furthermore, the author claims that if you are Italian, or Catholic, or Jewish, then you are considered white in the United States. In my experience, this statement is absolutely false. If the author was to ask a white supremacist in the U.S. if these people are white, he would adamantly tell the author “NO!” To the whitest of the white in our country, if you are not an Anglo-Saxon Protestant, then you are just as racially inclined as any African, or Mexican, or Asian, etc. I am an Italian-American and have been called racial slurs, such as a “dago” or a “guinea”, by people who are white. I am sorry, but I cannot take seriously someone in Britain who is telling me that because I am Italian, my country considers me to be white, when actual people in my country tell me that I am not white for that same reason.