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.