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Modeling global warming
All around the world, people are obsessed with global warming. Why? Because they can’t get in their head that our regular activities aren’t the cause of all this.
Studies from the 1990s United Nations report that we had 10 years until the damage would be irreversible on the world. Ten years later, nothing happened. Also, Vice President Al Gore made a movie called “Inconvenient Truth,” saying that we were destroying the polar bears. In 1950, there were 5,000 arctic polar bears. Today, the population is nearly 40,000. He also said that sea levels would rise flooding cities. In 2011, the ocean dropped 70mm.
In addition, there’s no empirical evidence proving that carbon dioxide contributes to climate change. In fact, weather forecasts are done using computer models that are never truly accurate. In the long term, they become almost unusable. Hurricane travel is actually predicted using these computer models. From Dorian, the computer model was three days off in its timing and a failure resulting in hundreds of miles in predicting its landfall.
It’s unreasonable and immoral to financially destroy the lives of millions of Americans based on computer models that can’t possibly be used.
Elise Jones
Spokane