Using the Net
For those who may have been exploring their Consciousness in a cave in the Andes, or perhaps have 5 children under five years old to look after, and thus may not know, for some time now there has been a controversy raging over whether or not Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) is occurring.
This graph is the major source of the problem
Keep in mind, in this argument, nobody is suggesting we haven’t had recent warm weather, nor even that the Earth isn’t getting warmer. Indeed, standard Science has said all along that, since an event called The Little Ice Age about four hundred years ago, the Earth has been on a steady warming trend.
Global Warming has potential to alter how we live. It’s even possible it may make the world a better place – we could lose some coastline but gain back desert areas. Nobody is really sure yet.
To make sense of things, we can use our computers.
In the past, anyone hearing about a Science controversy would need to be attending a University or a subscriber to peer-reviewed journals such as Science, Nature, or Scientific American to get a clue there was anything happening other than whatever brief and distorted view reached the mainstream media.
Now anyone with a computer and an internet connection can access more information than they have time to read on almost any subject. Of course you need to be careful which data you look at – nobody peer reviews what is posted on the net and there are, to put it bluntly, some total whackos out there.
So if the media tells you something in which you may have an interest, the first thing you should do, before forming an opinion even, is go to the internet and see what may be behind the ‘news.’
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