Opinion

Wednesday, Nov 18 2009 01:38 PM

Global warming exists

Why people resist a unified effort to combat global warming by changing the way we conduct our daily business is a mystery to me. Innovations to combat warming and the greenhouse gases that cause it are part of the business model of the future, which is an economic positive.

If one doesn't believe how carbon dioxide affects climate, try taking a look at the surface temperature of the planet Venus, which has a carbon dioxide blanket that could predict what eventually happens here on earth.

Today many if not most of the naysayers of yesterday now buy into the concept of man-made global warming. It's not a conspiracy and it's not some scientist's wild imagination. It's part of the scientific method. If one can predict something and demonstrate the way that something will occur and then duplicate it, one can reasonably assume there is something to it.

ROBERT SCHMITT

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