GLOBAL WARMING: “The Day After Tomorrow”…Fact or Fantasy?

GLOBAL WARMING: “The Day After Tomorrow”…Fact or Fantasy?

By Connie Corcoran Wilson, M.S., Editor

A
student of mine from South Korea, Sang Jun Baek, who is currently
studying to become a  chiropractor at Palmer Chiropractic College
in Davenport, recently wrote a paper on global warming for my class in
“Communication Skills” at Eastern Iowa Community College. Sang Jun is
already a graduate (in sports medicine) of South Korea's most
prestigious university. Sang Jun's paper contained many graphs and
charts illustrating the points he makes here so effectively, but it was
necessary for him to download the information for this paper from the
Internet in his native tongue, Korean, as (he said) it was not
available to him in English. He then translated the paper into English
for our class. When Sang Jun Baek wrote this paper, he had been in our
country only four months.


In
light of the current Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhall vehicle “The Day
After Tomorrow,” I am reproducing Sang Jun Baek's paper with his
permission and I wish to give full credit for its excellent
content to Sang Jun Baek's voluntary investigative efforts.



“The
Greenhouse Effect”:  The greenhouse effect is a necessary
phenomenon that keeps all Earth's heat from escaping to the outer
atmosphere.  Without the natural greenhouse effect, it is certain
that we would all be lost.  Temperatures on Earth would be much
lower than they are now, and the existence of life on this planet would
not be possible.  The global average temperature would drop
precipitously by 33 degrees from its current 15 degrees to minus 18
degrees Celsius.  The Earth would become a planet of ice.


However,
too many greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere could increase the
greenhouse effect.  This could result in an increase in mean
global temperatures as well as changes in precipitation patterns.


[To read the full text of the report, go here.]

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