by Rachel Grusin

Created on: September 20, 2009   Last Updated: September 21, 2009

During the course of probably the last fifteen years or so there has been an ongoing debate as to whether or not man and its habits are causing global warming. On one side you have those who are staunch, rigid believers that humans are destroying the environment with our cars and our air conditioners.

But then you have those who will with everything they have deny or even give any shred of consideration to the possibility of human responsibility in the way the Earth is responding to our habitation. The argument in itself is quite pointless because we literally have the black and white facts from plenty of documented research recording the temperature of the planet over time.

The data shows undoubtedly the fluctuation in temperature, it becomes warmer over time and cools over time, there are times where it is very cold and then very hot. But what everyone seems to missing here is that it doesn't take thousands of statistics and graphs to point out the big pink elephant in the room that no one seems to notice. The key words here are over time. There is a very simple pattern here that demonstrates itself for us beautifully on all our scientific charts that shows us that over millions of years the climate changes.

There are entire eco systems that have shifted and changed and ended up on complete opposite sides of the globe and acclimated to their new environment, but they did so over very long periods of time. The reality is that humans are not the cause of global warming, no more than we are the cause of the past ice ages.

Global warming is natural, it is essential, but it is sensitive and until the past one hundred years has been very carefully balanced without any outside, or should I say inside interference. Only until the massively popular Industrial Revolution and the use of coal as fuel has the planet been even remotely affected, as far as global warming is concerned, in any way. To exacerbate matters the use of crude oil and various machinery including cars, factories and any other type of pollution excreting mechanism has only accelerated the process of global warming beyond the Earth's capacity to control.

So the answer to this question, Did man cause global warming? is no we did not. The question should be, "Are we causing global warming to happen faster than it should"? Yes, we are, and what are we going to do about it?

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