Evidence for Global Warming by Larry Vardiman, Ph.D. * The
global warming issue will not go away. Evidence continues to
mount that some type of warming is occurring, maybe temporarily
or of longer duration. But, is it caused by man and can anything
be done about it? Environmental activism to reduce carbon
dioxide emissions has reached a new intensity. The U.S. Supreme
Court is being asked to rule on a suit which demands that the
Environmental Protection Agency regulate the release of carbon
dioxide as part of its air pollution responsibility. The
president is being heavily lobbied to subscribe to the Kyoto
Protocol which would require the U.S. to emit less carbon
dioxide than it released in 1990. A book and a movie with the
titles, An Inconvenient Truth, which press the case for global
warming were released during 2006 by Al Gore, former vice
president of the United States.1,2 He makes the case that man's
actions in burning fossil fuels are projected to increase the
concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmo