The Politics of Global Warming

Global warming is on everyone’s mind – and tongue – these days. One of the many factors that brought it to the forecourt of everyone’s attention is none other than the film An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore’s monumental documentary on the advent and effects of global warming, as well as the politics behind it. The documentary has created enough controversy to divide the world between those who believe that global warming is a real threat to the existence of life on our planet and those who think that it is just an exaggeration designed to strike fear and paranoia.

To think that global warming is just a hyperbolic claim made to confuse and scare the populace is frankly preposterous. The signs are everywhere. The seas are getting warmer, enough to cause the glaciers in the Polar Regions to melt. The sea levels in coastal areas are rising slowly but surely. The Arctic polar bears are in danger of extinction because it is becoming increasingly harder for them to hunt for food on the melting glaciers. All these point to one cause – global warming – and these are just some of the signs and harbingers of the coming danger that global warming poses.

But what are our leaders doing about it? Are they really doing anything concrete to bring down the levels of carbon emissions going into the atmosphere, the biggest factor that is triggering global warming?

In other countries, there are conscious steps being taken to lessen carbon emissions into the atmosphere and to use alternative fuels that are much cleaner than traditional fossil fuels that cause carbon emissions. In the United States, there are steps and actions being taken as well. However, it cannot be said that the commitment of the United States to decreasing levels of carbon emissions in the atmosphere is not as solid as anyone would hope it to be.

It is a sad fact, actually. The United States is a major world power, and if anything, it should lead the world towards the initiative of addressing global warming. The fact that it is the only industrialized country that has not signed the Kyoto Protocol is highly indicative, however, that it has no intention of doing so. What is frightening about it is that the United States is one of the biggest producers of carbon emissions among industrialized countries in the world.

If anyone asks why the United States is not taking the reins in the matter of global warming, the only answer that could be given is politics. Big oil companies pour in a lot of money into the government, and so it is hard to ignore their voices when it comes to enacting policies regarding global warming, carbon emissions and alternative fuels.

If we want to do something to address global warming, we have to take it upon ourselves to find alternative fuels to run our cars on. It is the least we can do. One alternative fuel that we can tap is water. There are ways by which you can make your car run on water.

In this blog you will find the answers you need to reduce carbon emissions and help with the issue of global warming.