Weather is a confusing and daunting thing. Over the millennia, the weather has shaped this planet to create oceans, clouds, and has contributed to the erosion of hillsides to create lakes and the strangely shaped mountains in the arid regions of the planet. The Earth experienced the Ice Age, and over time, the Earth continued to increase in temperature. The same phenomenon is occurring today, but it is often misconstrued with this concept of global warming, which is an unnatural heating of the Earth as a result of human activities that cause air pollution, thus destroying the o-zone layer of the atmosphere. Global warming is not caused by humans, but rather by the natural heating of the Earth. The Forbes article, Climate Change: ‘Hoax’ Or Crime Of The Century?, by Mark Hendrickson, typifies this end of the controversy. Hendrickson states that the data collected for the purposes of proving that man-made carbon emissions is not accurate because there are, “few long-term records from either the southern hemisphere or the 71 percent of the planet that is covered by water [and] distortions from the urban heat-island effect and other faulty siting[s]” (Hendrickson). He also asserts that the best measurements are collected by satellite, where no atmosphere increases the reading of the temperature. Hendrickson goes on to disprove the argument that CO2 emissions are not the main source of climate change, as stated by “climate change alarmists,” and that it is actually water vapor that contributes to much of this greenhouse effect. He cites information from the book, Climategate, by Brian Sussman, that human contribution to greenhouse gases is only .9%. It is true that air pollution is not good for the environment, but the claim that it is heating up the Earth is incorrect.

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http://www.forbes.com/sites/markhendrickson/2012/09/16/climate-change-hoax-or-crime-of-the-century/#60c3cacb1458