Focus the Nation

To learn more about Global Warming, I went to see An Inconvenient Truth. I learned that:

• Carbon dioxide amoutns increase in the winter when the trees have dropped their leaves, and increasing in the spring when the trees grow new leaves that breathe in the carbon dioxide.
• The temperature of the earth appears to be proportional to the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
• Apparently, Global Warming is definitely being caused by humas. This is not a theory, it is fact. No one in the scientific community disagrees with this. At least, that's what we're going to tell people so that they will agree with us.

Contrary to Al Gore's statement, there are scientists who disagree with the theory that humans are causeing Global Warming. Some sources that present the other side to the Global Warming dispute are:

• http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/162241/17_200_Scientists_Dispute_Global_Warming
• http://www.cei.org/gencon/003,02502.cfm
• http://www.ncpa.org/hotlines/global/pd112700c.html

As a teacher, I do not want to tell my students what they should believe, but rather, I want to teach them how to look at many different sources, many different opinions, and to decide what they believe for themselves. If I were to address Global Warming in my class, I would have each student do his own research and come to his own conclusion. Then, each student could write a letter to the editor of a local or national newspaper, or to write a letter to the State Representative or Congressman explaining his opinion, and some solutions if he believes they are necessary. This way, my students coulud make their own decisions instead of merely parroting opinions they hear from teachers, parents, and the media.