May. With spring break finally around the corner, the weather has led me to feel decidedly restless. Approached by more than one person shrugging their shoulders wondering about global warming, I ve even heard one of my roommates praising the effects, though she could have been sarcastic.
Carbon dioxide becomes airborne when fossil fuels, solid waste and wood products are burned.
Methane emissions are a result from, crazily enough, cows through their flatulence and belching in addition to the production and transport of coal, natural gas and oil. Finally, the last gas responsible for warmer global temps is nitrous oxide released during and through industrial and agricultural practices. I, like everyone else I ve seen on campus this week, have been basking in the sun, absorbing its warmth, laughing at our snow bank-less campus and our sheer luck. I myself, attempting to be the eternal optimist, like to entertain the theory that the government is twisting public perceptions so maybe after all global warming really doesn t exist. Selectively blind and sometimes deaf, alas I am not ignorant.