Global Warning

Although Sowell’s article was interesting reading and had some good points in it, for me, it did not support its conclusion. That is that Washington wants to scare the population about Global Warming, so it can expand its power in answer to society’s demand to “fix” the problem.

First, let us examine his reasons. He uses the analogy of Paulov’s dog to suggest we have been conditioned to respond in a fearful way to the phrase Global Warming. It is true that we have heard this phrase from time to time but, 1) It does not seem to generate any more emotion than did the Global Cooling in the 1970’s, that Sowell make mention of in his essay, and 2) Sowell doesn’t support with evidence the government as the source for the repeated exposure of the Global Warming phrase to the public. In fact, Sowell's essay generally attributes the proponents of this phrase to scientists. Although scientist may be utilized by government to address various bio-phycho-social problems they are not necessarily the government per se. They can be independent researchers employed by special interest or private, for profit or non-profit, businesses.

Sowell also refers to computer models as being the tool

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Some common words found in the essay are:
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Approximate Word count = 1059
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)