Climate Change Week 7

I would say climate change is definitely a combination of both manmade and natural causes.  This is really not a good thing for me to be blogging about because I really know very little information about it.  I would say Al Gore is definitely a very UNreputable source for climate change information.  I would be very hard pressed to actually believe anything the man says, so when he makes a movie about climate change, I'm not sure how accurate it could be.  I also don't know how accurate a book that Professor Durham's friend wrote that was actually funded by Exxon Mobile. Obviously the gas companies are not going to fund anything that doesn't make them sound good or make them sound like they are not a contributing factor at all.  
I think it is nearly impossible to find a reputable source on this topic.  Everyone is bound to have his or her own opinion.  There are certain hard cold FACTS to take into consideration, but past that, everyone sort of forms an opinion of their own.  The best thing we could do is to take all the facts and review different sides of the spectrum to formulate our own individual opinions.  
I would say that the media portrays climate change as a much more manmade phenomena than anything else.  In more recent years there has been a huge push to break away from our dependency on fossil fuels.  This is for many reasons, but a huge one being its negative environmental impacts.  Another huge cause of global warming is carbon emissions.  After hearing what my carbon footprint was, I was a little shocked.  However, I am not going to stop eating meat products or seeing my boyfriend who is in the military and requires either a 10 hour car ride or a plane flight to see.  I don't think anything I do is really that bad, however it would be nice if there were alternative solutions to some of these issues.  If we could develop an effective way to use ethanol and biofuels for transportation, we could cut back on CO2 emissions greatly.  
I am hoping as time and technology progress, we can figure out safer and more environmentally friendly alternatives to our current practices.  Hopefully future generations will be spared of any further climate change.