Predicting Weather By The Moon - Xavier University Libraries

What Causes Weather
SCIENTISTS SOMETIMES WRONG
In March 1998, scientists declared that a 2km-wide
asteroid called 1997 XF11 was on a near-collision course
with Earth. Understandably, this provoked international
concern. It was later discovered that the asteroid would
miss the Earth by at least a million kilometres.
Ministers from Antarctic Treaty nations were told by
New Zealand scientists that global warming could melt icecaps
and raise sea levels by as much as 6 metres (18 feet)in
the next generation, which, if true, would wash away thousands
of coastal villages around the world. This was reported
around the world by Reuters. But other scientists
suggest that a modest warming of the Earth would lower
sea levels, by increasing evaporation from oceans with subsequent
deposition and accumulation of snow on the polar
icecaps.
GLOBAL WARMING?
The public has been drip-fed the idea that human-induced
global warming is both real and dangerous. Every
weather extreme has been linked to it, or to El Nino and La
Nina. Because we hear these buzzwords repeated so often,
a subliminal message is delivered of parched farmland +
global warming, suffering farmers + global warming, unchecked
economic growth + global warming and the list
seems endless. A similar process occurs with cancer.
Health researchers link cancer to anything and everything.
Why? To qualify for taxpayer-funded governmental grants
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