Summer Quatrini, 6 of Winter Park beats the heat wave of 90 plus degrees by cooling herself off with a bucket of water over her head in Shady Park. (Red Huber/ Orlando Sentinel) (Red Huber, Orlando Sentinel / Jul 06, 2012)
Some scientists and pundits have cited recent record heat and violent storms as supporting or even confirming the theory that the Earth's temperature is rising. The atmospheric level of heat-trapping carbon dioxide, produced by burning fossil fuels, has increased by more than a third since 1880, and most of the increase has occurred since 1960. But skeptics say that it doesn't make sense to focus on an episode of hot or stormy weather to prove global warming, just as it wouldn't be valid to point to a cold front as disproving global warming. Which side has the more convincing argument? Is global warming a hoax? Or are special interests with a vested interest in the energy status quo, like oil companies and the politicians in their pocket, trying to hide the truth from the world? Talk about it!
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