Teller Warns The Oil Industry Of Global Warming, By Benjamin Franta

In the 2018 article, “On its 100th birthday in 1959, Edward Teller warned the oil industry about global warming” by Benjamin Franta, a man named Robert Dunlop was introduced. Dunlop was the president of the Sun Oil Company, he was the face of every oil industry, and he did his job well (Franta). He was warned by a man called Edward Teller that if he did not change his industry and its ways, then the world will suffer greatly for it. Teller tried to warn the population by talking at the Energy and Man symposium, along with four other speakers, who may or may not have agreed with his ideas (Franta). Teller had an agenda to inform the people of the energy patterns of the future (Franta). During his speech, he informed the population that not
One being that America knew about this information for more than 50 years before it was presented to the public as factual. Because of them waiting, our planet suffered severely for our actions; actions that are not irreversible. Another concept that I took away from this article is just how serious global warming is. Global warming is real, and it is already happening, rapidly, to our environment. Global warming can and will cause the ice caps to melt, overflowing the Earth and our cities with water. In the article, it mentions that an icecap can easily be 5000 feet thick, and these humungous objects are melting thanks to us not taking care of our Earth like we should (Franta). One way to connect this article back to what I have learned in class is by mentioning the greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect is where the sun radiates down on Earth’s surface, which is absorbed by the surface and is turned into heat. That radiation then radiates back out towards our outer atmosphere and is then absorbed by the gases in our ozone layer. This is the natural greenhouse effect, but the world has created something called enhanced greenhouse effect. Enhanced green house effect is where we have emitted so many gases into the atmosphere that the radiation has a hard time leaving our atmosphere and is trapped, therefore warming our atmosphere more than it should naturally. Another topic that was mentioned in class that can be connected back to the article is the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Convention on Climate Change. The Kyoto Protocol was established in 1997 by the United Nations and it influenced other countries to cut their greenhouse gases. The Paris Convention on Climate Change was established in 2016 and it put a lot of responsibility on wealthy countries. It challenged countries to also cut their greenhouse gases. 197 countries got involved in this agreement, but on 174 of those countries actually