View of Global Warming from a Non-Scientist

After reading an article on MSNBC (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17997788/site/newsweek/) and another article from a nonscientist (http://www.savaspublishing.com/02-25-07.html), I have varied opinions on global warming. I agree that global warming is something that should be studied and monitored, however it should not be taken out of its content. Ecologists are using global warming as a way to get people in tuned to the impact of their lifestyle choices. I do not fully believe that I personally have an impact on global warming, but I am willing to change certain lifestyles that are believed to be harmful to the environment. It is my duty as a human being to respect the Earth that I live on for future generations. In order to understand the full effects of global warming, researchers and scientists will have to use substantial data, other than weather patterns, to prove the soon coming effects to our environment. I learned something interesting about CFC's and the environment. For a while, scientists posed a threat of CFC's affecting the increasing risk of global warming. The argument was that CFC's rise into the atmosphere and assist in the greenhouse effect. This is striking to me because the density of CFC's is so great that it is almost impossible for them to affect the atmosphere. Upon further investigation, scientists had to rethink their argument and gather further data on CFC's. I think that this needs to be done with global warming. In the meantime, it does not hurt to alter one's lifestyle for the better of the environment!