Global warming and climate change in general is one of those subjects that I hold very close to my heart; not because I go around in my spare time hugging trees and gathering vegans in Toyota Priuses to form a peaceful protest against big oil, but because climate change is a subject that everyone and their mom likes to chime in on without really knowing that much about. If you even mention that term “global warming” in a group of people, even the person who you wouldn’t believe can even form a sentence has an opinion. People must feel like it makes them better than others because they can regurgitate whatever CNN and Fox tells them. I’ve done about two or three papers on climate change and global warming in my highschool career, and even though I was lucky enough to get to not talk about the subject since my freshman year, I guess this is the direction I chose to take for myself. Hopefully by the end of this I’ll convince you that there’s no reason to ever bring it up again and we’ll put the issue aside and worry about the real problems like getting the homeless jobs or deciding if we should just pass Marijuana and tax it until our economy stimulates. Before I truly get started, I want to say that I’m not going to take the “global warming is a lie” stance. A harsh disbelief in something there is no true evidence about is just as daft as saying that it exists without any precedence. Okay, so for whatever reason, global warming is seen as a huge threat to our lives and Al Gore has pretty much led all of his sheep into believing that eventually mother nature is going to exact her revenge on us in the form of storms and earthquakes. Before we get into what would happen if it were true, let’s talk about what would be the cause of a g... ... middle of paper ... .... 06 May 2014. . Spencer, Roy, PhD RSS. "Books." Roy Spencer PhD RSS. Roy Spencer PhD RSS, 2014. Web. 15 April 2014. . Lupo, Anthony. Global Warming Is Natural, Not Man-Mad. Thesis. NAPSA, 2013. N.p.: Napsnet, 2013. Web. 15 Apr. 2014. . Kenny, Jack. "No Proof of Man-Made Climate Change." The New American. The New American, 27 Feb. 2014. Web. 15 Apr. 2014. . USGS. "Volcanic Gases and Climate Change Overview." Volcanic Gases and Climate Change Overview. USGS, 2014. Web. 15 Apr. 2014. .
In our modern, technological world, the standard of living has far surpassed anything our world has experienced in the past, and while the increase in this characteristic has led many countries to thrive in the 21th century, it has also created dramatic consequences for the world that have not been brought to light. One of the most prominent consequences of the transformation into the Modern Age is the presence of global warming, the rise in average temperatures throughout the year for the entire globe. But, you may ask, isn’t global warming something that the world has known about for a long time? What do you mean when you say it hasn’t been brought to light? The overarching theme of global warming consists of many different factors that ultimately lead to the heating of the
Global warming is amongst the most frightening environmental issues the modern world faces; it’s adverse effects have become significantly more prevalent since the dawn of the 20th century taking the forms of powerful
The media-crazed threat of global warming has made this topic a very popular and, according to the media, a very serious global issue too. I’m not going to deny Global Warming, but I feel that as humans, we have only contributed very little to the emission of greenhouse gases, etc. Global Warming is a natural phenomenon, and should be dealt with accordingly: A coat when it’s cold, a t-shirt when it’s warm.
Climate Science as Culture War by Hoffman, A. (2012), discusses how the science on climate change has yet to lead to a social consensus. Whilst “the scientific evidence is overwhelming” (Stern, N. 2007) the epicenter of the debate remains between opposing worldviews; from “dooms-day preachers” (Chricton, M. 2006) to those who view climate change as a hoax. Climate change has become entrenched in an opinion war, reducing what is a complex scientific process to personal, political or religious convictions. Whilst both social and scientific issues need to be considered, it is paramount that the separation of climate change from opinion is made clear. This commentary accepts anthropogenic climate change as fact and explores why it is now steeped in “values, morals and ethics,” (Hoffman, A. 2012).
Ever since the advent of weather observation and prediction technology in the past 150 years, science has created a consensus that the earth is getting warmer, and that human influence is to blame. Some even blame this change, known as global warming, for bouts of extreme weather including cyclonic storms, droughts, wildfires, and heat waves. These scientists (and much of the public) believe that our influence is the problem, as our emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses, the product of the usage of our fuels, are polluting the atmosphere and trapping energy from the sun within. However, a minority group, scientists and public skeptics alike, believe this warming trend is merely a coincidence with the earth’s naturally cyclical climate, and that the activists are overstating something they know little about. Many even agree that if the prospect of our influence were to be true, the effects are not at all that bad, unlike what it is hyped to be. Thus, global warming has become a debatable theory. Much like legislation that prevents schools from teaching evolution as anything more than a theory, now there are also laws that mandate that global warming be considered debatable, and to argue both sides of it (Jonas).
The Earth's climate has changed significantly throughout history. In the last 700,000 years there have been seven cycles of glacial advance and retreat. With the abrupt end of the last ice age approximately 7,000 years ago the beginning of the modern climate era was born. In the last century the global sea level has risen 17cm. All three major global surface temperature reconstructions show that Earth has warmed since 1880. Most of this warming has occurred since the 1970s, with the 20 warmest years, having occurred since 1981 and with all 10 of the warmest years occurring in the past 12 years. There is no denying global warming. Once considered a conspiracy theory by the world’s leading governments, industries and populations; global warming
Kelly, Henry. ”Myths of Global Warming Skillfully Debunked” Lili. Irish Times, November 19 2009. Web. 15 March 2014.
The subject of global warming is as popular as the president. These both topics have always been hot subjects in everyday life. Global warming is the biggest storm headed in our way. It is also the most important issue of our times. Those ads or public service announcement on TV about global warming might not be the most attractive but the cause behind it is very important. Global warming is one of the major threats our planet is facing. Most scientists prove the fact that global warming is mainly caused by human activities rather than natural cycles. To simplify it, most mechanisms that we use are affecting earth. These mechanisms are created by humans. Therefore, humans are affecting earth.
III. Global warming is an issue that affects, not just Americans, but all living things on this planet. The effects of global warming are felt by all and can be seen with the melting of the polar caps and glaciers and rising temperatures. In fact, scientific evidence shows that the planet’s
Barry Wigmore “Global warming? It’s natural say experts” DailyMail. 13 September 2007. Web. 22, 2010.
There are many different views on whether global warming is actually real or not and possible catastrophic damage it causes. It is a big issue in politics now, everyone is arguing whether or not it is actually real or that it is just a weather pattern. People need to wake up and realize that it is real, just look at the shorter winters and the warmer weather. The Glaciers are melting, crazy weather patterns are happening, so what else could it be? We have more things to worry about as a government though.
Background and Audience Relevance: There are always conversations about our planet. We see our earths glaciers melting, weather temperature rising, and pollution affecting our resources. But for some reasons we tend to look away. We should be more aware of this potential event and I’m here to inform everyone about what actually is global warming and the effects of it.
The debate on global warming (anthropogenic warming) creates many disputes. The one thing these arguments cannot dispute is the fact that there is an increase in potent gases entering our atmosphere. Since 1750 when the concentration level was about 280 parts per million (ppm) to an even h...
While critical of global warming alarmism, this documentary does not doubt that the earth is warming. Instead, they claim that scientific evidence demonstrates that such warming is but a natural variation in earth’s climatic history, similar to the Medieval Warm Period of the Little Ice Age. The documentary uses several lines of evidence to back up this claim, including ice core data that they claim when rightly interpreted shows carbon dioxide as having a lag time when earth’s climate has warmed in the recent and distant past, making it doubtful that it could be responsible for the increase in temperature that has been observed recently. The timing of the recent warming, which was most pronounced in the late Nineteenth Century through World War II, stopped and reversed to a cooling trend in the mid-Twentieth Century, and then rapidly warmed again in the past three decades, is dissected. Since this warming began before the advent of major human sources of greenhouse gas emissions and the period of most dramatic industrial...
I first asked Adam to tell me his definition of global warming and how he believed it is caused. He explained that he had been learning about global warming in school since first grade and continued to talk about these issues in collage classes. Therefore, he felt knowledgeable about the topic. The earth’s climate, he said, is changing because human activities are altering the chemical composition of the atmosphere through the buildup of greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide. The heat-trapping property of this gas is undisputed. Energy burned to run cars and trucks, heat homes and businesses, and power factories are some factors responsible for the increased concentration of carbon dioxide. “Human beings are causing the release of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to the atmosphere at rates much faster than the earth can cycle them,” Adam explained. Too great a concentration of greenhouse gases can have dramatic effects on climate and significant repercussions on the world around us.