The Astounding and Indisputable Surrounding Scientific Evidence Global Warming

“Making Climate Change Understandable” is an introductory section of a larger work called Climate Change: What It Means for Us, Our Children, and Our Grandchildren, which briefly summarizes the major points of the book, the myth, and facts about climate change. The author of the book, Joseph F.C. DiMento and Pamela Doughman, writes an introduction to the major common myths of the climate change debate, those that pertain the scientific consensus on the topic, the effect of climate change on the readers, and the complex vocabulary that regularly appears in climate change studies. They mainly focus on the debunking of the common myths or disinformation associated and are usually used to contradict climate change. The DiMento and Doughman claim

Global Warming has been a very serious conversation over the last decade, because it affects every person living on the planet whether we choose to believe it or not. Most of the scientific community claims that global warming is to blame for the changes in Earth’s climate. However, there are a small number of scientists who deny the very existence of global warming. Temperatures on earth have increased approximately 1.4°F since the early 20th century. Over time, atmospheric levels of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) have notably increased. Both sides in the debate surrounding global climate change agree on the CO2 and CH4 being increased and that’s it.

Alleged Global Warming has been a hot topic and been widely reported in the American media since the 1970s. In March 2014, TED, a nonprofit committed to expanding ideas with short talks, gave a powerful presentation of the alleged current consequences of Global Warming in Gavin Schmidt’s (2014) talk: The emergent patterns of climate change. His claims are stark and he implores his audience to take the grave predictions of Global Warming seriously and not just write it off as insignificant. While Google Trends (2014) shows (graph 1) that search terms for global warming in the United States (red) have decreased while worldwide (blue) interest (image 1) fluctuates with India showing the most curiosity. Yet, not everyone agrees that Global

Climate change has been a subject of discussion in the media for many years, supported with the use of arguments against oil polluting the environment and extreme scare tactics of Polar ice caps flooding civilians backyards. The issue has been ignored by the majority of lay people as seeming too complicated, and with all the conflicting information in the media in the past, who can blame them? However, scientifically, climate change and what perpetrates it is fairly simple to understand and society as a whole is beginning to come to a clear consensus on climate change. Thanks in part to more readily available forms of media and information, people have become cognizant of the fact that climate change is a legitimate problem which requires immediate amelioration. While this may seem melodramatic, society is realizing that climate change is an issue which can no longer be denied if the human race wishes to continue.

The world is full of controversial topics. One topic has been discussed for nearly decades among the American people. The conversation on the matters of climate change has plagued the nation. Americans have set a record high for the level of concern toward climate change. Up eight percentage points, an average of forty-five percent of Americans are greatly worried about climate change and the effects that it will have on the earth (Gallup 2017). Recently, the cause of climate change has become a hot topic. Climate change can be generally defined as the changing weather patterns over a long period of time. Usually when people discuss global warming, they are actually referring to climate change since global warming is the change in the temperature of earth’s surface, one factor in climate change. Other factors of climate change include but are not limited to: changes in precipitation, severe weather patterns, and changes in the earth’s oceans. A definite answer to how these changing factors, or whether these changes are occurring, has not been presented, but that does not mean that there have not been attempts. Many people and groups of people have offered their personal opinions. Some simply share opinions with the partisan, political, group they belong to while some spend countless hours researching to form their own opinions. This has led to a melting pot of conflicting opinions. The American people have created a divide among themselves by arguing over whether climate

Supporters of the Global Warming Hoax claim that climate change is not due to human activities, instead it is produced with biased data for the purpose of financial or political gain. In this paper, nine sources, including reports from organizations, a speech from a senator, news articles and blog posts, are presented to discuss . These sources come from three perspectives: 1. Those who support the idea of global warming as a hoax; 2. Those who support the idea of global warming as a reality; 3. Academics who provide data and research relating to the issue.

Global warming is a controversial topic, widely discussed among today’s society. It is significant because it deals with the opinions and beliefs of many individuals. It also creates controversy and provides society with the opportunity to express itself and its beliefs. Many people believe that the conditions of the climate have no correlation to human behavior and that nowadays, people exaggerate the impacts of climate change. However, these individuals fail to recognize the truth behind the topic. Global warming is both a real and serious threat to our existence that humans must address by altering their actions and behaviors.

One of the first indicators of global warming when it was first discovered and discussed was the acknowledgment of rising sea levels. In many climate change and apocalypse movies the rising of the ocean is the downfall of the population of the planet. The topic about the rising sea levels was not always indisputable. When the topic of climate change was first brought up it was mostly known as global warming and connected to the greenhouse effect. The notion of oceans raising above sea level was once widely seen as controversial. New York Times articles from 1980s until now show the development of the debate on rising sea levels through time and the the further development of science. There has been a change in The New York Times reporting on the issues of rising sea levels caused by the climate change from doubt about it in the 1980’s to confirmation of the problem in 2010’s.

In the last 100 years, Earth’s average temperature has risen by 1.4°F. The rising global temperatures have caused changes in weather and climate. Global warming refers to the ongoing rise in the average temperature near Earth’s surface. This is causing a climate change, which refers to any significant change (major change in temperature, precipitation, or wind patterns) in the measures of climate lasting for an extended period of time (several decades or longer). Due to this, it is projected that the temperature will rise from 2 to 11.5°F in the next hundred years (US EPA, 2014). The “drivers,” which are the principal causes making this occur, are very controversial. It is debated whether a change in temperature is due to the work of

Climate change is a global issue that is under an endless debate for its causes. The increase in the global mean annual surface air temperature in the previous century by 0.75C (IPCC 2007) in coincidence with the excess of the carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations in the atmosphere from 289 to 353 ppm (Lean et al. 1995) by burning fossil fuels support the human-induced hypothesis of climate change. On the other hand, the protestors of the natural origin of climate change build their argument on the variations of solar radiation and volcanic activities (Rind and Overpeck 1993). Meehl et al. (2005) report that the global warming will continue in this century, even if the greenhouse gasses are stabilized. This reveals that the climate change is

The issue of anthropogenic climate change, more commonly identified as global warming, has become hotly debated in the media and political arenas. Critics argue that global warming does not exist and that it is merely a fiction created by the science community. Such critics argue further that what scientists are describing as global warming is either a transitory condition or part a cyclical situation that has occurred throughout history. As a result of this critical opposition the question becomes global warming is a problem that needs immediate and/or long term attention? What the critics of global warming are failing to consider is the mountains of evidence provide by the scientific community that supports the fact that global warming is a reality and that it is human behavior that has caused this condition and it is only human behavior that can remedy the situation. Within the scientific community there is little disagreement that global warming is a serious problem.

There have been some debates recently within the political and scientific communities of global warming: if it's real, what’s causing it, and what we can do to stop it. There are many natural factors such as water vapour or variations in the sun’s energy that could be causing global warming; but, there is also evidence that is man made by rising carbon dioxide emissions.

Climate contrarians have relied on multiple tactics to dispute evidence of global warming and climate change, but none has perhaps been more effective than using the public 's lack of scientific knowledge against itself. Groups such as Cooler Heads Coalition and Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) have “fostered a public image of climate science as a criminal conspiracy” and has gone so far as to accuse NASA of “faking important climate data sets” (Oreskes). But in order to understand how skeptics have so easily cast doubt in people 's minds, it is necessary to understand the essential science of global warming itself. Global warming is caused by the incidence of solar radiation emitted by the sun. The radiation acts upon certain gas particles in the Earth’s atmosphere and the surface of the Earth, which then absorbs the longer wavelength (infrared radiation) or heat (Chattopadhyay 1). The more of these gas particles are in the atmosphere, specifically carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, sulfur dioxide and water vapor, the longer infrared radiation stays within the atmosphere before escaping back into space. Typically, these gases exist at relatively small amounts in the Earth’s atmosphere, consisting roughly of about 1% out of a 99% mechanical mixture

In the 1980’s, scientists discovered three important pieces of information that would shape American politics and the environment for years to come. The Earth was getting warmer, the warming was caused by human pollution to the air and sea, and future generations would suffer (Hansen). Few believed these environmentalists at first, but as science progressed, the signs that climate change was a real threat became more and more apparent. Today, the debate on climate change is a popular topic, especially in national politics. Although one may assume the first step to fixing these environmental problems is to talk about it, evidence shows that political debate over the issue actually masks it

The majority of the scientific community has agreed that global warming is real, and the major culprit in this crime is humans. Yet there are some organizations who consider global warming a myth, some have argued that there has been a reduction in the rising of the global temperature, consequently causing civilians to refute the idea of the earth “warming”. This false information has led to little or no coverage about this issue; subsequently producing little or no solutions to this problem ravaging the place we call home. Among the major effects of global warming are the acidification of the ocean, the increase in drought and heat waves, and the continued warming of the ocean.