Global warming
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Global warming has been the subject of much debate since the concept of the greenhouse effect was first introduced by Nobel prize winning scientist Svante Arrhenius in 1896. Inspired by the onset of the industrial revolution, Arrhenius theorized that the earth's temperature would rise as a result of the mass consumption of fossil fuels. However, he postulated that humanity would flourish in a warmer climate, whereas there is a growing consensus in the scientific community today that just the opposite is the case. Global warming is also referred to as the greenhouse effect and is put in terms of climate change. Scientists, meteorologists, climatologists, astronomers, and other interested parties have been measuring and recording temperature readings for decades upon decades. Furthermore, they have developed the technology necessary to determine temperature changes from hundreds centuries ago. These scientists have found "no evidence of a cycle of warming in the fossil record, or in the core samples taken from the ocean depths, or in the growth rings of trees, or in the ice cores drawn from the spinning axis of the world, that matches the pattern of the past century, which saw the rise of modern industry and the widespread release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere" (Christianson, 1999, online). While some aspects of global warming are subject to debate, numbers don't often lie, and this fact has never been successfully dis
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scientific community, but skeptics point to the complex factorsincluding natural variablesthat affect climate. A new statistical analysis bolsters the evidence that the Earth is growing warmer, and that humans are substantially to blame" (Powell, 1998, Discover Magazine online).
What's the Solution to Global Warming?
Observations of climate change from the past century prove undeniably that global temperatures are rising. The earth is inarguably getting warmer and it appears to be a result of human folly. But since the scope of the problem and the extent of human responsibility for it are unclear, and predictions pertaining to the consequences of climate change are so varied, the proposed solutions to it are as divergent as they are controversial.
There are those who would choose to ignore the problem. However, "many of the most vociferous naysayers are astronomers, chemists and physicists people with established reputations but who often have no track record in climatology and the environmental sciences" (Christianson, 1999, online). These parties often attempt to turn the scientific logic behind warnings of climate change into an ideological, spiritual or political debate.
This posturing impedes the very st
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