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Global Warming: The Issues and Debates

Global Warming: The Issues and Debates

Global warming is a phenomenon that refers to the increased levels of carbon dioxide in the environment due to manmade activity. The buildup of carbon dioxide causes atmospheric temperature to rise, which causes sea level to rise, and carbon dioxide is absorbed by the ocean and polar ice. The reason global warming is so controversial is because the Bush Administration fails to consider the phenomenon a result of manmade activity. However, in An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore maintains that global warming is real, it is caused by human activity, and mankind and government must act immediately to halt and reverse it (Guggenheim, 2006). In ten years the damage to our planet may reach a "tipping point," from where there is no human activity that can halt or reverse it (Guggenheim, 2006). This analysis will discuss the phenomenon of global warming, including how it is affecting our planet and what needs to be done about.

Global warming could play havoc with the world's climate, threaten ecosystems and marine life, and affect human health and well-being. Increased industrialization over the past century is the main culprit in causing the phenomenon in the minds of scientists. Carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere from car exhaust, smokestacks, chimneys and other sources of air pollution. Deforestation due to industry exacerbates the problem. According to Lee (2002), rainforests are being depleted by approximately 160,000 sq. kilometers annually, with forest and soils holding about 40 percent of the earth's "terrestrial carbon" (p. 7). Deforestation accounts for approximately 30 percent of the atmospheric buildup of carbon dioxide over the past century (Lee, 2002, p. 7).

Global warming is responsible for any number of negative effects on the environment that ultimately threaten the destruction of civilization and the planet itself. According to Gore, ...

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