The prevailing counter opinion is that all that is presently perceived to be global warming is simply the result of a normal climactic swing in the direction of increased temperature. Most proponents of this global warming ideology have definitive social and financial interests in these claims.
Global warming is real. It is not the result of a natural climatic adjustment. It is a quantifiable set of environmental results that are in addition to any normal changes in climate. That is why the effects of global warming have catastrophic potential. Global warming is the straw that breaks the camel’s back. It is the difference between a category three hurricane and a category four. Global warming is an imbalance of nature.
The premise of global warming is that industrial growth coupled with non-structured methods we as humans use to sustain ourselves has created a situation where our planet is getting hotter by the minute. We have seemingly negatively effected our environment by a cycle of harmful processes that now seem to be feeding upon themselves to exponentially increase the damage to our ecosystem.
Causes of Global Warming
Let us start our examination of Global warming with a study of its causes. Global warming is an overall state of existence that is the cumulative effect of hundreds of environmental factors. All of these join together in both a linear and random model to show global warming as a chain of events.
Most modern attention to the problem of global warming began with discussion of depletion of the Earth’s Ozone layer. Ozone (O3) is a molecular form of Oxygen. The Ozone layer is a relatively thin strata of these molecules s
et in the lower portion of the Earth’s stratosphere.Depletion of the Earth’s Ozone layer has resulted in a large increase in Ultra Violet Radiation reaching the surface of the earth. Does this increase in UV rays equate to global warming? Not really. In fact most scientific opinion is that depletion of the Ozone layer results in cooling of both the stratosphere and troposphere. So why mention depletion of the Ozone layer as regards to global warming? Because it represents a needed balance between harmful radiation being allowed to reach the earth’s surface and our desire to stem the rapid increase in our air and water temperature. Remember, we are viewing global warming as a chain of events.
MYTHS of Global Warming
Global temperatures are rising at a rapid, unprecedented rate.
FACT: Accurate satellite, balloon and mountain top observations made over the last three decades have not shown any significant change in the long term rate of increase in global temperatures. Average ground station readings do show a mild warming of 0.6 to 0.8Cover the last 100 years, which is well within the natural variations recorded in the last millennium. The ground station network suffers from an uneven distribution across the globe; the stations are preferentially located in growing urban and industrial areas ("heat islands"), which show substantially higher readings than adjacent rural areas ("land use effects").
Global warming will cause more storms and other weather extremes.
FACT: There is no scientific or statistical evidence whatsoever that supports such claims on a global scale. Regional variations may occur. Growing insurance and infrastructure repair costs, particularly in coastal areas, are sometimes claimed to be the result of increasing frequency and severity of storms, whereas in reality they are a function of increasing population density, escalating development value, and ever more media reporting.
Receding glaciers and the calving of ice shelves are proof of global warming.
FACT: Glaciers have been receding and growing cyclically for hundreds of years. Recent glacier melting is a consequence of coming out of the very cool period of the Little Ice Age. Ice shelves have been breaking off for centuries. Scientists know of at least 33 periods of glaciers growing and then retreating. It’s normal. Besides, glacier's health is dependent as much on precipitation as on temperature.
The earth’s poles are warming; polar ice caps are breaking up and melting and the sea level rising.
FACT: The earth is variable. The western Arctic m
ay be getting somewhat warmer, due to unrelated cyclic events in the Pacific Ocean, but the Eastern Arctic and Greenland are getting colder. The small Palmer Peninsula of Antarctica is getting warmer, while the main Antarctic continent is actually cooling. Ice thicknesses are increasing both on Greenland and in Antarctica.
Sea level monitoring in the Pacific (Tuvalu) and Indian Oceans (Maldives) has shown no sign of any sea level rise.
And what do you think about global warming?
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I think we should use the "golden rule" method while reacting to global warming. Some initiatives are very good - like searching for alternative sources of energy. But we also should not overreact - the climate is always changing - not everybody knows that between 10th and 13th century the average temperature was 1-3 degrees higher than now. On the other hand, 17th century was much colder - even Baltic sea was freezed (that's partially. why Sweden so easily conquered Poland).
ReplyDeleteI agree with BG - our climate is always changing without our "help". But we have to remember about some rules and we should care about our nature. There are of course a lot of problems which we can solve cause it's connected with huge firms and concerns. I'm not an expert but I know there are easy things which we can do like assortment trashes or saving energy and it may help to save our nature.
ReplyDeleteFor me a very fashionable topic of global warming is quite annoying, because it cames to be almost without a break,it's about duty. I almost fell like just that nothing happens in politics is interesting is extracted about the climate and global warming. I think it's highly overrated case.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Igula that this topic is quite fashionable. People in Poland say a lot about global warming and the ways how to fight with it but in fact they do nothing. It's cosily not to think about our influence on the environment but it doesn't mean that the effects won't be frightening.
ReplyDeleteI agree with BG's. There is no such thing as human made global warming. Its a natural period of climate history of our planet. There were cooler periods, and after there were hotter periods. Unfortunately climate is changing and people must prepare for it, and not just deliberate about guilt of man or nature of causing global warming.
ReplyDeleteEverything what I think about global warming is in that movie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkayHv1nuoM . That hysteria about influence on the earth made by people is absurd. Probably some group of people wanted to make cash or stupidness of another people and they did it. Countries pay a large amounts of money for some pseudoecological organistation and Al Gore won a Nobel Prize. In that moment i'm looking through my window and singing 'i don't believe in global warming...''
ReplyDeleteIt's a truth that global warming is a real problem of our civilization. Today's weather is incredible: snow in April, huracanes, floods - snow in the spring is also the effect of this situation! But the disaster isn't as big as media suggest us. It's not truth that the oceans' level is higher and higher - it's a joke!But we must reorganize our industry, especially producting cars - it's the main cause of global warming, I suppose so.
ReplyDeleteI agree that media try to exaggerate this problem, which unfortunately exists caused by humans activity.
ReplyDeleteWe can retard some symptoms, but progressing global warming is unavoidable.
And I can't agree that today's weather is incredible, maybe it will be for some time.
I think that global warming is a real problem in modern times. We should change our behaviours because in this speed of using natural sources of energy there will be anything left for the next generations. I believe that politicians are lazy in this matter and their efforts to reduce the global warming are too weak. Additionaly the United States which produce the main part of world's foulness don't support counteractions. They only discuss this problem but don't make any action.
ReplyDeleteGlobal warming!? I'm looking through window and everything is white and cold. But I think... maybe only this year? I hate winter.
ReplyDeleteNow seriously - on the Earth was (I hope, I remember good) eight glacial cycles with warmer interglacials. Periodic changes are the basic features of climat. And warming, in which we live, is a part of next interglacial, so maybe in future we will talk about bigger problem: global colding? I'm not a geologist, but I think that global warming isn't so dangerous, as media want to show it. Even greenhouse gases emited by people, couldn't be the only one guilty.
In my opinion the best to sum up is to read a Report of Polish Academy of Science:
http://www.kngeol.pan.pl/images/stories/pliki/2.Stanowisko%20KNG%20w%20sprawie%20zmian%20klimatu.pdf
It is hard to say how big influence on warming caused the man and how big is influance of the nature. But there are some facts about which we should remember: there had never been so much CO2 in athmosphere, the ozone layer had never been so thin, there had never been so much pollution in oceans etc. Maybe this factors in fact don't cause global warming (we'll probably never know that for sure) but they cause many other dangerous situations in environment. We should compete with them, even if it will be colder and colder.
ReplyDeleteI've heard that the global warming is mostly caused by cows, not by people. Cows produce a lot of methane, which is one of the factors that brings on that problem. But I've read it in a German course book, and I'm not absolutely certain I should believe it. xD.
ReplyDeleteI think that even if human isn't the main culprit of global warming, or the problem of global warming is just a myth, it's obvious that enviroment is in danger. The acid rain is destroing forests, smog is poisoning people and animals, a lot of animal and plant species are extinct. People should take care of enviroment - we can't live without it.
I agree with my predecessors that our planet needs help. All the activities that people do (deforestation, drying lakes), a willingness to intervene in nature contributed to the greenhouse effects. I think that now we should do everything to protect our plant and to offsetting this problem.
ReplyDeleteWhen I'm looking through window I see snow. When I'm going somewhere I feel severe frost...and where is a global warming?
ReplyDeleteOk, I'm just joking;-) - the simple truth that The Capitan Planet and his partners are needed;-).
Global warming -i t is very dangerous phenomenon. Really it is a big problem for our world. We have to resolve it - all the people in the world...
Global warming is very dangerous for our world and our lifes. we can manage with that only if we start resolve it all together. other way it will come to us for sure.
ReplyDeleteI think that we should care about our planet more. There should be more educational programs at schools and in media to show people what exactly global warming is. And the other thing is to learn how we can help our planet.
ReplyDelete(What is funny, few weeks ago I head an audition in the radio, that there isn't anything like global warming. That same people imagined this problem to earn money! You know, people sends lots of money to organisations which are supposed to stop a bit global warming, but they don't do this because there is nothing like GLOBAL WARMING:))
Topic About global warming is now "on time". State governments are trying to strive to promote environmentally friendly behavior among humans, for example, saving enegii. For this reason, the heads of state meet at the G8 summit to determine the climate protection program. on the other hand, there is a group of people who claim that global warming is a "big fake" So we have conflicting opinions and the question whom to believe? I think if global warming exists is environmentally friendly behavior is appropriate and if there is no global warming we don't lose anythink by pro-ecological behavior
ReplyDeleteWhere is the global warming? I see more and more snow when I see at the window!
ReplyDeleteWe don't remember that the global warming isn't only cause people. Look at the volcanos, for example, eruptions also cause of global warming!
If people don't want global warming would they stop cutting out trees in Amazon's Jungle. I think that it's the biggest problem in our time. People don't respect nature and it will be revenge themselves.
ReplyDeleteHa! Global warming is a myth. Even Polish Science Academy agrees. It was proved that climate on the Earth constantly changes and hot periods are followed by cold ones and those are followed by hot, and so on... And I agree with Ula, natural phenomena has greater influence on the global temperature than human actions. For example in 18th or 19th century there was a huge volcano eruption in Asia. The dust from it was spread all over the Earth and created a greenhouse effect which caused noticeable increase of global temperature.
ReplyDeleteI think it is partly a myth and manipulation of groups of interest . This winter shows us something different and we have to spend fortunes on heating.
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