Global Warming: Fact or Fiction Adelina Garcia American Intercontinental University Week 1 Abstract Global warming is defined as a climate change that increase the temperature on the earth’s atmosphere which is attributed to the effect of greenhouse gases that have increased in carbon dioxide, chloroflurocarbons, and other pollutants that may entrap the heat and prevent it from escaping Earth (Oxford Dictionaries, 2013). This is usually due to the interference of man by releasing an excessive
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hazardous problems facing the world today is global warming. Many experts believe that the production of green house gases especially carbon dioxide and methane is heating the atmosphere and this could be very dangerous for human life and for the life in general. Scientists have been busily searching and studying in order to determine precisely what the primary “key factors” are behind this progressive “heating up” process. CAUSES OF GLOBAL WARMING Scientists have determined that a number of
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“George W Bush once said, “How is Global Warming real?” If we wanted to, we could dramatically lower temperature by switching from Fahrenheit to Celsius. On the scientific note, however, the point is not as simple as just changing the unit of measurement. The values of Americans are polluted by the agendas of politics and entertainment. Subconsciously, the values we hold regarding topics such as Global Warming are intertwined with mass media. For example, we look at Carbon Dioxide and only Carbon
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award winning documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, by Al Gore is an eye opener and somehow it is a wake up call for me. I have heard about global warming way back high school and heard it often when I entered college. I knew the meaning of the term global warming and that was it. I knew a little about it, what causes global warming and how fatal are its effects to Earth. And honestly, I never really cared. I was one of those people who treat it very lightly and after watching An Inconvenient Truth
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Global warming and climate change are terms for the observed century-scale rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system and its related effects.[2] Multiple lines of scientific evidence show that the climate system is warming.[3][4][5] Although the increase of near-surface atmospheric temperature is the measure of global warming often reported in the popular press, most of the additional energy stored in the climate system since 1970 has gone into ocean warming. The remainder has
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Global Warming Global warming has been one of the most fervently debated and scientifically challenging topics of the 21st century. According to NASA, as early as 1904, Swedish scientist, Svante Arrhenius, was among the “first persons acknowledged to investigate the effects of doubling atmospheric carbon dioxide and how this would affect the global climate”. (1) As technology and scientific studies progressed throughout the 1900’s and into the 21st century, the effect of human civilizations on
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Global Warming Global warming is an environmental issue that is concerning masses of people. Global warming has been an issue for many years. One area of this issue that is taking over right now is whether global warming is due to human actions or if global warming is due to natural cause. Some people believe global warming is due to human actions of pollutants such as burning fossil fuel, coal, and oil, human finger prints, and deforestation; while other people believe it is a natural cause
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Climate Change: Is Global Warming To Blame? Climate change is a serious reason for concern, because it affects every person living on the planet. The vast majority of the scientific community claims that anthropogenic global warming is to blame for these changes. However, there are a small number of people who deny the very existence of global warming. Their words carry a certain amount of weight in some circles, but they lack scientific proof to support these arguments. The effects of climate change
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The Global Warming Debate Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of the earth. Scientists believe that it started in the mid 20th century. The green house effect is the scientific belief that the earth is slowly getting hotter. Most scientists believe that this is due to the fact we have been polluting the atmosphere with damaging gases such as carbon dioxide, sulphur and methane. These gases have been building up in our atmosphere. When the sun shines on the earth its rays
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ice, rising sea levels, decreased snow cover, glacial retreat, warming oceans, shrinking ice sheets extreme events, ocean acidification. What do these have in common? Two words: Global Warming. The Earth’s global temperature has change throughout history but never have the Earth’s temperatures have been as high as they are now. After the Industrial revolution, global warming has increasingly becoming a threat. Consequently, global warming is becoming a bigger threat that needs to be addressed before
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