Everyone has heard the term global warming, but how is this major issue being defined? To many people, global warming is defined as the steady rise of the Earth’s temperature from an excess of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere. To numberless others, global warming is simply that the climate change and carbon emission has nothing to do with it. While this last definition seems to be the easiest due to being less scary and not having to deal with the problem, it does not mean it is correct. As difficult as it maybe to accept the truth, people are slowly making their own home an oven; therefore, leading to fluctuations in the weather patterns, drastically rising sea levels, the extinction of many species, and an overabundance of
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The arguments denying global warming vary, but most are based on two theories: Climate change occurs in patterns, and human emitted carbon dioxide is miniscule compared to other greenhouse gases. According to retired environmental consultant Edmund Contoski, “In the last 1.6 million years there have been 63 alternations between warm and cold climates, and no indication that any of them were caused by changes in carbon dioxide levels.” This claim was proven wrong by scientists by drilling into icebergs millions of years old--where they found that even at the warmest of times in geological history, there was still less carbon than there is today (Glick). This shows us that the carbon in the atmosphere is unnaturally altering the climate. The other argument claiming carbon is one of the least predominant greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere is true--considering carbon is 3 percent of the atmosphere and most of the other gas is water vapor (Contoski). But what they fail to tell you is that as the carbon increases ever so slightly, the amount of water vapor in the air increases as well, and as harmless as it seems, water vapor has a very similar effect to the environment that carbon does (Glick). Considering all this, it becomes obvious that by upsetting the natural atmospheric balance by emitting carbon, it is making the Earth
The arguments denying global warming vary, but most are based on two theories: Climate change occurs in patterns, and human emitted carbon dioxide is miniscule compared to other greenhouse gases. According to retired environmental consultant Edmund Contoski, “In the last 1.6 million years there have been 63 alternations between warm and cold climates, and no indication that any of them were caused by changes in carbon dioxide levels.” This claim was proven wrong by scientists by drilling into icebergs millions of years old--where they found that even at the warmest of times in geological history, there was still less carbon than there is today (Glick). This shows us that the carbon in the atmosphere is unnaturally altering the climate. The other argument claiming carbon is one of the least predominant greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere is true--considering carbon is 3 percent of the atmosphere and most of the other gas is water vapor (Contoski). But what they fail to tell you is that as the carbon increases ever so slightly, the amount of water vapor in the air increases as well, and as harmless as it seems, water vapor has a very similar effect to the environment that carbon does (Glick). Considering all this, it becomes obvious that by upsetting the natural atmospheric balance by emitting carbon, it is making the Earth