Global Warming Is a Hype Essay
Global Warming is a Hype
Terra Nova is a new American TV series on the Fox network, which airs on Mondays and has caught the attention of a wide audience for its science fiction suspense. The show is intriguing because it relates to a huge debate going on right now amongst scientist, politicians and environmentalist; Global Warming. Is it real and if so, are humans the cause. In Terra Nova it is year 2149 and Earth is being destroyed to extinction due to air quality and overpopulation therefore, it has become impossible for humanity to survive and almost no vegetation exists. This leads humans to scramble and figure out a way to survive by trying to go back in time and not make the same mistakes. …show more content…
Although man-made Carbon dioxide has increased from 1950 to present, temperatures from 1940 to 1980 decreased. The truth is that CO2 is a natural gas that has always been a fraction of the atmospheric content. Carbon dioxide traps an estimated 10-20% of the Earth’s heat, making other atmospheric events bigger factors in Earth’s climate change. At least 70-80% of Earth’s warming effects come from water vapor and clouds, not CO2. Other major contributors to warming include high altitude cirrus clouds and sunspots. Cirrus clouds are thin which form when water vapor undergoes deposition at altitudes above 18,000 ft in temperate regions and above 20,000 ft in tropical regions. Studies show that cirrus clouds raise the temperature of the air beneath them by an average of 10 °C (18 °F). The sun is composed of highly magnetic plasma which is constantly