Global Warming: The Theory Of Climate Change

The theory of climate change, also known as global warming, has been an ever growing topic researched for hopes of one day figuring the cause of it. Studies held over the last few decades have indicated a slight rise in the Earth’s temperature annually and scientist and environmentalist have made it their goal to find the root of this global temperature increase hoping that there will be some cure to bring climate change to a halt. Like many hot topics that deal with some sort of danger or something that has an effect on everyone around the world, there are almost always at least two different views that can both be taken with consideration. When it comes to climate change or anything however that has brought harm to the environment and the …show more content…
The Greenhouse effect is “a warming effect caused by certain gases that retain heat from sunlight. Without such gases, the average surface temperature of the Earth would be below freezing. The global warming debate is centered upon whether added greenhouse gases released by human activity will overheat the Earth and cause harmful effects”. (Agresti) Also Agresti points out that the portion of gas in atmosphere attributed to human activity is roughly eighty-seven percent. (Agresti) There are hundreds of statistics that researchers have developed to back their case that climate change is a result of mankind but there are also many others that support the alternate view that climate change is an ever going natural cycle our globe goes …show more content…
Some of these environmental radicals fight against climate change because they truly believe that climate change is the result of us people. A writer for Forbes points out in his article Blood and Gore: Making a Killing on Anti-Carbon Investment Hype, that others on the other hand have a different agenda. They see benefit in the talk of apocalyptic global warming in the future. They beat it into people until they are terrified and are willing to do anything to help stop global warming. As a result of this they have created an army so to speak that is willing to fight for change. Large bodies of land have been bought up in underdeveloped countries that will in turn be bought out by carbon emitting companies. These lands will be used for building mass amounts of solar panels and wind turbines to produce green energy. This process is called carbon offsets. The carbon emitting company will then have to pay huge sums of money for carbon credits based on how much carbon they produce. (Bell) Al Gore plays a major role in this and will be one to reap enormous benefits and political gain from it also. Bell gathers a quote from a Judge in London’s High Court, Sir Micheal Burton, after controversy had been