The vast amount of opposing views from qualified scientists on global warming can easily confuse any reader. The manipulation of data is a main culprit, which is largely to blame for the confusion. This tactic, carefully used by global warming skeptics, falsely makes information appear to prove that global warming does not exist. Fred Singer’s 10 year graph, which shows no rise in global temperatures is a perfect example. While the 10 years Singer has selected show no warming in temperature, when the graph is viewed in its entirety there is a substantial warming trend. This term is known as “going down the up escalator” (Upin) and is used as an attempt to prove global warming does not exist. This is very dangerous because while skeptic’s present…
In “Climate of Complete Certainty”, Bret Stephens asserts that the scepticism towards climate change results from the total certainty scientists impresses onto the public about global warming, despite scientific errors (Stephens, 2017). He criticizes the scientific community for being misleading with data that he claims has not been thoroughly investigated. With that, it is evident what Stephens neglects to understand is how the scientific community operates and why there is scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change. Climate science does not claim total certainty, but the interpretation of the present empirical evidence points towards anthropogenic climate change.…
Now it appears that the assessment was too optimistic. The latest data from across the globe show that the planet is changing faster than expected. More sea ice around the Arctic Ocean is disappearing than had been forecast. Regions of permafrost across Alaska and Siberia are spewing out more methane, the potent greenhouse gas, than models had predicted. Ice shelves in West Antarctica are breaking up more quickly than once thought possible, and the glaciers they held back on adjacent land are sliding faster into the sea. Extreme weather events, such as floods and the heat wave that gripped much of the U.S. in the summer of 2012 are on the rise, too. The conclusion? "As scientists, we cannot say that if we stay below two degrees of warming everything will be fine," says Stefan Rahmstorf, a professor of physics of the oceans at the University…
The Earth’s climate has changed over the last century. Increases in average temperatures have been seen around the globe and there is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed of the last 50 years is due to human activities.…
The idea of climate change, for many, is an opinionated subject with much discussion of whether it is a real issue or just a natural phenomenon. However in recent years it is clear to see that trends in the Earth’s climate and surface temperature has spiked to levels never seen before. Despite all the evidence of the high levels of greenhouses gases and the rise in temperature, many still believe that there is no connection between the two, and that the Earth is just going through its natural cycle.…
Anthropogenic climate change is an establishment phenomenon. Within the scientific community, the question is no longer whether climate change will occur, but at what rate, with what effects, and what, if anything, we can do about it. The biggest culprit in climate change is an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide, which is generated primarily through burning fossils. Earth’s average temperature is based on daily measurements taken at several thousand land based meteorological stations around the world, as well as data from weather balloons, orbiting satellites, transoceanic ships, and hundreds of sea surface buoys with temperature sensors. Scientists around the world have researched global climate change for several decades. As the evidence has accumulated, the most qualified to address the issue have concluded that temperatures have increased over the past century, that it is extremely unlikely that natural causes can explain the warming, and the human produced greenhouse gases are the plausible explanation for the warming that has occurred.…
The author raised the fact that we have observed for many years important climate changes as a result of our increased pollution and production of carbon dioxide. To address this important problem an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was created. However, even with all the cumulative research data of more than 1,000 panels of scientists, we are still not able to predict with precision, the actual changes in climate!…
can only be used within such time sca/es, The evidence of past climatic change is many and…
Global Warming is an increase in the earth's average atmospheric temperature that causes corresponding changes in climate and that may result from the greenhouse effect. Thus there is no indication that the warming between “1975-1998” and “1975 to 2009” is unnatural, unusual and/or caused by anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions. Global Warming may have started in 1975, but there is no observable evidence of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emission based global warming began in 1975. Most climate scientists agree the main cause of the current global warming trend is human expansion of the “greenhouse effect” warming that results when the atmosphere traps heat radiating from earth towards space.Yet the big question standing still is, is Global Warming real? Well here's what you need to know about the warming planet, how it's affecting us, and whats at stake. In recent years, global warming has been the subject of a great deal of political…
There are many important facts that can help a person realize that global warming is real wither its mankind’s fault or the Earth’s fault it is happing and it is real. One of the easiest ways to see how global warming is real is by visiting South Louisiana, the place had no winter last year and it was only cold because of cold fronts. There are many causes to global warming for example the burning of fossil fuels causes greenhouse gases such as carbon monoxide which trap heat otherwise escape from Earth ("11 facts about,”). Human take their role in global warming…
Third, they point to recent model projections that have shown that the earth will warm as much as 11 degrees Fahrenheit over the next century. One should be careful when looking at model projections. After all, these models…
Many Americans, and as well as others around the world, believe that climate change doesn’t exist. However, there are many facts and signs pointing towards to the opposing side. Even NASA has confirmed the realness of climate change, and it’s extremely uncanny.…
In recent years, a shroud of uncertainty has fallen over the concept of climate change and human involvement in it. Rather than being taken as fact, some have elected to dispute its validity or dismiss its significance. Climate change is the most important issue today, and is evidenced by undisputable scientific research.…
In the article called, “Real Holes in Climate Science” mentions about the IPCC in 2007, that there were uncertain measurements on past temperatures. Scientist and researchers are trying their best to understand the climate, but it is very hard to predict the outcomes, where there is so much going around the world, doing different things. To know more about the climate, one must understand the tools for understanding the processes. For example, “the water flow, in 2050, Colorado River will decrease, if researchers can improve how the climate will simulate with certain variables it be good to forecast for policy makers” (Schiermeier 285) With scientist collecting more data, it will be more reliable to not only policy makers, but to the public. Although, lots of experts are cautious on making future predictions, because the climate is always changing and data will change because of different results. Leonard Smith, a statistician and climate analyst at the London School of Economics and Political Science, says “Our current climate models are just not up to informed decision-making at the resolution of most countries” (Schiermeier 285). The climate models can’t always be accurate, into the decision making, but it doesn’t mean its useless information. It becomes very hard to predict new change because of human activity. One of the main weakness about climate…
The NOAA also known as National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, has been taking data of the ocean temperature for years to analyze climate change, though in a recent leak from a former NOAA scientist, the data taken from the ocean were not from buoys, which was how they were taking data originally but they weren't getting the results they wanted. Since they saw that the water was getting colder, which contradicted climate change, they decided to switch halfway through the experiment to taking data from cargo boats, which had a warmer effect on the readers and caused the data to be inaccurate. This is biased towards that fact that they want there to be climate change, as they have predicted, but altered the data to do this.…