Global warming
Global warming is a topic that people all over the world have very strong feelings about. Many tests and research have been done, and we now know more than ever about it.. As our technology increases, we have a better chance of understanding this strange thing that is happening to our planet. But is global warming a natural process or is it caused by humans? Could it be blamed on our naive knowledge of the planet and how delicate it really is, or could it just be that the planet goes through this process every few thousand years?
There are many reasons that people think global warming could be caused by humans For the last century, we have been destroying our natural resources. Newspaper headlines and magazine articles have many people convinced that global warming is anthropogenic, or human caused
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carbon dioxide (in the atmosphere) is at levels higher than ever before, and carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, so it’s reasonable to say that there’s warming associated with the increase of carbon dioxide. But you can’t make the leap yet that all the cars in the world have led to what we’re observing in the thinning of the Greenland ice sheet.” said Dr. Waleed Abdalati,
Global warming has been blamed on many different natural causes. Around 1,000 A.D. until 1950 A.D. there were very large temperature deviations. This has partly been explained by volcanic eruptions and changes in the sun. Around these times, people did not have the technology to impact the Earth in that way.
“These samples suggested that a natural accumulation of snowfall might be to blame,” said Dr. Mosley-Thompson, a research scientist for Byrd Polar Research Center at the Ohio State University. Some scientists are also blaming ocean currents. From 1990-1996, a flux of warm water into the North Atlantic as part of the North Atlantic Oscillation may hold some evidence. The earth could also be warming as a response to last glacial period around 10,000 years ago. Global
There are many reasons that people think global warming could be caused by humans For the last century, we have been destroying our natural resources. Newspaper headlines and magazine articles have many people convinced that global warming is anthropogenic, or human caused
‘[;
carbon dioxide (in the atmosphere) is at levels higher than ever before, and carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, so it’s reasonable to say that there’s warming associated with the increase of carbon dioxide. But you can’t make the leap yet that all the cars in the world have led to what we’re observing in the thinning of the Greenland ice sheet.” said Dr. Waleed Abdalati,
Global warming has been blamed on many different natural causes. Around 1,000 A.D. until 1950 A.D. there were very large temperature deviations. This has partly been explained by volcanic eruptions and changes in the sun. Around these times, people did not have the technology to impact the Earth in that way.
“These samples suggested that a natural accumulation of snowfall might be to blame,” said Dr. Mosley-Thompson, a research scientist for Byrd Polar Research Center at the Ohio State University. Some scientists are also blaming ocean currents. From 1990-1996, a flux of warm water into the North Atlantic as part of the North Atlantic Oscillation may hold some evidence. The earth could also be warming as a response to last glacial period around 10,000 years ago. Global