One of the hottest topics in the United States is the issue of global warming. ... This must have been a surprise indeed to all of those scientists in the world who have understood both the fact that our earth is getting hotter and the mechanism underlying this global climate shift for a number of years. ...
According to professor Jonathan Baron, "It might be argued that we should have known about global warming since 1896, when Svante Arrhenius first proposed the idea and then provided estimates that agree fairly well with modern computer models," (140). This shows that people were careless about this...
Although a controversial topic, there is no doubt that both natural processes and human activity has had an adverse effect of the global climate. ... Extremes are at both ends of the spectrum, summers become even hotter and winters even colder. ...
Global Warming - Its Implications on the Human Population Though there is some scepticism that climate change is a result of human actions, it is unlikely to be a natural event. Some dismiss the phenomenon known as "global warming" as a hoax, and claim that yuppies driving SUVs could not possibly change the overall temperature of the earth. In a sense, this misguided notion is true- but climate change is much more than "yuppies driving SUVs." It is industry freely burning fossil fuels to make a profit, and about the fact that every person on the earth requires energy, a clean source for w...
