The predominant belief behind the idea is that human activity and toxic gas emissions, such as carbon dioxide, have increased exponentially since the Industrial Revolution. ... However, in the scientific community, it doesn't require much to disprove a theory. ... This belief is widely consistent in the scientific community with the data presented in the infamous Hockey Stick Model, wherein a large margin of error can be noted. ... Oddly enough, the temperatures recorded during this time period surpassed even present day records by a wide margin, but occurred thousands of years earlier, l...

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Since the industrial revolution, the atmosphere has been altered adversely, an action that has brought about climate change. ... Scientific Uncertainty The writers who entertain this argument imply that it is not known and reliably estimated the probability that climate change will occur. ... One argument that exists to support this theory is that IPCC does not base its statistics on technical and scientific facts. ... This should not be downplayed since; although there is not much scientific proof as to the occurrence of climate change in the future, there also have not been much criticism ab...

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Although there is a natural cycle, the pattern is being altered due to effects of harsh chemicals exposed to the atmosphere beginning in the Industrial Revolution. Science has repeatedly proven the existence of global warming, however the battle to convince the public is no longer scientific. ... The notion of climate change has accumulated support in recent years, but the presence of temperature heating beyond the normal cycle has been present since the time of the Industrial Revolution and only gained the political aspect years later. However, it was not until the 1950s when scientific findi...

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According to John Houghton, Co-Chairman of the Scientific Assessment of Climate Change, "the basic principle of global warming can be understood by considering the radiation energy from the sun which warms the Earth's surface and the thermal radiation from the Earth and the atmosphere which is radiated out to space" (Houghton, 12). ... "Since the beginning of the industrial revolution, atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide have increased nearly 30%, methane concentrations have more than doubled, and nitrous oxide concentrations have risen 15%" (U.S. ...

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The accurate warnings and scientific analysis should not be disregarded. ... An Inconvenient Truth is scientifically accurate but still with few discrepancies in some explanation and yet it is still understandable by people who are not very knowledgeable on things scientifically. ...

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Later on, McKibben started talking about the Industrial Revolution and the negative impacts on our ecosystem; the concentration of carbon dioxide that was once 275 parts per million is now 380 parts per million, meaning that there is already more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than there has been for twenty million years. ... The poor word choices; specifically the scientific terms, requires a better knowledge in the filed of science in order for you to fully comprehend what McKibben and Zakin are trying to say. ...

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However, during the Industrial Revolution, we began altering our climate and environment through changing agricultural and industrial practices. Before the Industrial Revolution, human activity released very few gases into the atmosphere, but now through population growth, fossil fuel burning, and deforestation, we are affecting the mixture of gases in the atmosphere. ...

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