Every time one opens Facebook, Snapchat, or a geographical magazine, they are bombarded with news about global warming and what we can do to stop it. Sites such as nymag.com ,who recently posted the article The Uninhabitable Earth, believe that because people are burning fossil fuels through actions such as using air conditioners and driving cars we are slowly destroying the planet. In a scientific debate, both sides of the story must be explored.
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According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), global warming is primarily caused by humans putting too much CO2 into the atmosphere through burning coal, oil, and natural gas. The IPCC believes the earth is getting warmer because more CO2 is put in the atmosphere through burning
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The Little Ice age occurred from about 1300 to 1800, practically all of the world's glaciers advanced and now they are receding. The flood resulted in a global cooling period. Some do not base their climate history research off of the planet's ability to recover from phases of change like this, and they come to many wrong conclusions.One should logically assume most of what is going on today is very natural, the earth is going through a series of long term climatic cycles. It seems to be a set of normal cycles in an abnormal …show more content…
It may appear to have been lately, but other times it doesn’t appear to be at all. This is another reason scientists come to wrong conclusions about the climate’s CO2. The IPCC is highly concerned that in the past 50 years the present CO2 concentration has risen above 300ppm, higher than the ceiling they believe has always been existent. The CO2 concentration has always stayed between 180ppm and 300pm. The CO2 concentration “floor” has never gone below 180ppm, the point at which plants can’t survive. Is it an accident that the CO2 concentration stayed in a range that allowed plants to survive, or was it by design? Some scientists believe the earth's temperature will raise as much as 8 degrees Celsius in the next decade. Based on this theory, they predict earth is heading to