Global Warming, also known as the greenhouse effect, is believed to be an increase of the Earth's average surface temperature due to the effect of carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels which creates a climatic situation for the trapping of heat that would otherwise escape the atmosphere. This issue will affect everyone if it turns out to be true lending credence to its validity because it makes ignoring the problem akin to suicide. Nothing of our world is 100% absolute. Science is about taking empirical data and making the best educated guess possible and scientists do have compelling evidence that supports global warming (American Institute of Physics, n.d.).
History of Global Warming
Prior to the Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries and the introduction of wide-scale coal use, global warming was not an issue due to the Earth’s homeostatic state. However, carbon emissions from burning of fossil fuels enhance a natural greenhouse effect which has increased due to the
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To support their claim, advocates provide data of rising CO2 levels, increasing frequencies of hurricanes, and a decreasing in the size of arctic glaciers. Opposition to the concept of global warming includes Warsaw-based Professor Zbigniew Jaworowski and Bill Gray, Professor Emeritus of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University. Professor Jaworowski contradicted the IPCC’s claim of rising CO2 “pointing out the enormous inaccuracies in the ice-core data… as well as highly suspect editing of the CO2 data” (Jaworowski, 2007). Professor Gray asserts “The contrary views of the many warming skeptics have been largely ignored and their motives denigrated. The normal scientific process of objectively studying both sides of the question has not yet occurred” (Fort Collins Forum,