Global Warming Persuasive Essay

Global warning is not an issue that should be put aside; the Earth needs help, and the only option it has is the people who live on it. Society needs to put aside their incredible need to be overindulgent and start taking action to help the planet. If action does not take place to move the world to a greener more efficient one soon, then it will be too late. The planet has already begun to warm and is only going to continue; this is apparent when glaciers and sea ice are depleting as fast as they are. However, there is time to slow the warming. There is no need for the entire human race--or any other living organism on this planet--to suffer because of mistakes that could have been corrected. It is up to the people to change this. Governments

Deniers will state it has nothing to do with humans but in fact the sun has a eleven year cycle which increase to zero to hundreds across the whole sun. This does play a role in global warming because of the increase in carbon dioxide measured in parts per million, but the number of sunspots is not increasing over the past century. Carbon dioxide from greenhouse gases are outweighing the effects from the sunspot cycles that are occurring every eleven years. The major effect that the sunspot cycles causes is a change in weather patterns. Sunspot cycles can not dramatically change the temperature of the Earth while fossil fuels burning can(Goddard Institute for Space

There is a problem with who is supporting these scientists conducting their research. Much of the research is backed by oil tycoons and large corporations that are funding millions of dollars to make sure that global warming is not blamed on them. They use the same techniques that tobacco company’s use when they attempt to disprove the health effects of smoking tobacco. Charles and David Koch, owners of Koch Industries, have funded over $67 million over the past 17 years to deny global warming claims (Greenpeace.org). A large piece of that money has been funded in the past 10 years as more research supports the claim of a human caused global warming. Berkeley conducted a study on surface temperatures and was funded $150,000 for their first phase of their research by the Koch brothers. Richard Muller lead scientist on this study once supported the global warming skeptics that humans could not cause this fluctuation in temperature. Unfortunately, his first phase of his research “A New Estimate of the Average Earth Surface Land Temperature Spanning 1753 to 2011” disproved his theory stating that land temperature in the world has increased about one degree Celsius in the past 50 years not largely due to the role of greenhouse gas emissions cause by humans (Muller, 2). The Koch Foundation did not help fund the Berkeley research during their second phase of this project.