05 May 09 Global Warming and Climate Change: The Facts

By Kate

When you’re learning about something new, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the sheer amount of relevant information available. This informative article should help you focus on the central points.

Global warming is an incredibly complex subject and many important facts are not widely known. Global warming and cooling does happen naturally, but the problem is the rate at which it is happening. It doesn’t give species populations the time to adapt. Global warming sceptics consider that the weather models used to establish global warming and to forecast its impacts are distorted. According to the models, if calculations are made the last few decades must have been much worse as compared to actually happened to be.

Global warming will influence human lives negatively, death due to heat waves will occur, infectious disease like malaria will become common with the increasing temperature. Changes in climate not only affect our bodies but also harm our crops. Global warming is real. It is not the result of a natural climatic adjustment. Global warming refers to the Earth’s air and oceans gradually heating up to a point that disrupts balance, a problem that is continually getting worse. It sounds like a problem too massive for any one individual to take on, but it really isn’t.

Global warming has been labelled an issue for liberal Democrats, said Merritt. Since conservative evangelicals already distrust Democrats on issues like abortion, that distrust bleeds into global warming. Global warming is an issue that concerns everyone and ongoing research is being carried out to find what causes global warming. The fact is the earth is getting warmer, meteorologists have known this for quite some time now. Global warming aside, as a nation we have nothing to lose by rapidly reducing our consumption of fossil fuels. The short term economic gain caused by present use and extraction rates of oil and natural gas are not sustainable.

If you find yourself confused by what you’ve read to this point, don’t despair. Everything should be crystal clear by the time you finish.

Global warming denial is true because there are news reports of people who deny global warming. This is no different than saying that the Jews were responsible for 9/11 because there are people who say that Jews are responsible for 9/11.

Global warming, even most sceptics have concluded, is the real deal, and human activity has been causing it. If there was any consolation, it was that the glacial pace of nature would give us decades or even centuries to sort out the problem. Global warming has left its clearest fingerprint on heat waves. Since the record scorcher of 1998, the average annual temperatures in the United States in six of the past 10 years have been among the hottest 10 percent on record. Global warming is something that is going to happen very slowly (at least in human terms.) There will be no “Day after tomorrow”. It will have an initial effect in the developing world, but not for another generation.

Global warming affects birds and other wildlife in countless ways, and can even cause extinctions. Audubon is closely monitoring how it is changing wintering and breeding ranges for birds. Global warming is the government’s fault for adding an extra hour on to the day during daylight savings time. This extra hour means there will be an extra hour of sunlight every day for six months a year. Global warming, a gradual rise in the global temperature, is caused due to natural and man-made factors.

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