Está en la página 1de 2

Are Humans Responsible for Global Warming?

The U.S. National Academy of Sciences has concluded that the scientific understanding
of climate change is now sufficiently clear to justify nations taking prompt action. This is some
recent argument about global warming.
1) CO2 is not coming from human being.
But in fact, the balance of natural process of CO 2 can maintain the concentration
of CO2 at a stable level for thousand years prior to the industrial revolution. But, in the
industrial revolution CO2 have been increasing because of the burning of fossil fuels that
cause the additional of CO2 accumulating in the atmosphere.
2) No one know why climate varies
Many of the major climatic changes can be traced to changes in the Earths orbit
around the Sun. Others can be linked to specific events that led to large changes in the
concentration of atmospheric greenhouse gases. Scientists have been able to
quantitatively attribute the major temperature fluctuations to changes in solar activity,
volcanic eruptions, and human-produced greenhouse gases and particulate pollution.
These natural processes cannot explain the current warming.
3) The Medieval Warm Period disproves global warming
The Medieval Warm Period (MWP) refers to a relatively warm
period lasting from about the 10th to the 14th century, more resent
analyses indicate that the MWP was not a global phenomenon. A
number of reconstructions of millennium-scale global temperatures
have indicated that the maximum globally averaged temperature
during the MWP was not as extreme as present-day temperatures and
that the warming was regional rather than global. More generally, it is
a logical fallacy to argue that because the climate has changed in the
past due to natural causes, the current warming trend must also be
due to natural causes.
4) A new ice age disprove global warming
The Earths climate for the past 2 million years has been
characterized by ice ages lasting close to 100,000 years, punctuated
by relatively short (10,000- to 30,000-year) warm periods or
interglacials. The Earth entered the present interglacial about 10,000
years ago and all things being equal. But, it will not occur for
thousands years. As early as the 19th century, scientists recognized that
greenhouse gases warm the planet. And that increases CO 2 in the
atmosphere and lead global warming on time scales of decades to
centuriesmuch shorter than the fluctuations related to ice ages and
interglacials.
5) Scientists cannot prove current warming is not natural
Thermodynamics tells us that the warming of the Earths lower
atmosphere must arise from one or more processes that supply excess
heat to the lower atmosphere. Satellite data reveal that the Earths
reflectivity increased (causing cooling instead of warming) in the 60s,
70s, and early 80s and has decreased modestly since. The ocean is
the only viable reservoir of internal heat that could have caused the
atmosphere to warm on decadal time-scales. Observations show that
the heat content of the ocean has increased instead of decreased over
the past few decades. The amount of heat stored in the ocean over
recent years matches the amount of heat that models predict should
be trapped on Earth due to the increase in greenhouse gases.

También podría gustarte