In March of 1992, Dr. Richard Sanford wrote an outspoken paper opposing the claims of the global warming hysteria of recent time. Sanford discusses how people accept global warming theories as scientific fact without questioning their validity. I can honestly say that I was one of these people who agreed with the media's interpretation of these theories. After reviewing the pro global warming material in the course text, Environmental Science, written by G. Tyler Miller, and reading several articles on the opposition of global warming, I find myself becoming not a hardcore skeptic, but someone that will no longer take information at face value without reviewing as many of the particulars as possible.…
The author, “Contoski, asserts that global warming is scientifically unproven and that the facts reveal that the earth periodically experiences changing climates” (Global Warming Is a Myth). Contoski “denies that carbon dioxide emissions have any noticeable impact on global temperatures claims that human-made emissions are insignificant when compared to carbon output of natural sources that have always been beyond human control.” (Global Warming is a Myth)…
It is fair to say that hockey has evolved over the years. Gear has changed and so have the players. The game has become faster and stronger and a lot more off ice training and hard work is necessary to go pro unlike it used to be in the 19th century.…
The vast amount of opposing views from qualified scientists on global warming can easily confuse any reader. The manipulation of data is a main culprit, which is largely to blame for the confusion. This tactic, carefully used by global warming skeptics, falsely makes information appear to prove that global warming does not exist. Fred Singer’s 10 year graph, which shows no rise in global temperatures is a perfect example. While the 10 years Singer has selected show no warming in temperature, when the graph is viewed in its entirety there is a substantial warming trend. This term is known as “going down the up escalator” (Upin) and is used as an attempt to prove global warming does not exist. This is very dangerous because while skeptic’s present…
Anthropogenic climate change is an establishment phenomenon. Within the scientific community, the question is no longer whether climate change will occur, but at what rate, with what effects, and what, if anything, we can do about it. The biggest culprit in climate change is an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide, which is generated primarily through burning fossils. Earth’s average temperature is based on daily measurements taken at several thousand land based meteorological stations around the world, as well as data from weather balloons, orbiting satellites, transoceanic ships, and hundreds of sea surface buoys with temperature sensors. Scientists around the world have researched global climate change for several decades. As the evidence has accumulated, the most qualified to address the issue have concluded that temperatures have increased over the past century, that it is extremely unlikely that natural causes can explain the warming, and the human produced greenhouse gases are the plausible explanation for the warming that has occurred.…
Every scientist will agree and anyone else who has any idea what climate change is. Through this, Pollan answers the question, “Why Bother?” but his true purpose, inspiring people to actually “Bother” fails. His ignorance of the lower class and humanity's subconscious Moral Balancing combined with his use of cheap scare tactics makes his arguments fall flat and inspires readers to roll their eyes and enjoy their plant destroying comforts while they can.…
Why challenge an observation that is backed up by heaps of quantitative observations since the mid 1900s and has imminent impact on our world today? Today, people in support of global cooling are either making a fool of themselves in order to garner attention or have been living under a rock for most of the 21st century. However, people concerned about global warming dismiss the claims concerning a present global cooling phenomenon too readily, almost like Broca's claim of the inferiority of women following his meticulous collection of data comparing the size of women's brains to men's brains. Stephen Gould's essay "Women's Brains" deconstructs the prevailing belief of women inferiority that was backed up by Broca's research in the 19th century in order to make the argument that nothing should be taken for granted during his time when evolutionary scientists were being challenged by dominant religious…
Sports are a very big part of everyday life for many people. There are advantages and disadvantages to all sports, more advantages in some than others. The game of Soccer has many more advantages over the game of Field Hockey, which undoubtedly makes it the better sport of the two. Soccer is a sport that consists of 90 minutes of hard play while field hockey is 70 minutes of stop and go due to the whistle being blown so often.…
Street hockey is a form of hockey play on surfaces like basketball courts, indoor, streets, and nettless tennis courts. The point of the game is to shoot the puck into the others teams net and score. Each team must have 6 players, 3 frontlines 2 defense and 1 goalie. Street hockey equipment is especially designed for street hockey. The stick is wooden with a plastic tip and a plastic puck or a ball that doesn’t bounce at all. Each teams has only 2 timeouts each lasting around 1 minute and the game is split into 3 15 minute periods. There is also a break in between each period lasting about 3-5 minutes.…
In regards to climate change, it is often believed that the “hockey stick” graph is the only indication of detriment humans have caused to the world. So if someone can disprove the data from the graph, it is believed that all of climate change can be invalidated. However, Michael Mann refutes this belief wholeheartedly; the graph is based on data he and his colleagues comprised. To him this mistake in the public’s opinion was created on purpose to easily disregard the idea of climate change being true by those who are financially involved in industries that rely on destroying the planet to succeed. Mann emphasizes that even if you want to completely revoke the “hockey stick” graph, there are “a number of independent lines of evidence” that cannot be disregarded such as the “Detection and Attribution Studies”(76). Since he believes that this is attack on him and his data, he…
False Claims about Climate Change One thing we face every day are the lies that are given about anything we have going on. But most importantly, based on this report, its about the lies we hear of climate change. Climate change is something that is currently happening without us knowing, it is global warming. ‘Global warming is a phenomenon in which weather patterns and temperatures are changing rapidly and unpredictably, and on a global scale.…
Gray, R. (2012, October). Climate Scientists Are Losing The Public Debate on Global Warming. The Telegraph. Retrieved from: www.telegraph.co.uk…
Sceptics have used various methods in their battle with real science. According to John Cook writer for Skeptical Science the most common methods used by global warming sceptics are conspiracy theories, fake experts, carry picking, impossible exportations of what research can deliver and misrepresentation and logical fallacies (Cook, 2010)…
r o v e otherwise. To complete the Warming Debate analogy, I’ll add that to date, there is no credible evidence to demonstrate that the climatological changes we’ve seen since the mid-1800’s are outside the bounds of natural variability inherent in the earth’s climate system.…
For the past couple of decades, researchers and scientists have gone head to head in attempting to figure out if global warming does exist. Some people argue against the point and some people may support it. The facts supporting human responsibility are there; however, some people do not tend to believe them, while others do. Professor Ian Pilmer, a geologist and professor of earth sciences, tries to convince people that nature is the main cause of global warming, and he uses his authority to create this false impression to force people into quick judgments. He also makes a hasty generalization in stating that “global warming and a high CO2 content bring prosperity and lengthen your life (Eggleton 171).” Pilmer thinks that just because the air people breath is made up of carbon dioxide and that it is good for one’s body, is a quick personal judgment. Llissa Ocko, on the other hand, who is a High Meadows Post-Doctoral Science Fellow at EDF gets straight to the point when she states that, “scientists are more confident than ever that humans are responsible (“How”).” Although many scientists are scholarly individuals, there exist so many different scientific viewpoints on the topic that it becomes difficult to know whom to believe.…