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Topic: Global Warming. Stance: 2 con. 1 pro Group Members: Kisha Patel, Erica King, Cody Wenner. Thesis: While people may think Global Warming is a important issue in the world, but it is actully a myth because its predicted by computers which arent 100% acurate on what the climate will be in the future, climate is always changing throughout the years, and while the earth is slightly heating up, it isnt as extreme as researchers like Al Gore portray it to be.

CONS: (kisha, erica)

Stossel, John. "The Global Warming Myth?." //ABC News// (2007): n. pag. Web. 24 May 2010. .

> The fundamentalist doom mongers also ignore scientists who say the effects of global warming may be benign. Harvard astrophysicist Sallie Baliunas said added CO2 in the atmosphere may actually benefit the world because more CO2 helps plants grow. Warmer winters would give farmers a longer harvest season, and might end the droughts in the Sahara Desert.
 * 1) The Earth is warming. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said the global average surface temperature increased about 0.6 degrees Celsius over the 20th century.
 * 2) Our climate has always undergone changes. It's presumptuous to think humans' impact matters so much in comparison to the frightening geologic history of the earth. And who is to say that last year's temperature is the perfect optimum? Warmer may be better! More people die in cold waves than heat waves.
 * 3) There are always storms and floods. there probally wont be much bigger disruptions in climate.
 * 4) The media, of course, like the exaggerated claims. Most are based on computer models that purport to predict future climates. But computer models are lousy at predicting climate because water vapor and cloud effects cause changes that computers fail to predict. In the mid-1970s, computer models told us we should prepare for global cooling.
 * 1) Twenty-five billion dollars in government funding has been spent since 1990 to research global warming. If scientists and researchers were coming out releasing reports that global warming has little to do with man, and most to do with just how the planet works, there wouldn't be as much money to study it."
 * 2) The fundamentalist greens imply if we just conserved energy, and switched from fossil fuels to wind and solar power (they rarely mention nuclear power -- the most practical alternative), we would live in a nonglobal-warming fairyland of happiness. But building solar panels burns energy, as does trucking them and installing them. Not to mention taking them down again to repair them.
 * 3) Solar energy also wont help temperature increases because EPCOT, a theme park with a solar energy ride, consumes about 395,000 kilowatt-hours per day. The Department of Energy says you'd need around a thousand acres of solar panels to generate that much electricity. EPCOT itself only sits on 300 acres, so you'd have to triple the size of the park just to operate it.
 * 4) Windmills are giant bird-killing Cuisinarts, and we'd have to build lots of them to produce significant energy.
 * 5) if the world is warming, it is much more reasonable to adjust to it, rather than try to stop it. If sea levels rise, we can build dykes and move back from the coasts., like Holland did.
 * 6) Farmers can plant different crops or move north. Russian farmers farmed northern Siberia for centuries. When the area became cold and desolate, the farmers moved south.
 * 7) let the science develop and adjust to it if it happens, rather than wreck life as we know it by trying to stop it.

Notes by: KP (kisha)

"Global-Warming Myth." //Washington Times// (2008): n. pag. Web. 24 May 2010. .

13. Al Gore and his minions continue to chant that "the science is settled" on global warming, but the only thing settled is that there has not been any since 1998. Critics of this view (rightfully) argue that 1998 was the warmest year in modern record, due to a huge El Nino event in the Pacific Ocean, and that it is unfair to start any analysis at a high (or a low) point in a longer history. But starting in 2001 or 1998 yields the same result: no warming. 14. natural variability in the Earth's oceans will "temporarily offset" global warming from carbon dioxide 15. Seventy percent of the Earth's surface is oceanic; hence, what happens there greatly influences global temperature. It is now known that both Atlantic and Pacific temperatures can get "stuck," for a decade or longer, in relatively warm or cool patterns. 16. Science no longer provides justification for any rush to pass drastic global warming legislation. The Climate Security Act, sponsored by Joe Lieberman and John Warner, would cut emissions of carbon dioxide — the main "global warming" gas — by 66 percent over the next 42 years. With expected population growth, this means about a 90 percent drop in emissions per capita, to 19th-century levels. 17. Pressure to pass impossible-to-achieve legislation, like Lieberman-Warner, or grandstanding political stunts, like calling polar bears an "endangered species" even when they are at near record-high population levels, are based upon projections of rapid and persistent global warming. 18. there are dozens of computer-driven projections for 21st-century warming. Not one of them projects that the earth's natural climate variability will shut down global warming from carbon dioxide for two decades. Yet, that is just what has happened. 19. then there is no verifiable science behind the current legislative hysteria. 20. What is "settled" is the politics, not the science.

Notes by: KP (kisha)

Admin."Where only the truth heats up." //Global Warming Hoax//. John Herron, 27 January 2010. Web. 24 May 2010. .

21. Global warming was ranked last on the list of concerns 22. It was even ranked below “Trade Policy” and “Moral Decline” 23. In a research that was dated January 25, 2010, only 28% of people believed that global warming should be a budget priority which is 10% lower than it was 4 years ago

Notes by: KP (kisha)

"Short Sharp Science: 50 Reasons Why Global Warming Isn't Natural." Science News and Science Jobs from New Scientist - New Scientist. Web. 24 May 2010. < @http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2009/12/50-reasons-why-global-warming.html >.

24.There is "no real scientific proof" that the current warming is caused by the rise of greenhouse gases from man's activity. ]25.Man-made carbon dioxide emissions throughout human history constitute less than 0.00022 per cent of the total naturally emitted from the mantle of the Earth during geological history. 26.Warmer periods of the Earth's history came around 800 years before rises in CO2 levels. 27.In the past 3 million years changing levels of sunshine triggered and ended the ice ages. Carbon dioxide was a feedback that increased warming, rather than the initial cause. In the more distant past, several warming episodes were directly triggered by CO2 28.After world war 2, there was a huge surge in recorded CO2 emissions but global temperatures fell for four decades after 1940. 29. temperatures fell during the 1940s and then remained roughly level until the late 1970s. The fall was partly due to high levels of pollutants such as sulphur dioxide counteracting the warming effect. 30.Throughout the Earth's history, temperatures have often been warmer than now and CO2 levels have often been higher - more than 10 times as high. 31. higher CO2 means higher temperatures, taking into account the fact that the sun was cooler in the past. The crucial point is that civilisation is adapted to 20th century temperatures. // 32.Significant changes in climate have continually occurred throughout geologic time. // // 33.The 0.7 °C increase in the average global temperature over the past hundred years is entirely consistent with well-established, long-term, natural climate trends. // // 34.Leaked e-mails from British climate scientists - in a scandal known as "climategate" - suggest that, that has been manipulated to exaggerate global warming // // 35.A large body of scientific research suggests that the sun is responsible for the greater share of climate change during the past hundred years // // 36.Philip Stott, emeritus professor of biogeography at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London says climate change is too complicated to be caused by just one factor, whether CO2 or clouds. // // 37.A Harvard University astrophysicist and geophysicist, Willie Soon, said he is "embarrassed and puzzled" by the shallow science in papers that support the proposition that the Earth faces a climate crisis caused by global warming. // // 38.The science of what determines the Earth's temperature is in fact far from settled or understood. // 39.There are still lots of details to fill in but the big picture is increasingly clear. The uncertainties that do exist swing both ways: there could be more warming than predicted. // 40.Despite activist concerns over CO2 levels, CO2 is a minor greenhouse gas, unlike water vapour, which is tied to climate concerns, and which we can't even pretend to control. // 41.Water vapour is a feedback, not a cause of warming. The amount of water in the atmosphere depends on temperature; any excess rains out within days. // 42.It is claimed the average global temperature increased at a dangerously fast rate in the 20th century but the recent rate of average global temperature rise has been between 1 and 2 °C per century - within natural rates // 43.Periods of cooling are still to be expected // 44.The world "warmed" by 0.07 +/- 0.07 °C from 1999 to 2008, not the 0.20 °C expected by the IPCC. //

Notes: EK

"Myths and Falsehoods about Global Warming." // Media Matters for America //. Web. 24 May 2010. @http://mediamatters.org/research/200703230007.

45.Reviving a familiar smear during the 2000 presidential campaign of Gore as an "exaggerator," media figures have attacked Gore and the film by accusing him of exaggerating scientific assessments and predictions about rising sea levels, the possible links between global warming and hurricanes, and arctic melting. 46.The attacks take the form of false comparisons and misrepresentations of his claim

Notes: EK

"A REAL Inconvenient Truth - 100 Reasons Why Global Warming Is NOT Man-Made." Virginia Right! Web. 24 May 2010. @http://www.varight.com/news/a-real-inconvenient-truth-100-reasons-why-global-warming-is-not-man-made/.

47.There is “no real scientific proof” that the current warming is caused by the rise of greenhouse gases from man’s activity. 48. Warmer periods of the Earth’s history came around 800 years before rises in CO2 levels. 49.Politicians and activiists claim rising sea levels are a direct cause of global warming but sea levels rates have been increasing steadily since the last ice age 10,000 ago 50.The science of what determines the earth’s temperature is in fact far from settled or understood. 51.There is strong evidence from solar studies which suggests that the Earth’s current temperature stasis will be followed by climatic cooling over the next few decades 52.It is myth that receding glaciers are proof of global warming as glaciers have been receding and growing cyclically for many centuries 53.Research goes strongly against claims that CO2-induced global warming would cause catastrophic disintegration of the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets. 54.Accurate satellite, balloon and mountain top observations made over the last three decades have not shown any significant change in the long term rate of increase in global temperatures 55.Today’s CO2 concentration of around 385 ppm is very low compared to most of the earth’s history – we actually live in a carbon-deficient atmosphere 56.It is a myth that computer models verify that CO2 increases will cause significant global warming because computer models can be made to “verify” anything 57.Rising CO2 levels in the atmosphere can be shown not only to have a negligible effect on the Earth’s many ecosystems, but in some cases to be a positive help to many organisms 58.Researchers who compare and contrast climate change impact on civilizations found warm periods are beneficial to mankind and cold periods harmful 59.It is claimed that the average global temperature was relatively unchanging in pre-industrial times but sky-rocketed since 1900, and will increase by several degrees more over the next 100 years according to Penn State University researcher Michael Mann. There is no convincing empirical evidence that past climate was unchanging, nor that 20th century changes in average global temperature were unusual or unnatural. 60.The “Climate-gate” scandal revealed that a scientific team had emailed one another about using a “trick” for the sake of concealing a “decline” in temperatures when looking at the history of the Earth’s temperature. 61.The “Climate-gate” scandal revealed that a scientific team had emailed one another about using a “trick” for the sake of concealing a “decline” in temperatures when looking at the history of the Earth’s temperature. 62. Since the cause of global warming is mostly natural, then there is in actual fact very little we can do about it. (We are still not able to control the sun). 63. The “Climate-gate” scandal revealed that a scientific team had tampered with their own data so as to conceal inconsistencies and errors. 64.The “Climate-gate” scandal revealed that a scientific team had campaigned for the removal of a learned journal’s editor, solely because he did not share their willingness to debase science for political purposes.

Notes: EK

Clemenzi, Robert. "Global Warming - The Facts." n. pag. Web. 25 May 2010. .

65. First chicken little said the sky is falling, now its humans are destroying the earth 66. "human generated Global Warming" is more of a religious belief than science. 67.Most people define "Global Warming" as "rich Americans destroying the planet by burning gasoline" 68.Most Global Warming reports make it sound like most of the atmosphere is made of carbon dioxide. In fact, it is only 0.03% (and seasonally variable). Actually, water vapor (another Green House gas) forms a larger percentage (0 to 4%) and completely swamps the effect of CO2 (except when it is very cold and/or very dry). 69.Most Global Warming reports claim that the world's glaciers are shrinking - so what, some glaciers are currently expanding. Actually, the reason that glaciers grow or shrink is not well understood and facts related to this should NOT be used to argue either side of Global Warming 70. if all the alpine glaciers that are used in these reports completely disappeared, there would be little or no sea level change - there really is not that much ice involved 71.any report that uses these arguments is suspect 72.If it all melts, the effect will be negligible - 23 feet - compared to the melting of the Antarctic ice (more than 200 feet) 73.When the Vikings settled there it was much warmer than it is today 74. Researchers have to account not only for the loss of ice around the edges of the sheet, but also for the buildup of ice in Greenland's interior. 75. Mars is currently undergoing global warming - try and blame that on humans 76. Venus is hot because it has more atmosphere than Earth 77. Increased CO2 makes plants grow faster 78.Many people prefer Florida to New England or Canada
 * "Most scientist agree" - but they never reference a study to prove that
 * "It is well known that" - all religious beliefs are well known, so what
 * The temperature data covers a period of less than 1,000 years
 * "Even if it can not be proved, we must ..." - this is the boogie man card

Notes by: KP (kisha)

An Inconvient Truth

79. Pictures only have years not dates 80. South Africa has reached 43°F and 125.1 °F 81. This trend is seen in the other pictures such as Nepal, India where temps vary differently 82. The before pictures could easily been taken in january while the after is late july.

Notes by: KP (kisha)

"Scientists Make the Anti-Global Warming Case." //The Heritage Foundation//. N.p., December 11th, 2008. Web. 25 May 2010. .

83. Ivar Giaever,a Nobel Laureate in Physics said “If we allow this to happen, it would be deeply and unforgivably immoral. It would condemn coming generations to a catastrophically diminished future.” 84. cutting greenhouse gas emissions would be extremely costly and would insignificantly affect global temperatures are pretty convincing reasons, too. 85. The Congressional Budget Office reports that a mere 15 percent cut in emissions would increase energy costs by $1,300. And Obama wants to cut emissions by 80 percent! 86. 2008 has turned out to be a year of global cooling

Notes by: KP (kisha)

"Ten Myths Of Global Warming." //global warming hysteria//. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 May 2010. .

87.Accurate satellite, balloon and mountain top observations made over the last three decades have not shown any significant change in the long term rate of increase in global temperatures. 88. ground station readings do show a mild warming of 0.6 to 0.8Cover the last 100 years, which is well within the natural variations recorded in the last millennium. 89. The ground station network suffers from an uneven distribution across the globe; the stations are preferentially located in growing urban and industrial areas ("heat islands"), which show substantially higher readings than adjacent rural areas ("land use effects"). 90. Significant changes in climate have continually occurred throughout geologic time. 91. 1000 to1200 AD (Medieval Warm Period) was followed by a "Little Ice Age" 92. Since the end of the 17th Century the "average global temperature" has been rising at the low steady rate mentioned above; although from 1940 – 1970 temperatures actually dropped, leading to a Global Cooling scare. 93. Carbon dioxide levels have changed for various reasons, human and otherwise, just as they have throughout geologic time. 94. Since the beginning of the industrial revolution, the CO2 content of the atmosphere has increased. 95. there is no proof that CO2 is the main driver of global warming. 96. As measured in ice cores dated over many thousands of years, CO2 levels move up and down AFTER the temperature has done so, and thus are the RESULT OF, NOT THE CAUSE of warming. 97. as temperatures move up and down naturally and cyclically through solar radiation, orbital and galactic influences, the warming surface layers of the earth's oceans expel more CO2 as a result. 98. Greenhouse gases form about 3 % of the atmosphere by volume. 99. the remainder being gases like CO2, CH4, Ozone and N2O, of which carbon dioxide is the largest amount. 100. Computer models can be made to "verify" anything by changing some of the 5 million input parameters or any of a multitude of negative and positive feedbacks in the program used.. They do not "prove" anything. 101. computer models predicting global warming are incapable of properly including the effects of the sun, cosmic rays and the clouds. 102. Nitrogen forms 80% of our atmosphere. We could not live in 100% nitrogen either. Carbon dioxide is no more a pollutant than nitrogen is. CO2 is essential to life on earth. 103. Glaciers have been receding and growing for hundreds of years. 104. Ice shelves have been breaking off for centuries. 105. Scientist know about AT THE LEAST 33 periods of glaciers growing and then retreating 106. glacier's health is dependent as much on precipitation as on temperature. 107. The western Arctic may be getting somewhat warmer, due to unrelated cyclic events in the Pacific Ocean 108. the Eastern Arctic and Greenland are getting colder. 109. The small Palmer Peninsula of Antarctica is getting warmer, while the main Antarctic continent is actually cooling. 110. Sea level monitoring in the Pacific (Tuvalu) and Indian Oceans (Maldives) has shown no sign of any sea level rise.

Notes by: KP (kisha)

PROS:(cody)

"Al Gore's new thinking on the climate crisis." //Ted.com//. Web. 24 May 2010. . 1. Have to solve democracy problem before you solve the global warming problem

Notes by CW

"The evidence." //Climate Crisis//. Web. 24 May 2010. . 2. ice caps are melting away. The mountain is almost completely rid of snow 3. Patagonia, Argentina has its snow melting away as well 4. Glaciers that we get our water from are melting greatly 5. At least 279 species of plants and animals are adapting to global warming and moving closer to the poles 6. Droughts and wildfires will occur more frequently 7. The Arctic Ocean could be ice free by 2050 8. More than a million could go extinct by 2050 because of global warming

Notes by: CW

Is Global Warming Real?." //National Geographic// n. pag. Web. 25 May 2010. .

9.Temperatures have been rising over the years 10.The average temperature for the earth has increased 1 degree Fahrenheit in the past century 11.It has risen around twice that in Arctic parts 12.The temperatures can be determined through looking at trees’ rings 13.Temperatures can also be determined by checking the sediment at the bottom of lakes and oceans 14.To look at the atmosphere of the earth in past years, scientists drill holes in polar ice sheets 15.By drilling holes in the polar ice sheets, scientist have been able to find out that greenhouse gases are higher than they have been for hundreds of thousands of years

Notes by: CW

"What is global warming?." //Ecologic//. N.p., 2010. Web. 25 May 2010. .

16.The climate is changing as a result of global warming 17.Global warming cuts down on the availability of clean water and if people can grow enough food 18.It also increases the spread of infectious diseases and increases major weather occurrences 19.Scientists have been predicting the climate and weather for further years and the temperature is steadily increasing 20.The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have said global warming is real because of the increase in global average air, increase in ocean temperatures, and the melting of snow and ice which causes rising in global sea level 21.The IPCC states that the increase in temperature is caused by manmade greenhouse gases 22.Greenhouse gases are being released by humans doing activities which changes the earth’s climate 23. Carbon dioxide levels are higher than they have been in 800,000 years 24.Since the mid 1800’s, the concentration of carbon dioxide has increased very greatly by about 150 parts per million 25.The increase of carbon dioxide are because of human’s use of natural resources since the Industrial Revolution 26.The Arctic ice cap is decreasing in size by 9% each year 27.In the past 2 decades, there have been 18 of the warmest years on record “The number of category 4 and 5 hurricanes has doubled and extremely dry land area has doubled” 28.The rise in sea level, which is the first time this has occurred since the last ice age 2000 years ago, will cripple coastal areas and communities 29.Great weather and climate changes will affect agriculture 30.These changes will also destroy infrastructure and spread diseases to new regions 31.Dry areas are getting dryer and wet areas are getting wetter 32.Storms, floods, droughts, and heat waves are occurring more often and are stronger because of global warming 33. Climate changes affect health as well as the environment 34.Climate changes the amount of food, water, and diseases 35.The poorer countries are going to be affected the greatest because they don’t have the money to pay for the resources they need to protect themselves from the great climate change 36.Global warming will affect animal habitats and animals in general “Current warming forces ecosystems to move closer to the poles or higher up in altitude”, which affects the animals’ habitats because of their position 37.A global temperature increase of 2 degrees will put 30 percent of the world's species at risk of extinction. 38.The number one cause of greenhouse gases are burning of coal, natural gas, and oil 39.Before humans freed carbon in fossil fuels and vegetation, there was a “balance of CO2 between the atmosphere, the biosphere, and the oceans” 40.If we switch our energy to renewable sources or cut down on energy consumption, carbon emissions can be decreased by a great number and you will save money 41.“20 percent of carbon dioxide emissions come from deforestation” 42.75% of carbon dioxide emissions come from burning fossil fuels 43.33% of carbon dioxide emissions come from transportation 44.U.S.- one-twentieth of world’s population, U.S. population- one-fifth of the people who release greenhouse gases 45.“A rise in sea level of 16 inches could put up 125 million people at risk for flooding” 46.One third of all carbon dioxide released by human activity since 1850 is from the United States 47.“ Coal burning power plants in the US release 2.5 billion tons of CO2 per year,

Notes by: CW

"Take Action!." //stopglobalwarming.org//. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 May 2010. .

48.Some ways to stop global warming are 49.Use fluorescent bulbs 50.Use recycled paper 51.Move up your thermostat 2 degrees in the summer and down 2 degrees in the winter 52.Check your air filter 53.Only run your dishwasher with a full load 54.Keep your water heater temperature no higher than 120 degrees Fahrenheit and insulate it 55.Clean or replace dirty air conditioner filters 56.Get a low-flow showerhead and take quicker showers 57.Buy products that are low in packaging 58.Buy a hybrid car, fuel efficient car, carpool if possible, and don’t idle in your car 59.Plant trees 60.Replace old appliances 61.Use a push mower instead of a riding mower 62.Unplug electronics that you aren’t using 63.Insulate your home 64.Air dry your clothes 65.Buy organic food 66.Use cloth bags at the market or other places instead of plastic or paper bags 67.Don’t eat an overwhelming amount of meat. Veggie diets produces a lot less greenhouse gasses than meat diets 68.Use reusable water bottles and other reusable items instead of using all that plastic 69.Doing all of this will decrease carbon dioxide emissions, use less plastic, and decrease global warming automobiles release 1.5 billion tons” 70.Americans release 20 tons of CO2 per person per year “The closest earth has come to the current CO2 concentration during the past 400 millennia was 320,000 years ago, when the closest relatives to modern humans were the early Neanderthals, and even then CO2 was only 300 ppm.”

Notes by: CW