Global Warming Fact or Fiction

Global Warming Fact or Fiction

Krista Kim

Rasmussen College

Author Note

This paper is being submitted on November 26th, 2017, for Aisling Kane’s Human Uses of the Environment Mid/Fall Quarter.

Global Warming Fact or Fiction

Global warming, also known as climate change is often used to refer to the observed rise in the average temperature of the climate system of the earth and the related effects (Gillis, 2015). In the past two decades, global warming has been a severe topic for several governments with the scientist being on both sides of the issue. A lot of information is published on the subject which makes it difficult for ordinary people to understand or know what is right or what is not true. An individual can hardly turn on the television, read newspapers or browse online without being confronted with the global warming idea. Therefore, many scientists have considered global warming as an imminent threat to the planet and the future existence of humankind.

According to US NRC (2008), global warming is a complex issue that cannot be ignored in the cultural and political climate today. Many scientists have also proven for many years that our way of life is causing the earth's greenhouse effect, that is, the process by which infrared radiations absorption and emission by gases in the atmosphere of the planet causes a warming effect on the lower surface and atmosphere. This is attributed to human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels, exhaust from vehicles, deforestation, calcination of limestone and gaseous emissions from factories among others. Scientists argue that the human way of life has resulted to an increase in the temperature of the air near the surface through emission of greenhouse gasses such as water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane as well as ozone. The effects of global warming have also been exhibited such as extreme weather which includes greater warming over land especially the high northern latitudes. Sea level has also risen in the past two decades following the melting of ice in the polar regions by the high temperatures.

New claims and counterclaims are brought up in the press with a series of regularities that renders global warming a friction as various phenomena cannot be explained. This leaves Christians quite uncertain whether to believe global warming is a fact or fiction as they get lost in the details. However, I firmly believe in the argument that global warming is real and the temperatures are rising from time to time as evidently explained by various scientists. Governments should, therefore, adopt strategies to handle this issue as it affects the planet and the existence of animals and humankind.

References

Gillis, J. (2015). Short answers to hard questions about climate change. The New York Times.

US NRC (2008). Climate Change: Evidence, Impacts and Choices. US National Research Council (US NRC).

Very nice, Krista

It looks like you just need a little polishing. When you are reviewing your work, pay close attention to Style and Sentence Structure errors.

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