Quote Originally Posted by JaggedEdge
Yeah, you have made me so happy.

I'm sorry, was that not hard evidence? Or do you only look at evidence presented by certain people.

Also, most the of polar ice caps are getting thicker, only a small portion is melting. But by all means, I anxiously await your counter evidence...
Ice caps getting bigger, give me a break..... Why do you think all of sudden many nature shows are taking about polar bears having a hard time. Anyways parts of my paper i wrote my senior year of highschool.

Many people have considered global warming as a natural trend rather than manmade acceleration of the climate to unnatural temperatures. According to Dr. Crichton, "We are also in the midst of a natural warming trend that began about 1850, as we emerged from a 400 year cold spell known as the Little Ice Age" (Inhofe). Al Gore??s book, ??An Inconvenient Truth? sights that over the past 650,000 years, carbon dioxide has stayed below 300 parts per million. However, today carbon dioxide has risen to 385 parts per million due to emissions from humans around the globe. In addition, as carbon dioxide levels rise, the temperature follows suit as Al Gore states, ??when there is more carbon dioxide, the temperature gets warmer because it traps more of the sun's heat inside? (Gore). Although many people continue to believe that global warming is a natural trend, scientists have provided hard evidence confirming the fact that as carbon dioxide raises, so does the temperature, and thus, as carbon dioxide increase the temperature becomes more abnormal as well.

The biggest contributors to global warming are the greenhouse gases; as they thicken our Earth??s atmosphere, it warms our planet. The atmosphere is made from greenhouse gases, which captures some of the sun??s rays in the atmosphere and allows the Earth to have a habitable environment. However, today the Earth??s atmosphere is being thickened with toxic carbon dioxide as a direct result of the pollution from coal mines, power plants, cars, and the growing population of the world. As a consequence, the amount of carbon dioxide has surpassed the natural boundary of carbon dioxide from 300 parts per million to 385 parts per million of carbon dioxide in the Earth??s atmosphere (Gore). With higher concentrations of carbon dioxide in the Earth??s atmosphere, it becomes denser which leads to more of the sun??s rays being secured and detained in the air. As the Earth??s atmosphere becomes thickened by the amount of carbon dioxide in the air, the temperature raises parallel to the amount of carbon dioxide in the Earth??s environment. Carbon dioxide gas is the primary emission from the world and has a major impact on the Earth??s environment and human inhabitants.

Although carbon dioxide is the leading cause of global warming, the advanced countries are taking action to reduce the amount of abnormal and unregulated carbon dioxide introduced into the Earth??s air. Al Gore, the United States of America produces 5.60 tons of carbon emissions per person which is nearly double than any other country (Gore). However, many advanced countries are reducing the amount of carbon dioxide emissions as agreed upon in the Kyoto Treaty. The Kyoto Treaty aims to lessen the carbon dioxide emissions for advanced world countries as BBC says, ??The Kyoto Treaty commits industrialized nations to reducing emissions of greenhouse gases, principally Carbon Dioxide, by around 5.2% below their 1990 levels over the next decade? (BBC). As the politicians seem to be ignore the crises, our country is blinded to the movement across the world on global warming according to Al Gore, ??There are only two advanced nations in the world that have not ratified Kyoto, and we are one of them? (Gore). As more advanced countries become increasingly aware of the effect of carbon dioxide emissions, our nation should take the lead in helping to solve the problems that are caused by global warming.

Global warming is impacted by the Earth??s atmosphere; however, the oceans of the world are also having a major role in global warming process. The majority of the earth is covered by the oceans. The oceans absorb a large amount of the sun??s energy. Although the slight temperature increase is hardly noticeable, the effect on Greenland and South Antarctica can be disastrous. As the temperature of the oceans rise, the melting of ice on these land bases could cause a worldwide catastrophe. The melting of South Antarctica is merely taking place right in the center of the continent; many people thought it would refreeze. However, the melting ice is collecting as lakes under the ice and tunneling streams, called Moulins into the bedrock. The Moulin lubricates the ice and bedrock below making it possible for the ice to slide off into the ocean. Al Gore, if Greenland or South Antarctica were to break up and melt, or melted half their mass of the land-based ice, the world sea level would raise twenty feet and put many cities of over millions of people underwater (Gore). Warmer temperatures in the oceans and ice melting from global warming in the future could prove to be catastrophic to millions of people around the world.



You make me laugh if you really think the ice caps are getting bigger...

Time for COD5