The Definition of Global Warming

Hello friends and thanks for reading. My article today is concerning the definition of global warming. Since it is such a hot topic in today’s media, it’s important to know the facts behind this idea that the earth is constantly getting warmer. Global warming is not a 20th century phenomenon. It has, in fact, occurred in the past more than once, along with periods of extreme cold known as the ice ages. With so much written and reported about global warming, sometimes it's difficult to detect which is fact and which is just part of scientific scare tactics.

Global warming is basically the increase of the earth’s average temperature and its projected continuation in the coming years. The unprecedented super-accelerated rate of global warming happening today is supposedly due to the amount of greenhouse gases being spewed into the atmosphere.

The increase in global temperature could cause many side effects including sea level rise and drastic changes to the pattern of precipitation resulting in floods and drought. As the Earth's average temperature rises, effects in its landmasses and sea water level become apparent. Polar ice caps melt along with glaciers, contributing to higher and warmer sea levels. By the end of the century, it is estimated that sea levels can increase from 4 inches to a high of about 40 inches if global warming continues unabated.

Currently, there in an ongoing political debate on what action, if any, should be taken to help lower the chance of global warming. How these measures will fare and contribute to the long-term maintenance of our planet, though, remains to be seen.

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» left by Ben Jones ^(6,905)
Ben Jones (2 years 112 days ago.)

Steve this is certainly a "hot" topic, if you'll pardon the pun, and it's good to see articles like this bringing it out for dicussion. However you say "could cause many side effects" but in actual fact it is just that, fact. The water levels are already beginning to rise, weather patterns are changing, storms are becoming more severe, drought is spreading at an incedible rate especially in places like Australia which is seeing many of the leading and "tell-tale" signs of what is to come for the rest of the world.

Yes global warming does occur naturally and like ice-ages repeats cyclicly in patterns. However what we are seeing now is man-made, very much ahead of schedule, will be much more severe and the effects will be well and truly seen within our lifetime instead of gradually over hundreds of years.

Many people are confused about global warming because of so-called scientific debate and disagreement on the subject. In actual fact there is no disagreement; the scientific communiity is united and screaming out for somebody to listen. The few commissioned research papers and reports that decried global warming were all funded by companies like Exxon who had an incredibly vested interest in ensuring that there was no action taken and wanted to "muddy the waters". They were succesful, still there are people that think global warming is not a threat, incredible!


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» left by Mischief (1 year 204 days ago.)

from what i can tell, there is much disagreement and the scientific community is not united and screaming. they are quite divided and screaming at each other. so maybe you should research it more there ben jones
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