25
Jan

The Global Warming debate

Global warming is the buzzword that is echoed around the world. This topic is never free from its share of debates, discussions and controversies. Until some years ago you could come across environmentalists who pleaded you to join them in fight against Global warming.  But today you may find environmentalists who will ask you to ignore the very concept of Global warming and to focus on more important things. So its largely your decision whether you should stand by the topic or concentrate on more important topics.

Most of the time Global warming debate steers towards the direction that “Global warming is not real.” But still the people who go against the existence of Global Warming don’t deny that temperature of earth, temperature of the water and melting of the ice had certainly occurred but the reason for global warming cannot be made to rest on human shoulders. Changes are inherent part of the nature. Even if there is no release of carbon dioxide by human activities temperatures will change. The controversial Global warming skeptic Bjorn Lomborg however confirms the existence of some global warming facts but he adopts little bit tricky track to follow the issue when he says “Global warming is real and caused by Carbon dioxide. The trouble is that the climate models show we can do very little about the warming”. Some skeptics have further made the issue very confusing which generates an impression amongst the common man that “Global warming is not real.” Their viewpoints are:

25
Jan

Why I'm Skeptical About Global Warming (and Why You Should Be Too!)

I live in a wonderful suburban community on Long Island. My three children attend the excellent public schools in our district. As the two oldest children have made their way through middle school, though, I’ve been bothered by the rather flimsy instruction they’ve received on the subject of “global warming.” Despite widespread divergence among scientists and reports of questionable scholarship in landmark global warming studies, my children (and, presumably, their classmates and millions of other young students) have been taught a standard, one-sided view of “global warming.” Both my 14 year-old daughter and 11 year-old son have been shown Al Gore’s movie An Inconvenient Truth in sixth grade, but have been given nothing to suggest that some of the information in the movie is either controversial or misleading. So I’ve decided to put together this bullet point compendium of information discussing the current status of the “global warming” debate.

23
Jan

Local Climate Change and its Possible Effects

Changes relating to the climate are a natural occurrence and have been taking place since the earth was created, roughly 4.6 billion years ago. For example, The British Isles have experienced an abundant amount of alterations in the climate since they were created, over half a billion years ago. What used to be the British Isles was once covered in rainforest, and much of the climate was tropical in nature. At which point, oil and coal that we use for electricity was created. Soon, it will be vital to take a look at some of the most recent energy smart solutions available today.

Pangaea was being formed, and 260 million years prior, The British Isles had moved into the middle of the continent, and it tuned into a desert. The conditions had drastically become altered, and the desert made the transformation once again to a tropical existence. At which point, the dinosaurs were becoming extinct. The earth began to get frigid, known appropriately as the Ice Age. 15,000 years ago was the latest Ice Age, but Britain has been warming up steadily from that point. Many natural climate changes take place in what appear to be tiny increments, which allows for adaptation to take place among animals and plants. Unfortunately, this incremental process of change is getting faster, so it is vital that each one of us learn the ways in which we can contribute to slowing down global warming and lessening its effects.