Thursday, October 2, 2008

It's not the Heat, It's Human

I think it would be best to approach this blog by beginning with some background on the topic. Global warming refers to the the increase of the Earth's surface temperature and ocean temperature every year. Some people believe that while the temperature of the Earth naturally goes up, the activities of human beings has caused a dramatic increase in the Earths temperature. This is due mainly to the burning of fossil fuels which increase the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Upon first look it may seem that global warming is pretty scientific with no reason for opposition, but that is very wrong. From a scientific view point, there is not much data to support global warming. The scientific method shows that we must gather data to formulate and test natural events. This is not possible with global warming since we can not recreate the earth. I do believe that there is some validity to global warming, but that this time I think there is not enough evidence to really make global warming any more than someones opinion. Sure the temperature has changed,, but so what? The temperature has always changed and fluctuated over time. We can not assume that if Point A goes up then point B goes up that point A caused point B to go up. It is more complex than that. We must have some set of hard evidence to support global warming or else it basically just becomes another market where some scientist can doctor data to make it seem that humans have caused so much harm. Because lets face it, without any hard proof, global warming is only a way for companies to convince people to spend more money on things that will be more "green."

2 comments:

Tommy said...

Student,

Climate change is occuring, but, as you explained, the science supporting that theory is not totally sound. Also, you correctly show that the Earth's temperature has fluctuated over time, and carbon dioxide levels have fluctuated as well. These levels, though variate within a degree of natural variability, and current data suggests that carbon dioxide levels have risen far above that threshold. Does this data have no importance to global warming, or is this data still relatively undeveloped? Thanks.

Tommy said...

Edit: Here is the link for my information.
http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2005/1128ice.shtml