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Evidence against Global Warming Taking Place
Natural scientists have termed global warming as conceivably the greatest environmental
risk that is facing the world in the 21st century. This assertion has predominantly been attributed
to the many justifications which have been given to prove that the earths temperatures are
gradually rising. However, an equal number of natural scientists have disputed this contention.
They claim that global warming is not taking place, and, in fact what the earth is currently
experience is a periodic characterization of the earths behavior which has been occurring since
the beginning of time.
This paper seeks to explain what global warming. It further seeks to present evidence that
global warming is not taking place and therefore should not be a concern in the 21
st
century. To
achieve this, it will examine the evidence that has been put forward towards proving that global
warming is not taking place.
Global warming has been defined as the gradual rise in the earth temperature. It is
considered as being a special scenario of global change. It results from the continuous addition of
greenhouse effect gases to the environment due to human industry and other activities, such as
deforestation. Global warming has been assessed primarily by looking at global annual average
temperatures as a function of time.
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Several scholars have disputed the widely held thought that global warming is taking
place. In pursuit of this, they have given a mireau of evidence to support their claim. Some of the
reason they have given in support of their position include;

1 Levy, Salomon . Two-Phase Flow in Complex Systems. illustrated. New York: John Wiley & Sons,
1999.

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First, there has not been any global warming since 2007. According to Farrar
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, statistics
from the climate research unit
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approximate that the earths temperature has been constant for the
past seventeen years. Historically, the earths temperatures have gone up and down in a natural
cycle, so the current global warming should be considered to be part of a natural process.
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Episodes of periodic rise and fall in the earths temperature have always characterized the
changes in the earths temperature. For example, during the period 1940-1975 the planet cooled,
while in the proceeding 22 years there was a constant rise in temperature, followed by a 17 years
relative hiatus that is being experienced now.
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Thus, it becomes a misconstruction to suppose
that global warming is taking place when there actually is no rise in the earths temperature.
Secondly, there is no scientific consensus that global warming is occurring and caused by
man.
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Many scientific theories that were previously widely believed to be true have been
rebuffed and made irrelevant by new evidence. Additionally, over 31,000 scientists have signed
on to a petition saying humans are not responsible for causing global warming. Moreover, many
modern mainstream scientists do not agree that global warming is happening.
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Thirdly, since 2012, the artic ice has increased by 50 percent.
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The arctic has for many
years been used as a basis to prove that global warming is taking place. Previous researches had

2 Farrar, Amy . Global Warming. New York: ABDO, 2010.
3McKibben, Bill . The Global Warming Reader. OR Books, 2011.
4 Farrar, Global Warming, 9-10.
5 Maslin, Mark . Global Warming: Causes, Effects, and the Future. illustrated. MBI Publishing
Company, 2007.
6McKibben, The Global Warming Reader, 302-304.
7Maslin, Global Warming: Causes, Effects, and the Future, 62-69.
8Houghton, John Theodore . Global Warming: The Complete Briefing. Cambridge University Press,
2004.
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forecasted that the arctic ice would melt completely by 2013.
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Contrary to this forecast the arctic
ice has increased.
Fourthly, according to Houghton
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many of the climate models that have been used to
give evidence that global warming is taking place have been proved to be wrong. Consequently,
their forecasted projections of what effect global warming will eventually have on earth are also
erroneous.
Fifth, most of the predictions about the impact of global warming have already been
proven wrong.
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The debate over global warming has been going on for a long period of time and
some of the predictions that were made about global warming have panned out in the real
world.
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In conclusion, the debate on the concern of global warming is a non warranted debate.
Global warming is not taking place for the reasons that; there has not been any increase in the
earths temperatures for the past 17 years, there has not been any scientific consensus that global
warming is taking place, and the arctic ice has increased by 50 percent since 2012. Moreover,
many of the climate models used to predict the effect of global warming have been wrong and
most of the predictions made about global warming have also been wrong. Thus it is conclusive
that global warming is not taking place and should not be considered as an environmental risk in
the 21
st
century.


9Levy, Salomon . Two-Phase Flow in Complex Systems. illustrated. New York: John Wiley & Sons,
1999.
10 Houghton, Global Warming: The Complete Briefing, 144-146.
11 Levy, Two-Phase Flow in Complex System, 99-102.
12 Hanel, Rachael . Climate Fever: Stopping Global Warming. Capstone, 2009.
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References
Farrar, Amy . Global Warming. New York: ABDO, 2010.
Hanel, Rachael . Climate Fever: Stopping Global Warming. Capstone, 2009.
Houghton, John Theodore . Global Warming: The Complete Briefing. Cambridge University
Press, 2004.
Levy, Salomon . Two-Phase Flow in Complex Systems. illustrated. New York: John Wiley &
Sons, 1999.
Maslin, Mark . Global Warming: Causes, Effects, and the Future. illustrated. MBI Publishing
Company, 2007.
McKibben, Bill . The Global Warming Reader. OR Books, 2011.