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Bob Chen
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Global Warming Facts, these are accepted to be true
• People who are for global warming argue that this is caused by
humans as there is no other way to explain the rapid increase of
temperature.
• People who are against global warming argue that this is natural as
there are other reasons than human interaction.
• However, the negating sides argue that the affirmative are only
giving doomsday reports in order to get more research funding. 2
The Argument for Global Warming,
Supported by Scientists, government, and international organizations
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1. Ever since the industrial revolution, the earth has been warming,
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this shows that the humans are making an difference
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N 2. The IPCC reports that global warming does exist and there is a
I consensus by scientists that it exits
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N 3. The chief cause of global warming is humans, all other natural
S causes are insignificant.
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This Graph show that the
temperature of the earth is
rising. It shows that since the
beginning of the industrial
revolution, the temperature has
been getting higher and higher.
Source:
Earth
Dec. 1995, pp. 24-34
Has Global Warming Begun?
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The Argument against Global Warming,
Supported by Scientists as they believe that global warming does not exist
F 2. About half of the people who prepared the IPCC report does not
A agree with it, which is not an consensus. Also it does not take
C in account that water is the major greenhouse gas.
T 3. Computer models are unreliable, 17 different models were
S given the same information and they came up with 17 different
answers
Source:
21st Century Science & Technology
Winter 1999-2000, pp. 64-75
The Global Warming Folly
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Summary of the debate and the conclusion
1. An increase of carbon dioxide would have to be drastic or there
would be little effect on the temperature as it only accounts for 1-5%
of the greenhouse effect
5. The fact that we are coming out of an ice age and that we haven't
completely bounced back yet can explain global warming by itself.
This would be easier if we needed to present it, there is only so much you can fit on a PowerPoint.
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