Global Threat or No Threat

Since late 1800 scientists have studied the phenomenon of Global Warming and majority of them had concluded that human activities are responsible for most of the warming. Human activities contribute to global warming by enhancing earth’s natural greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect warms the earth surface through the complex process involving sunlight, gases and particles in the atmosphere. Gases that trap heat in the atmosphere are known as greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and fluorinated gases. There are few scientists who argue that the increase in the greenhouse gases had not made a measurable difference in the climate. Therefore the claim that human activities are causing the global climatic to warm significantly is irrational. However, scientists would like to see a clear mirror image of the global warming which threatens our environment; if you are uncertain about the remarks made by them. I would like to show you both sides of the mirror.

Global warming is rise in the temperature of earth’s surface because of the greenhouse gases that get trapped in the atmosphere. This is like on a very hot day heat gets trapped inside the car. The increase in temperature of the climate is due to increase of human activities by burning of the fossil fuels; the serious environmental threat as described by Ross Gelbspan, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of The Heat Is On: The Climate Crisis. Opposing his view that the human activities are causing the global climate to warm is not the serious environmental threat by S. Fred Singer, head of Science and Environmental Policy Project, and director of the U.S. Weather Satellite Service. His books include Hot Talk, Cold Science: Global Warming Unfini...

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These authors surely show us different sides of the mirror about global warming. Gelbspan supports to fight against the global warming, where slightest increases of greenhouse gases will have a profound effect on the global climate which can lead to catastrophic events in the future. He also calls for the solution by reducing the emission of harmful gases and turning to eco-friendly products. Whereas Singer contends that the slight rise of temperature is natural process and will not lead to significant changes in the climate. Instead these changes will benefit agricultural crops to grow. He also argues that not all the theory is fully understood and statistical data established by IPCC is unreliable. This is a never-ending debate and all we can hope that our planet thrives prosperously with all its natural resources.