What is global warming?

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While some would call global warming a theory,

others would call it a proven set of facts. Opinions differ vehemently. Let us consider global
warming to be both a premise that the environment of the world as we know it is slowly, but very
surely increasing in overall air and water temperature, and a promise that if whatever is causing
this trend is not interrupted or challenged life on earth will dynamically be affected.

The prevailing counter opinion is that all that is presently perceived to be global warming is
simply the result of a normal climactic swing in the direction of increased
temperature. Many proponents of this global warming ideology have definitive social and
financial interests in these claims.

Global warming and climate change are aspects of our environment that cannot be easily or
quickly discounted. Many factions still strongly feel that the changes our Earth is seeing are the
result of a natural climatic adjustment. Regardless of one’s perspective the effects of global
warming are  a quantifiable set of environmental results that are in addition to any normal
changes in climate. That is why the effects of global warming have catastrophic potential. Global
warming may well be the straw that breaks the camel’s back. It could turn out to be the
difference between a category three hurricane and a category four. Global warming as caused by
greenhouse gas emissions can lead us to a definite imbalance of nature.

The premise of global warming as an issue of debate is that industrial growth coupled with non-
structured methods we as humans use to sustain ourselves has created a situation where our
planet is getting progressively hotter. We have seemingly negatively effected our environment
by a cycle of harmful processes that now seem to be feeding upon themselves to exponentially
increase the damage to our ecosystem.
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Causes of Global Warming

Let us start our examination of Global warming with a study of its causes. Global warming is an
overall state of existence that is the cumulative effect of hundreds of environmental factors. All
of these join together in both a linear and random model to show global warming as a chain of
events.

Most modern attention to the problem of global warming began with discussion of depletion of
the Earth’s Ozone layer. Ozone (O3) is a molecular form of Oxygen. The Ozone layer is a
relatively thin strata of these molecules set in the lower portion of the Earth’s stratosphere.
Depletion of the Earth’s Ozone layer has resulted in a large increase in Ultra Violet Radiation
reaching the surface of the earth. Does this increase in UV rays equate to global warming? Not
really. In fact most scientific opinion is that depletion of the Ozone layer results in cooling of
both the stratosphere and troposphere. So why mention depletion of the Ozone layer as regards to
global warming? Because it represents a needed balance between harmful radiation being
allowed to reach the earth’s surface and our desire to stem the rapid increase in our air and water
temperature. Remember, we are viewing global warming as a chain of events.

What is the most significant

cause of global warming?
The primary cause of global warming is Carbon Dioxide emissions. CO2 is being pumped into
our atmosphere at an insane pace; 8 billion tons of CO2 entered the air last year. Of course some
of this is due to natural activity such as volcanic eruptions and people breathing. But the Earth is
equipped to easily absorb those into the normal regenerative process. No, the beginning of global
warming was caused by fossil fuels being burned and emitting plenty of CO2.

Currently in the world 40% of all CO2 emissions are caused by power plants. These are burning
coal, natural gas and diesel fuel. Some power plants burn garbage. Some burn methane made
from garbage. And discounting those super green electrical generating plants designed to issue
negligible pollutants, all of our power plants let loose into the atmosphere CO2.
33% of all the CO2 sent forth is the product of cars and trucks. Internal combustion engines
burning fossil fuels…gasoline and diesel spew forth a retching amount of CO2.

3.5% of all CO2 emissions are released from aircraft traveling our friendly skies. Unfortunately,
jets and other aircraft deliver their payload of pollutants directly into the troposphere.

The numbers can be confusing

12% of all CO2 released into the atmosphere is related to buildings. This figure varies from one
source to the next. Some place the percentage of emissions from buildings as high as 33%. What
most of these figures do not address is the actual cause of the CO2 emissions. In newly
constructed buildings, production of materials used in building and energy used during
construction are sited as the cause of carbon dioxide emissions. In existing buildings the CO2
created by the energy upkeep of the building is the root of the emissions quotient. The general
comparison is that buildings consume energy in the way that cars burn fuel. But the pollutants
created in providing power for heating, air-conditioning, lights and other usage in buildings has
already been factored. Honestly this double billing accounting is more the product of auto
manufacturers looking to point the blame for global warming away from gas guzzling cars.

The point to remember is that 98% of all CO2 emissions are related to energy production and
80% of these emissions become greenhouse gases.

Continuing the chain…

Which now mentioned allows us to follow our chain of event’s leading to global warming into
the next most defined cause… Methane gas. Methane is released into the atmosphere from a
dozen major sources. These include natural and man made emissions. Natural release of Methane
is primarily from wetlands, (including agriculture) termites, the ocean, and hydrates. Non-
organic releases are based from, landfills, livestock, waste treatment, and biomass burning.
(More energy production). Almost all of this is offset by the Earth’s ability to absorb around
97% of the methane released into the air. But that remaining 3% is a serious problem. The
molecular structure of Methane makes it 20 times as powerful a Greenhouse gas than CO2. So
while there is a great deal less Methane to contend with than CO2, it is still the second largest
link in the global warming events chain.
Not every Greenhouse gas is as obvious a villain as Methane. The next most potent problem is
simple H2O water. How can water be a cause of global warming? Our atmosphere contains a set
parameter of water as vapor. This vapor absorbs and radiates heat as does every molecule in the
air. But when the lower atmosphere (troposphere) has excess water vapor that gaseous H2O is a
potent greenhouse gas.
Another of the more commonplace greenhouse gases is Nitrous Oxide. NO2 can make your car
go faster, or make you relax at the dentist. It has quite few beneficial uses. But as a greenhouse
gas all it manages to accomplish is to be one more ingredient in out atmospheric soup. Cars using
catalytic converters, fertilizer plants, manufacture of nylon, and nitric acid as well as being
produced naturally in our oceans and rain forests, produce Nitrous Oxide.
All of the above plus quite a few other greenhouse gases comprise the foundation of global
warming. As above and in all discussion of global warming they are cumulatively referred to as
greenhouse gases. To understand the importance of these as the start and endpoint of global
warming we must digress into a brief explanation of the greenhouse effect.
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Global warming as a chain of events

Once again remember we are attempting to define global warming as a chain of events. The first
several of these links is an over abundance of solar radiation absorbing gases and other particles
floating about in our atmosphere.

The next grouping of events concerns what happens when the small percentage of increased heat
on our planet’s surface and in our air begins to effect long standing conditions.
Currently the measured effect of global warming as caused by the greenhouse effect on the
planet overall is approximately a 1 degree Celsius increase over the last 50 years. This would
seem to mean nothing. One asks, “How could one degree more or less effect anyone or
anything.” In terms of that “anyone”, the effect of a one-degree difference in ambient
temperature will probably go unnoticed. Our bodies are designed to adjust to a huge range of
climatic conditions. No one of us will notice that today it is 71 degrees outside and fifty years
ago it would have been 70. The human body will adjust and adapt even if the average
temperature globally were to increase by ten degrees. Chances are we would set off a huge
oblivious migration to more temperate areas. But that little one-degree change manages to set out
of kilter an incredible array of environmental forces.

Permafrost
While that one-degree of heat made you take off a sweater, segments of the Earth known as
permafrost began a meltdown. Permafrost is a condition whereby sections of the Earth’s surface
have remained at a temperature below freezing (0 degrees Celsius) for at least two years.
Literally, it means permanently frozen soil. In actuality, most permafrost regions have been
frozen for thousands of years. A large portion of the Arctic is permafrost. During summer
months these areas seem to be thawed as they permit a two to twelve foot layer of soil to grow
vegetation. But beneath that summer season lays a still frozen core. These frozen strata of the
Earth lock away huge amounts of gaseous content with the highest concentrations of gases held
in check by permafrost being Carbon dioxide and Methane gas. That one-degree increase in
overall temperature is allowing millions of underground acres of permafrost to defrost and
release even more greenhouse gas.
Tundra
In a similar vein frozen areas know as Tundra are also experiencing a subtle warming. Tundra
describes the soil above permafrost that is frozen for most of the calendar year but thaws for
allowance of small amounts of vegetation growth. Areas of Tundra throughout the world serve as
sinks for absorption of massive amounts of Carbon. As these areas begin to exist for more
months of the year above freezing they both release their stores of Carbon and cease to function
as greenhouse gas depositories.
The extremist view is that within another half century global warming will simultaneously melt
the arctic tundra releasing billions of tons of harmful greenhouse gases and ignite the world’s
rainforests destroying our planet’s ability to create oxygen. Such a viewpoint is falsely alarming
and without basis. The real danger of global warming is sufficient without need to exaggerate.

Polar meltdown
The increase, albeit slight in overall temperature the planet is now in the midst of, is more than
sufficient to cause catastrophic effect. Take for example our next link in the chain of events
feeding the effect of global warming. That is the warming of our polar caps and oceans. An
increase in overall temperature for the troposphere allows that segment of the atmosphere to
absorb more water vapor. Much as we set a dew point for condensation of moisture on the
earth’s surface, the atmosphere has an evaporation point allowing a larger volume off gaseous
H2O to exist. A simple linear logic would allow that a 1 percent increase in overall water
temperature throughout the earth’s atmosphere might allow a corresponding 1% increase in
airborne vapor. In truth there is a non-linear curve to this dialectic, but the general principle
follows suit and allows for our explanation. A 1% increase in water vapor is a huge increase to
the overall amount of greenhouse emissions. The problem however is not caused by the increase
whether it is 1% or 1000th of one percent. The problem is that each release of an unchecked
amount of greenhouse gas precipitates a further release. So if we add excess water vapor to our
ecosystem it then further heats the atmosphere so as to allow even more water vapor to encroach.

Ocean Temperatures and Positive Feedback

Our oceans digest most of the carbon footprint needing to be absorbed into our ecosystem. But, if
we raise the temperature of the oceans by as little as 1/10th of one percent that ability to absorb
and neutralize excess CO2 is compromised.
Currently greenhouse gas emissions from production of energy and internal combustion engines
results in a 36% increase in carbon dioxide over that which the planets normal balance can
support. This results in a subtle increase in temperature that just happens to be enough to melt
some of the Earth’s permafrost, which then releases even more CO2. The CO2 then slightly
raises the Earth’s temperature resulting in an endlessly looping progression. This situation and
scenario is known as positive feedback and this is the real danger inherent as global warming.
We can follow our ever-expanding chain of events further to a point where man is more directly
affected.

Environmental causes
Gaseous emissions are the largest issue as a cause for global warming. But simple environmental issues
still manage to total together and create a factor that is in no way to be discounted as unimportant.

The greenhouse effect has caused our Polar Ice Caps to reduce in size by 20% since 1979. This has
resulted in more land and sea area being exposed to absorb heat from the sun and as our continual cycle
suggests create more excess heat, which in turn melts more polar ice.

Not all of global warming is the result of greenhouse gases and the ensuing greenhouse effect. As the
population of the earth has increased mankind has brought civilization to almost every corner of the
globe. Civilization includes buildings, highways, land cleared for agriculture, cities built where once
stood deserts. Almost everything that we build absorbs more heat than its natural predecessor.

For hundreds of years we have sheared the tops off of mountains and burned down millions of acres of
forest just to look for precious metals. We clear ten thousand year old growth areas just find hardwoods
for lumber. We are still clearing the Brazilian Rain Forests so cattle can be raised on the grassy plains we
create. And the semi-comical side of this is that we have simultaneously destroyed lush plant life that
would have through photosynthesis turned CO2 into oxygen, so as to grow cattle, which are raised in such
abundance that their flatulence (Methane) is a measurable greenhouse emission.

This is not to suggest that we tear down all of our houses to plant a forest of trees and carve up the
superhighways and replace them with lovely green meadows. What we do need is an awareness of our
situation. We need to realize that every move we make as a result of industrialization has a corresponding
consequence.
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Primary effects of global warming

The effects of global warming are in some ways less definable than the causes. It seems odd that
such huge manifestations of change such as rising sea levels, glacier retreat, and Arctic shrinkage
somehow manage to filter down so that when members of western civilization safely tucked
away in homes and apartments look at the effects they are so remote as to become invisible.
What we may well bear watching are the effects of the effects of global warming. These
secondary results are so non-linear as to be a random harvest of environmental and economic
dilemmas that, when fully formed and in place present a definitive short-term danger.

Still, let us once again follow a chain of events so as to be able to completely envision the scale
and scope of the problem.

Rising sea levels

Rising sea levels are an easily measurable effect of global warming. As Polar ice melts down the
water created obviously must go somewhere. Aside from that ice which joins inland fresh water
reservoirs, the vast majority of melted ice joins the pool of the oceans. Most people
misunderstand the effect of polar meltdown and consider that this addition to our oceans creates
the overall rise in sea levels. This is hardly the case. The rise in sea levels due to global warming
is primarily caused by thermal expansion. In short when you heat a liquid (such as sea water) it
expands. Sea levels are currently on a pace to rise at a rate of approximately 1 inch every ten
years. Such a small change seems as if it could never affect quality of life for people living in
such distant from the oceans locations as Denver, Colorado.

Yet this is precisely the scenario by which we are all affected. Obviously people living in low
laying areas such as coastal Florida and Louisiana will most directly be affected. A one hundred
year model that allows for the current progression of global warming factors would result in
millions of acres of land mass lost in these areas. Still we have set our viewpoint in the Rocky
Mountains not Holland or the eastern coast of England, both of which are teetering at or below
sea level.
Salt water intrusion
Our Denver citizen might enjoy bottled water from Zephyrhills, Florida or any of the hundreds of
fresh water springs gushing forth in the sunshine state. Salt-water intrusion as a result of rising
sea levels could easily destroy a huge percentage of the potable water available in this and other
coastal states. Agricultural products of low-lying areas around the world will face shortfalls.
Production of fruits and vegetables is dependent on a stable set of environmental conditions.
Ever hear of the Indian River? Well most of America’s grapefruit is grown there along the
Florida coast and should we follow the expected loss of coastline for all of the Southern US
which is projected at a possible 2 mile inward loss of coastline over the next 75 years. Both the
Indian River and Indian River Grapefruit will no longer exist. 50% of American produce is
grown in our low laying areas. A major effect of global warming is that agricultural production
will be decreased. Our planet will be unable to grow as much food.

Beach erosion
A major secondary effect of rising sea levels is massive beach erosion. Our Colorado vacationer
will find the endless stretches of sandy beaches he enjoys on his winter vacation have withered
away to a few hundred yards here and there. But a shortened tourist base is hardly a world
catastrophe…is it? Tourism pumps over 50 Billion dollars a year into Florida’s economy. North
Carolina and Louisiana earn 15 billion dollars each through tourism. In fact every US state and
every nation on Earth with mild climate and a sandy shore depends upon financial gain from
tourism to sustain its economy.

Lest we dwell only on financial impact consider that loss of coastal acreage will displace
thousands of species of animal and plant life.

Extreme weather
Perhaps the most commonly conceived notion as to the effects of global warming is that of
cataclysmic weather. In fervor to promote the cause, too often we see graphic depictions of
raging floods, category 12 hurricanes and dozens of tornadoes sweeping the landscape. These
same depictions seem to serve those who accept the threat of global warming and those who
reject the possibility. One agenda hopes to frighten the world into an austere program of self-
denial so as to instantly curb global warming causes. The other faction points out that currently
there are no typhoons sweeping across Kansas so therefore global warming is a but a myth. As
always when dealing with scientific anomalies the truth lies nicely hidden in between.

Category 4 and 5 hurricanes have risen in frequency from 20 to 35% over the last 30 years. Since
the dawn of the industrial revolution, frequency of hurricanes overall has risen by almost 40%
and the those hurricanes now making landfall deposit almost 10% more rainfall than their pre
1970 counterparts. As an effect of global warming hurricanes are stronger, wetter and more
numerous. Hurricane Fay from 2007 created massive flooding over a dozen states. This increase
in storm activity is directly related to a wider variance between warm and cold ocean waters.
Consider that the measurement of temperature rise in ocean waters is based on an overall
average. Storms are created by the extremes that create that average.
Global warming produces as byproducts, variance in the jet stream, wind sheer, greater quantity
of cyclones, and drought.

Increased rainfall
If we increase the temperature of the air it is able to absorb more moisture in the form of water
vapor. If we cool the air that vapor becomes liquid and falls to the earth as rain. The greater the
amount of water vapor the atmosphere absorbs the greater the amount of rainfall we will receive
during the normal process of reaching a dew point or other yard stick of precipitation. This
increased rainfall results in drastically increased erosion. Areas such as Colorado’s Platte River
long noted for the devastation following its hundred-year floods can in no way accommodate that
same volume of water arriving every decade. Erosion is vulnerable tropical areas such as Africa
results in native plant life dying off and a resultant desertification.
Evaporation, by definition is a cooling process. So why then is this increased evaporation not
countering global warming? Because the water vapor that enters the atmosphere counters the
cooling process while acting as a greenhouse gas. It should be pointed out that change in climate
for targeted areas can often result in a plus side modification meaning that adding water to dry
areas usually results in those areas being able to support vegetation.

Destabilization of local climates

The overall destabilization of local climates is a major effect of global warming. The Arctic is
home to over 4 million people. Canada, Russia, and Alaska are dealing with a tremendous rise in
bacterial growth as permafrost regions warm.
Glaciers in the northern hemisphere have decreased in size by 50% over the last 100 years. This
particular meltdown has resulted in landslides; flash floods and lake overflow through out the
Andes, Alps, Pyrenees, Himalayas, and Rocky Mountains. These seasonal meltdowns are
followed by seasonal droughts. Global warming creates climate extremes. We may measure the
average but we live with the outcome of the extremes. The slow steady melting of the Himalayas
results in the steady flow of water of the Ganges River. The Ganges is the lifeblood of over 500
million people. To say this plainly, if we melt all of our fresh water too quickly and send it out to
blend with the ocean billions of people, including our friend in Denver, Colorado will go thirsty.

Acidic Oceans
Our Oceans are the Earth’s largest sink for the absorption of CO2 from our atmosphere. As
excess CO2 is dealt with, the oceans in an effort to balance the ecosystem have become saturated
with CO2. This has resulted in production of mild carbonic acid and is known as ocean
acidification. While this is an extremely slight change in the ph (acid to base) balance of the seas
it does result in damage to corals. Coral reefs are home to the vast majority of undersea life.
Ocean acidification coincides with Oxygen depletion in our oceans. Heavier CO2 molecules are
supplanting oxygen. Less oxygen equals less fish.
Drought
As temperature swings increase we are left with flooding in some areas and drought in others the
drought creates correct conditions for forest fires. These fires, like our hurricanes, are suddenly
emerging on a much grander scale. The 2009 fires raging through Australia and the 2002 fires in
Florida serve as excellent examples. Massive fires release much more carbon as both particle and
molecule than can readily be absorbed. Once again prevalent anti global warming as reality
belief is that these fires can only be considered a natural effect of the ecosystem and as the
forests are a naturally renewing resource should be discounted as an effect of global warming.
However with global warming defined as a premise of additional stress on our environment we
come to realize that it is not the existence of a naturally made fire but the scale of that event that
matters.
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Secondary effects of global warming

All of the above initial effects of global warming set into motion the following more directly
adverse effects. Every human being, animal and plant on planet Earth feels these second tier
effects.

Decreased crop yields

For a short time it was hoped that a byproduct of global warming would be increased yields of
agriculture. The obvious conclusion was that plant life through photosynthesis would make good
use of the increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and produce a lush abundance of flora.
Certainly areas such as Iceland, which due to an overall warmer climate can now support the
growth of crops such as barley, have benefited from global warming. Regions such as Siberia are
now able to produce food. But overall the effect of global Warming on agriculture is decidedly
negative. Floods and droughts do not make suitable growing fields. In Africa, areas that
historically received two rain falls yearly now receive more resulting in increased yields, but
areas receiving one rainfall per annum now receive less. This of course results in a non existent
growing season and a 33% decrease in harvestable crops. While an increase in rainfall may
increase yields for those already able to produce a harvest a decrease in rainfall results in a
complete lack of food for others.

Flooding of coastal areas results in coastal growing plains being destroyed. For many poorer
countries these are the only fertile areas accessible to transportation via waterways. Poor
countries like Bangladesh are completely at risk to massive starvation caused by coastal
flooding.
Many Pacific Island nations will be completely eliminated as sea levels rise. It is already planned
to evacuate the peoples of Tuvalu to nearby New Zealand as flood defense in not economically
or agriculturally possible.
Species Migration and Extinction

People will not be the only living things on the move due to global warming. As regional
ecosystems change many species will be unable to find historical food sources. This will result in
mass migrations to climates hoped to support those species as well as mass extinction of those
animals unable to migrate an /or adapt. Polar bears, emperor penguins, gyrfalcons and snowy
owls are just a few of the species current in peril in the new warmer Arctic and Antarctic regions.
Longer warm seasons result in such basic changes as a Polar bears loss of natural camouflage. A
white bear on brown earth is easy for a seal to avoid.

Birds and butterflies have shifted the range of their migrations almost 200 kilometers in North
America and Europe. Plant life is unable to shift regions as quickly and as such will die out
unless manually replanted in more conducive settings. When herbivores migrate to find a
genetically compatible climate they face the risk of starvation when their traditional foodstuffs
have not migrated with them. Many species are simply unable to migrate to better climes and as
such will suffer the fate of Australia’s white possum. Unable to survive in temperatures above 30
degrees Celsius the entire species was destroyed during a surprisingly excessive heat wave
during 2005. Their loss is directly attributed to global warming.
Severe winters in British Columbia have always managed to keep in balance the voracious effect
of the Pine Beetle. Warmer temperatures have now allowed the beetles to profligate and destroy
33 million acres of Canadian pines.

Mountain run off of melting snows is expected to result in seasonal flooding followed by
seasonal drought in every mountain range in the world. Mountains cover one fourth of the
Earth’s land mass. As upper mountain areas warm it is expected that over heated lower level
animals and plants will simply move up to a higher elevation. But what of life already situated at
the upper threshold? Once they reach the top of the mountain where will they move up to?

The Human Condition

Of course we tend to realize the plight of animals as we can easily see their need to migrate to
better stomping grounds. But, what are the direct effects of increased temperature on
homosapiens?

Disease spreads in an overheated environment. Ever notice that there isn’t a lot of malaria in
Buffalo, New York or Moscow, Russia. Cold kills germs. Global warming will extend the
favorable zones for many infectious diseases. Encephalitis, Lyme disease and the
aforementioned malaria will join with other bacteria based carriers of illness to spread
throughout areas previously thought of as safe zones.

Our bodies must work harder to cool off when placed in a higher ambient temperature.
Cardiovascular function is directly reduced by even a 1-degree temperature increase.

Higher concentrations of greenhouse gases in the air we breathe are also directly damaging to
lung tissue and lung capacity.
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2002 – Global warming is compared against

global dimming as climate shifts are still
noted

Icy regions show shrinkage as some deserts

continue to expand
The largest floating iceberg known to exist disconnects from the Antarctic Peninsula where it
had been attached for thousands of years. It then collapses and breaks into hundreds of pieces
which float away. In the same month on the other end of the globe recorded measurements of the
world’s largest icecap Vatnajokull in Iceland result in report that this huge glacier could
completely disappear by the end of the century if global warming continues to develop
exponentially.
By summer China acknowledges that its northern deserts are growing at such a rate that they are
now seven times the size of the entire United Kingdom. In Northern Africa desertification has
reached a point where the entire Sahelian region is expected to be overcome and become devoid
of inhabitants over the next 20 years if the expansion of new desert areas is not halted. These
four examples mark the beginning of definitive signs of global warming effects.

Critics of global warming theories attempt to dispel its possibilty

The global warming “hoax” committee begins to develop as the term global dimming is used to
invalidate global warming as a legitimate cause of climate change. Global dimming effectively
shades the Earth by means of pollutant particles released into the atmosphere. Political
representatives of the unregulated industry sectors cite temporal atmospheric cooling as a
negation of surface Earth temperature increases. At the same time environmental activists predict
that the eventual cleanup of these pollutants will result in an abrupt global warming event.
 Discussion of forced species relocation takes place in
Johannesburg
In Johannesburg, South Africa a conference known as Earth Summit 2002 was held. The
conference, admittedly a forum for staunch green Earth advocates, differs from earlier Earth
summit talks in that emphasis is now place on sustainable development. To that end, the
assemblage includes representatives from the industrial corporate sector, farming, and
indigenous peoples directly affected by global warming. Emphasis at the summit was based on
forced migrations of both animal species and humankind.

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2003 – Climate cycles are weighed against

global warming existence
Climate studies consider the possibility of a normal 100 year cycle in effect
The scientific committee is once again the focal point of global warming debate as a compilation
of 240 different climate studies seems to prove that increasing global temperatures during the
20th century are merely the result of a typical 100 year climate change cycle. U.S. scientists
specifically refute the idea that the major cause of climate change is solar fluctuation.
Temperature changes resulting in lesser rainfall reinforce scientific data showing that 90% of the
world’s glaciers are in retreat and many are disappearing completely. Areas of the globe
dependent on yearly meltdowns for irrigation begin to take notice.

Decreased emissions from Canada come into question

Slower economic growth results in Canada reporting decreases in its emissions of greenhouse gases for the prior
year for the first time since the late 1980s. Argument occurs that this decrease in greenhouse gas emissions is purely
based on poor economic factors. The Canadian standpoint is reinforced however when looking at these reports
showing a 5% decrease in environmental pollution occurring between the years 1995 and 2002.
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2004 – Conservative and Liberal climate

opinions come to the forefront of media
Studies indicating concern over commercial jet emissions are released
Researchers state that pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions from commercial jets that are
directly released into the upper atmosphere will potentially become the largest man made cause
of changes in climate. This takes into account both particle disbursement into the troposphere
and greenhouse gas emissions from jet fuel exhaust. In a similar tone it is shown that aerosols
long considered the primary threat to the Earth’s ozone layer are now acting to cool the Earth
through global dimming. Once again scientists warn that as use of aerosol diminishes in future
years the greater threat of global warming will be unmasked.

Bush administration shows skepticism towards global warming

President George W. Bush of the United States and his administration steadfastly claim the entire
prospect of global warming to be a hoax. China is acknowledged by the International Energy
Agency worldwide as the second largest carbon emitter based on their tremendously expanded
use of fossil fuels with little or no emissions regulation.

Entertainment media pushes climate change

scenarios to extremes
2004 sees the first release of books, movies and documentaries featuring in discussing global
warming. Overstatements of massive climate swings are depicted in movies such as The Day
after Tomorrow and Michael Crichton’s book “State of Fear”.