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r What is Global Warmingǥ..

r Causes
r Effects
r Alarmistǯs view
r Skepticǯs view
r Solutions
What is Global Warming?
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is the increase in the average
temperature of Earth.
Explanation of the causes of
global warming
Why is this warming bad?!
r Àelting of the ice caps.

r Increase the oceans

height by up to 2 feet in only
one century!

r Floods
 ther ects rom Global Warming
r Õatural disasters increasing eg. Hurricanes .
r Disease have been spreading more rapidly.
r Animals have been found migrating towards the poles
due to the increase in heat.
ñlarmist Viewpoint
r Global warming and pollution from CO2 emissions are
adding to greenhouse gases so significantly that the
Earth is warming up and will continue to warm.
 acts to Back the ñlarmist View
r Hurricanes doubled in
the last 30 years.

r Àalaria has spread to

higher altitudes in
places like the
Columbian Andes

r The flow of ice from

glaciers in Greenland
has more than doubled
in the past decade.

r Response of 279 species

towards global warming
 t re ects o ñlarmist͛s Global Warming
r Deaths will increase up to 300,000 people a year.
r Global sea levels could rise & devaste costal areas
worldwide.
r Heat waves will be more frequent and intense.
r Droughts and wildfires will occur more often.
r The Arctic Ocean could be ice free by 2050.
r Àore than a million species could be driven to
extinction by 2050.
keptic͛s Views
r ^nlike the alarmistǯs view the skepticǯs views vary
r The two main ideas :
r Part of Earthǯs natural cycle (the Earth has been
warming and cooling ever since its beginning)
r This is all an effect from solar activity and the
temperature of the Earth.
 n heory
r As supplier of almost all the energy in
Earth's climate, the sun certainly has a
strong influence on climate change.
Consequently there have been many studies
examining the link between solar variations
and global temperatures.
arth͛s
at ral wycle heory
r This theory is essentially saying that yes
there has been human interference but
nothing to the extent of what the alarmist
fear. This theory also states that the Earth
has warmed and cooled before as well as had
rises in the levels of CO2 and has always
gotten through it.
acts to Back the keptic͛s  n heory
r Perhaps the best evidence of the sun theory would be
this graph showing the temperature in comparison to
solar activity
act͛s to Back the arth͛s
at ral wycle
heory.
r Greenland was originally in fact exactly how it
soundsǥ GREEÕǥ
r Also the fact that the Earth witnessed a medieval
warming period that saw very warm temperatures.
r As well as the little ice age that occurred in the early
1800ǯs.
keptic͛s Reasons to be keptic

Significant funding for

experiments.
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 r ol tions..
r ^se of efficient
energy sources.
r ^se of hybrid
energy appliances.
r Plantation.
r Individual efforts.