Human-induced climate change remains a controversial topic with a lot of misinformation on both sides of the political spectrum. discuss the following aspects of some of the more common claims about global warming. a very good website that discusses some of these topics is the skeptical science website.
- the sun is causing most of the warming of the earth.
- scientists don’t really agree on global warming.
- it hasn’t warmed since 1998 and therefore global warming really isn’t happening
- antarctica is actually gaining ice.
- we have had some very severe winters recently, evidence the earth is not warming.
- cities have grown in size and cities are generally warmer than the surroundings creating a false temperature reading.
- the temperature record is unreliable and therefore we really don’t know what’s going on.
write a short essay or paragraph of at least 300 words.