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Global warming activists draw toward their audience’s emotion appeal, and don’t purely use scientific evidence to back up their claims. One of the most prominent examples of this is a documentary by Al Gore, “An Inconvenient Truth” which is the fourth most viewed documentary of all time. The documentary goes into detail human’s impact and role on global warming and essentially blames humans as global warming’s main cause.(7) The films draws to an emotional appeal blaming human caused global warming on tragedies like Hurricane Katrina, the melting of the ice caps, and polar bear traveling as far a 60 miles just to drown because they couldn’t find ice. The film was made by a politician and used many pictures and video animation but is not accurate in some of its main claims.(4)
The film itself has been banned in many schools, with many other schools requiring a disclaimer if it is shown because information in it has since been proven not to be as factual as presented.(4) One of the first claims it makes is polar bears are running out of ice and are drowning, it turns out that Al Gore misread the report he got. This was not true. Four polar bears did die but because of a violent storm, not looking for ice due to global warming. In fact, ice glaciers grew by more than 500,000 square kilometer last year, and polar bears are at a recent high.(8)(5) Another major emotional appeal that Al Gore made was Global Warming caused Hurricane Katrina. This is simply not the case, government experts ruled that global warming did not cause Hurricane Katrina and you cannot blame one off event on this issue.(4) The reason that Hurricane Katrina was a catastrophe was rather because the levees were not properly made and much of the damage would preventable if they were properly constructed. Al Gore’s claim that humans are causing the global temperature to rise and cause these events is not correct.
The earth’s temperature is not at record levels and should not be a concern; it is a pattern the earth has been going through for thousands of years.(2) For one, the earth was actually significantly hotter just a thousand years ago. Over the past couple years there have actually been global weather reports of the earth’s temperature being cooler than the previous year.(9) In 2008, the Northern Hemisphere received the most snow it has since 1966. The ice caps simply are not disappearing, according to a report from the US National Snow and Ice Data Center in Colorado ice caps have actually grown by twenty six percent since 2007.(10) Another report released from NASA shows the last three months have actually been below their 30-year average. These studies were taken using satellite temperature images. The ice caps are always growing and shrinking and global temperature is always going through cycles and this is no reason to support global warming or be a concern.
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There has been a weak correlation between carbon dioxide emissions and a slight rise in temperatures in the past, but this does not prove causation.(5) In a documentary called Swindle, many credible scientists, disprove that humans have any impact on global temperature. The documentary states that the sun and water vapor is responsible for the trend of warmer temperatures and are natural causes. Historically if global warming was human caused, temperatures should rise when more carbon dioxide is produced which would be during industrial revolution and periods of high building and carbon dioxide emissions, which is actually the opposite of what has happened. The temperature rose before the industrial revolution and after the economic boom in the last 20th century. There just isn’t the correlation between carbon dioxide emissions by humans and a rise in global temperature that is claimed.
Global warming is not a human caused event and is rather a cycle the earth goes through over many centuries. This period has neither been the hottest or coldest and the cycle is not attributed to human caused carbon dioxide emissions. There have been numerous reports that disprove the claims that humans are responsible for global warming. Global warming activist draw to an emotional appeal to credit their work and not a scientific approach. There has been no statically sound evidence that global warming is human caused at all and that rather the warming and cooling of the earth is from natural causes and is a cycle.
Sources
(1)http://www.forbes.com/sites/markhendrickson/2012/09/16/climate-change-hoax-or-crime-of-the-century/
(2)http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterferrara/2012/05/31/sorry-global-warming-alarmists-the-earth-is-cooling/
(3)http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/02/15/global-warming-insignificant-years-admits-uks-climate-scientist/
(4)http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/monckton/goreerrors.html
(5)http://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-blog/correlation_last_decade_and_this_century_between_co2_and_global_temperature/
(6)http://www.differencesmag.org/need-2-know/what-shade-of-green-r-u/430-scientists-say-carbon-dioxide-does-not-cause-global-warming.html
(7) http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/05/060524-global-warming.html
(8)http://www.ibtimes.com/polar-bear-population-higher-20th-century-something-fishy-about-extinction-fears-821075
(9)http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/02/15/global-warming-insignificant-years-admits-uks-climate-scientist/
(10)http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2010/jan/10/inconvenient-truth-ice-cap-growing/
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