How do i convince my teacher that global warming/climate change isn't all human impacted?

Question

My teacher said that she would give 10 extra credit points to someone in our class if they could prove that global warming isn't all due to human impact. I've done some moderate research but I still need more facts and key ideas.

Answer 1

1, Records of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels since 1940 show a continuing increase, but during this period, global temperature decreased until 1975, and has increased since then.

2,All models of temperature increase as a result of the greenhouse effect predict that the warming will be at its greatest for a given location in the troposphere and at its lowest near the surface of the earth. Current satellite and weather balloon data do not support this model, and instead show that the surface warming rate is greater than or equal to the rate in the lower troposphere.

3, Increases in CO2 levels lagged behind temperature increases during glacial terminations.

4, Carbon dioxide levels increase or decrease as a result of temperatures increasing or decreasing rather than temperatures following carbon dioxide levels, because as the global climate cools the Earth's oceans absorb carbon dioxide, and as the climate warms the oceans release carbon dioxide.

5, Due to the large oceanic mass, it takes hundreds of years for global temperature changes to register in the mass of the ocean, which is why analysis of the Vostok Station and other ice cores shows that changes in the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide follow changes in global temperature lag temperature increases by 800 years.

6, Water vapor makes up 95% of all greenhouse gases and has the largest impact on the planet's temperature. Water particles in the form of clouds act to reflect incoming solar heat. The effects of clouds cannot be accurately simulated by scientists attempting to predict future weather patterns and their effects on global warming.

7, The total concentration of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere is just 0.054%, a very minuscule amount. Humans contribute much less than 1% of that. Plants and animals produce 150 gigatons of CO2 each year. Dying leaves produce even more CO2, and the oceans are the biggest source of CO2 by far. Human activity produces 6.5 gigatons of CO2 each year. Man-made CO2 emissions therefore cannot be causing global warming.

8, Solar activity is currently at an extremely high level, and is directly linked to changes in global temperature. The mechanism involves cosmic rays as well as heat from the sun aiding cloud formation. Solar activity is far more influential on global warming and cooling than any other man-made or natural activity on Earth.

9, The current warming is nothing unusual and temperatures were even more extreme during the Medieval Warm Period, a time of great prosperity in Europe.

10, A similar scare emerged during the 1970s when scientists predicted global cooling and the imminent onset of a new ice age.

11, There were vineyards in northern England during the Medieval period, and Greenland was once a fertile land farmed by the Vikings, so warming benefits society.
Climate models are constructed on a framework of assumptions, and many of these assumptions rest on the theory of the temperature/carbon dioxide linkage. So these models are self-referencing and based in assumptions not evidence.

Why do scientist claim man-made global warming?

There has been an increase in funds available for any research related to global warming "and it is now one of the best funded areas of science." Scientists seeking a research grant award have a much more likely chance of successfully obtaining funding if the grant is linked to global warming research.

It is more likely that vested interests occur among supporters of the proponents of the theory of man-made global warming because hundreds of thousands of jobs in science, media, and government have been created and are subsidized as a result of this theory. Scientists who speak out against the theory that global warming is man-made risk persecution, death threats, loss of funding, personal attacks, and damage to their reputations.

Some supporters of the theory that global warming is man-made do so because it supports their emotional and ideological beliefs against capitalism, economic development, globalization, industrialisation, and the United States.

The theory that global warming is man-made was promoted by Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as a means of promoting nuclear power and reducing the impact of strike action by the National Union of Mineworkers. Claims that all sceptics are funded by private industry (such as oil, gas, and coal industries) are false and have no basis in fact.

The claim that "2,500 top scientists" support the theory of man-made global warming mentioned in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report are false, and that in fact the report includes many politicians, non-scientists, and even dissenters that demanded that their names be removed from the report but were refused.
IPCC reports misrepresent the views of scientists who contribute to them through selective editorializing. For example, when Paul Reiter of the Pasteur Institute complained that the IPCC did not take his professional opinion under greater consideration, the IPCC kept his name on the report as a contributor. His name was not removed until he threatened legal action.

The concept of man-made global warming is promoted with a ferocity and intensity that is similar to a religious fervor. Sceptics are treated as heretics and equated with holocaust deniers. Retired university professor Tim Ball states in the press publicity that he has received death threats because of sceptical statements he has made about global warming.

How does Global warming effect underdevelpoped countries

Author and economist James Shikwati says that environmentalists campaign against Africa using its fossil fuels: "there's somebody keen to kill the African dream. And the African dream is to develop." He describes renewable power as "luxurious experimentation" that might work for rich countries but will never work for Africa: "I don't see how a solar panel is going to power a steel industry ... We are being told, 'Don't touch your resources. Don't touch your oil. Don't touch your coal.' That is suicide."

The World Health Organization estimates that every year, four million children die globally from respiratory diseases due to inhaling smoke from cooking fires. These deaths could be avoided if their parents had access to electrical cooking devices; yet environmentalists are opposed to the construction of large-scale power plants, because of the possible effects of global warming in the future.

Answer 2

I think you can find data to support just about any position on this topic. I think man made global warming is a trend and fashionable, because as a meteorologist, I find it disturbing that non weather and climate types buy so easily into the mythologies espoused by Al Gore. I feel weather and weather patterns dictate a lot of what we experience and do know that a volcano can affect the surrounding environment for 20 or so years, but the compensating factors outside that area will be of an equal and corresponding amount of change in reverse of the affected area. well for you all thumbers down.. go for it. it doesn't change reality, so go ahead and feel free to do as yo wish

Answer 3

This is very simple, just show your teacher how the Earth's climate has always been changing, even before humans were on the planet. There was a medieval warming period between 1000 AD and 1350 AD that was as warm or even warmer than the present warming period. Parts of Greenland were settled by the Vikings during this time and there were vineyards in northern Europe. The Earth warms and cools naturally and has many times before. Print the following links and present this information as evidence.

Answer 4

So you wanna own your teacher eh? In that case, the best thing you can do is learn which arguments against the theory have been refuted (read: all of them), and which haven't. But before you do that, I highly recommend reading through at least the FAQ section of the latest IPCC report, that way you'll get an idea of what the theory does and doesn't say. I promise you if you don't she'll wipe the proverbial floor with you.

Here's a link to the IPCC AR4 and to a site run by 13 climatologists to get you started.

http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/wg1-report.html

http://realclimate.org/

(search the site for any argument someone gives you to make sure it hasn't been refuted yet.)

Answer 5

There are three different ways that the sun influences our climate: sunspot activity, variation in the earth's tilt about it's axis, and variations in the earths orbit around the sun.

These 3 factors all have long term climate effects and you should research them as alternatives to humanity's contribution to climate change.

You should also tell your teacher that global warming isn't the only problem posed by industrial emmissions. If we continue to pollute the air we won't be able to breath very well in the future.

Good luck.

Answer 6

Well....the rabbit messiah is right actually. Even the IPCC doesn't blame humans for 100% of global warming. I think you have an easy 10 points there.

Answer 7

You need to refer to junkscience.com. They spell it out perfectly. Some of it is very detailed, because it is real science it is not easily understood.
The main thing that struck me was Al Gore's CO2 chart , mimicking global temperatures. What he doesn't say is there is a lapse of 400 years between the rise in CO2 and temperature increase. The temperature chart closely matches the Sun's temperature variations and the Earth's temperature variations (big surprise!).
Other planets have also experienced temperature increases and, as far as I know, there aren't any SUV's on Mars.

Answer 8

Well thats quite easy to proved... CO2 levels have always followed raise in temperatures in the past, it is why many scientists are mistaking this as the cause of the warming, which is only its effect and not his cause. Also, you may tell your teacher that a real green house effect, as state by scientific facts and descriptions will mainly affect high altitude area like mountains top, while not really disturbing the lower atmosphere that is mostly regulated by water vapor and forest heat retentions. Also, most geological evidences point to the fact that our planet is entering a new active phase, which means that she is boiling up, and begin to warm our ocean floor first, which in turns increase water evaporations and gas evacuations. It is proved by the increase in sea death zones, where marine life cannot breath as oxygen is getting depleted! In other words, our planet is indeed warming, but from underneath, and this reality is much more scarier than anthropogenic warming, as it makes peoples thinks that we can do something about it, while in fact we cannot do absolutely nothing! So, if your teacher is asking you, why our planet is entering into a new active phase, just tell him or her, that our planet is a giant sophisticated dynamo that react to our sun magnetic field increase, and therefore affect our planet core... If you want to proved your teacher that our planet is getting ionized by our sun magnetic storms, then show him this article:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19507007/
And if he wants to know why our sun is getting excited, then show him this text, movies and link:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19507007/

All in all, this anthropogenic perspective of global warming thing, is a political move to let our population believes that we can do something about it, so to lessen our worries about this, but as you will read in the link above, its much more complicated than this, and has much broader range of consequences, espcially in the next 5 to 6 years from now!

Answer 9

You won't. Global warming is a religion, something people really believe by faith.

Try to get an answer what the temp will be 6 months, 1 year, 5 years from these people. You won't. They will just say it's going to get warmer because the oracle of the consensus says it will.

Remember no one can predict the future.

Answer 10

Well, my guess is your teacher is a Liberal. There is no way she is going to give anyone 10 points for anything if she is there and is a good member of the Teachers Union. It may be a trick to sniff out a Republican Conservative in her class and then she will make your life miserable for the rest of the school year. Just be quiet.

Answer 11

Yeah I would differently go with the nature argument, that and scientist say that we only contribute to about 6% not what bob said with the 80-90 because volcanoes alone produce more crap in one eruption then humans do in an entire year, just imagine when a super volcanoe explodes we may be looking at the next global cooling, plus that and animals as well with cows I really know this first hand living and working on a ranch. Plus they are a variety of other things in nature but those two are diffently the top two contributors to global warming that most people know about..........