can any one help with a paper about global warming?

Question

i have this paper i have to do for my tech.society class and its about global warming. does it occur what can we do about it stuff like that. i have some information off the internet but I was wondering what you think and if you could help me.

Answer 1

Yes, the Sun is responsible for all of the warmth on Earth. While co2 does trap some heat, it is not a primary factor in the climate.

The amount of co2 that has been going into the atmosphere has steadly increased, but temperatures are on the decline since 1998.

However co2 is a symptom, not the cause of global warming.

"Rising levels of carbon dioxide and other gases emitted through human activities, believed by scientists to trap heat in the Earth's atmosphere, are an effect rather than the cause of global warming, a prominent Russian scientist said Monday.

Habibullo Abdusamatov, head of the space research laboratory at the St. Petersburg-based Pulkovo Observatory, said global warming stems from an increase in the sun's activity. His view contradicts the international scientific consensus that climate change is attributable to the emission of greenhouse gases generated by industrial activities, such as the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation.

"Global warming results not from the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, but from an unusually high level of solar radiation and a lengthy - almost throughout the last century - growth in its intensity," Abdusamatov told RIA Novosti in an interview.

"It is no secret that when they go up, temperatures in the world's oceans trigger the emission of large amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. So the common view that man's industrial activity is a deciding factor in global warming has emerged from a misinterpretation of cause and effect relations." "

And

"Simultaneous warming on Earth and Mars suggests that our planet's recent climate changes have a natural—and not a human-induced—cause, according to one scientist's controversial theory.

Earth is currently experiencing rapid warming, which the vast majority of climate scientists says is due to humans pumping huge amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

Mars, too, appears to be enjoying more mild and balmy temperatures.

In 2005 data from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor and Odyssey missions revealed that the carbon dioxide "ice caps" near Mars's south pole had been diminishing for three summers in a row.

Habibullo Abdussamatov, head of space research at St. Petersburg's Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory in Russia, says the Mars data is evidence that the current global warming on Earth is being caused by changes in the sun.

"The long-term increase in solar irradiance is heating both Earth and Mars," he said.

Solar Cycles

Abdussamatov believes that changes in the sun's heat output can account for almost all the climate changes we see on both planets.

Mars and Earth, for instance, have experienced periodic ice ages throughout their histories.

"Man-made greenhouse warming has made a small contribution to the warming seen on Earth in recent years, but it cannot compete with the increase in solar irradiance," Abdussamatov said.

By studying fluctuations in the warmth of the sun, Abdussamatov believes he can see a pattern that fits with the ups and downs in climate we see on Earth and Mars. "

Answer 2

A few months ago I had to write a very long and technical paper all about global warming, it's causes, effects etc. It ended up hundreds of pages long and full of technical mumbo jumbo. It's since been dramatically condensed and all the technical stuff replaced with 'real words' and with pictures instead of complicated graphs and diagrams. Here's an online version of it -

Text only http://profend.com/global-warming/pages/textonly.html
Graphics version - http://profend.com/global-warming/pages/intro.html

I've allowed it to be made available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License which means you can copy from and quote from it as much as you like.

Let me know if you need information or graphs about the global temperature record. This is something we're working on at the moment, a simplified version will be online very shortly and we aim to have the most definitive, easy to understand, temperature record there is. At the moment we don't know where it will be on the internet otherwise I'd give you a link.

Answer 3

Dr. Jello is just misleading you. Everything he says is designed to obscure the truth.

If you are really doing a paper, the place to start is at the UN with they International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that is a multi-national group of SCIENTIST that have been researching this question for years. Link to a summary of working group 1's report is below.

http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/Report/AR4WG1_Print_SPM.pdf