Global Warming Argumentative Research Paper
Jeff Stewart
Argumentative Research
11/29/2011
Global Warming: Is It Our Fault?
Global warming has been a topic of world-wide discussion and argument for many decades. People take the stance of either: yes, it is real, or no, it is not happening. The group that argues that it is happening states their main argument as being human contribution. But this argument can be rebutted by looking at the research that shows just how much of an impact humans really have on the warming issue and CO2 output, the history of the earth and the solar system, and how valid the topic of global warming really is.
Humans are argued to be the primary CO2 emitters of the world. It is also argued that excess CO2 is the primary reason for any kind of global …show more content…
Back in 2009 there was a scandal called “Climategate.” The scandal was about emails that scientists at the Climatic Research Unit in East Anglia who had altered research evidence to trump researchers who did not agree with their conclusions. Paul Joseph Watson has written an article focusing around this scandal. In it he reveals, “The hacked documents and communications reveal how top scientists conspired to falsify data in the face of declining global temperatures in order to prop up the premise that man-made factors are driving climate change. Others illustrate how they embarked on a venomous and coordinated campaign to ostracize climate skeptics and use their influence to keep dissenting reports from appearing in peer-reviewed journals, as well as using cronyism to avoid compliance with Freedom of Information Act requests”(Watson 1). He goes on in his research to say, “Organizations with close ties to the CRU have engaged in psychological terrorism by fearmongering about the planet with doomsday scenarios,” (Watson 2). Watson’s research contains some of the emails that implicate the scientists involved. Most of them are very critical of skeptics of their research. In fact, the main global warming theory, the AGW theory (Anthropogenic [derived from human activities] Global Warming), only covers a time span of about one thousand years. How is 1,000 years of data going to tell what happened 100,000 years ago? The only reason that the global warming scientists do not take into account the actual hard evidence of the ice cores and other physical paleoclimatology is the fact that it does not fit their hypothesis of AGW (Contoski 3). But in the end, going back to “Climategate,” if we cannot trust the data from the leading world climate lab then how can anyone take any data in support of man causing global warming
Argumentative Research
11/29/2011
Global Warming: Is It Our Fault?
Global warming has been a topic of world-wide discussion and argument for many decades. People take the stance of either: yes, it is real, or no, it is not happening. The group that argues that it is happening states their main argument as being human contribution. But this argument can be rebutted by looking at the research that shows just how much of an impact humans really have on the warming issue and CO2 output, the history of the earth and the solar system, and how valid the topic of global warming really is.
Humans are argued to be the primary CO2 emitters of the world. It is also argued that excess CO2 is the primary reason for any kind of global …show more content…
Back in 2009 there was a scandal called “Climategate.” The scandal was about emails that scientists at the Climatic Research Unit in East Anglia who had altered research evidence to trump researchers who did not agree with their conclusions. Paul Joseph Watson has written an article focusing around this scandal. In it he reveals, “The hacked documents and communications reveal how top scientists conspired to falsify data in the face of declining global temperatures in order to prop up the premise that man-made factors are driving climate change. Others illustrate how they embarked on a venomous and coordinated campaign to ostracize climate skeptics and use their influence to keep dissenting reports from appearing in peer-reviewed journals, as well as using cronyism to avoid compliance with Freedom of Information Act requests”(Watson 1). He goes on in his research to say, “Organizations with close ties to the CRU have engaged in psychological terrorism by fearmongering about the planet with doomsday scenarios,” (Watson 2). Watson’s research contains some of the emails that implicate the scientists involved. Most of them are very critical of skeptics of their research. In fact, the main global warming theory, the AGW theory (Anthropogenic [derived from human activities] Global Warming), only covers a time span of about one thousand years. How is 1,000 years of data going to tell what happened 100,000 years ago? The only reason that the global warming scientists do not take into account the actual hard evidence of the ice cores and other physical paleoclimatology is the fact that it does not fit their hypothesis of AGW (Contoski 3). But in the end, going back to “Climategate,” if we cannot trust the data from the leading world climate lab then how can anyone take any data in support of man causing global warming