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Evidence against Global Warming Taking Place

Natural scientists have termed global warming as conceivably the greatest environmental

risk that is facing the world in the 21st century. This assertion has predominantly been attributed

to the many justifications which have been given to prove that the earthstemperatures are

gradually rising. However, an equal number of natural scientists have disputed this contention.

They claim that global warming is not taking place, and, in fact what the earth is currently

experience is aperiodic characterization of the earths behavior which has been occurring since

the beginning of time.

This paper seeks to explain what global warming. It further seeks to present evidence that

global warming is not taking place and therefore should not be a concern in the 21stcentury. To

achieve this, it will examine the evidence that has been put forward towards proving that global

warming is not taking place.

Global warming has been defined as the gradual rise in the earth temperature. It is

considered as being a special scenario of global change. It results from the continuous addition of

greenhouse effect gases to the environment due to human industry and other activities, such as

deforestation. Global warming has been assessed primarily by looking at global annual average

temperatures as a function of time.1

Several scholars have disputed the widely held thought that global warming is taking

place. In pursuit of this, they have given a mireau of evidence to support their claim. Some of the

reason they have given in support of their position include;

1 Levy, Salomon . Two-Phase Flow in Complex Systems. illustrated. New York: John Wiley & Sons,

1999.


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First, there has not been any global warming since 2007. According to Farrar2, statistics

from the climate research unit3approximate that the earthstemperature has been constant for the

past seventeen years. Historically, the earths temperatures have gone up and down ina natural

cycle, so the current global warming should be considered to be part of a natural process.4

Episodes of periodic rise and fall in the earthstemperature have always characterized the

changes in the earthstemperature. For example, during the period 1940-1975 the planet cooled,

while in the proceeding 22 years there was a constant rise in temperature, followed by a 17 years

relative hiatus that is being experienced now.5Thus, it becomes a misconstruction to suppose

that global warming is takingplace when there actually is no rise in the earths temperature.

Secondly, there is no scientific consensus that global warming is occurring and caused by

man.6Many scientific theories that were previously widely believed to be true have been

rebuffed and made irrelevant by new evidence. Additionally, over 31,000 scientists have signed

on to a petition saying humans are not responsible for causing global warming. Moreover, many

modern mainstream scientists do not agree that global warming is happening.7

Thirdly, since 2012, the artic ice has increased by 50 percent.8The arctic has for many

years been used as a basis to prove that global warming is taking place. Previous researches had

2 Farrar, Amy . Global Warming.New York: ABDO, 2010.3McKibben, Bill . The Global Warming Reader.OR Books, 2011.4 Farrar, Global Warming, 9-10.

5 Maslin, Mark . Global Warming: Causes, Effects, and the Future. illustrated. MBI PublishingCompany, 2007.6McKibben, The Global Warming Reader, 302-304.

7Maslin, Global Warming: Causes, Effects, and the Future, 62-69.8Houghton, John Theodore . Global Warming: The Complete Briefing. Cambridge University Press,

2004.


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forecasted that the arctic ice would melt completely by 2013.9Contrary to this forecast the arctic

ice has increased.

Fourthly, according to Houghton10

many of the climate models that have been used to

give evidence that global warming is taking place have been proved to be wrong. Consequently,

their forecasted projections of what effect global warming will eventually have on earth are also

erroneous.

Fifth, most of the predictions about the impact of global warming have already been

proven wrong.11

The debate over global warming has been going on for a long period of time and

some of the predictions that were made about global warming have panned out in the real

world.12

In conclusion, the debate on the concern of global warming is a non warranted debate.

Global warming is not taking place for the reasons that; there has not been any increase in the

earths temperaturesfor the past 17 years, there has not been any scientific consensus that global

warming is taking place, and the arctic ice has increased by 50 percent since 2012. Moreover,

many of the climate models used to predict the effect of global warming have been wrong and

most of the predictions made about global warming have also been wrong. Thus it is conclusive

that global warming is not taking place and should not be considered as an environmental risk in

the 21stcentury.

9Levy, Salomon . Two-Phase Flow in Complex Systems. illustrated. New York: John Wiley & Sons,1999.

10 Houghton, Global Warming: The Complete Briefing, 144-146.11 Levy, Two-Phase Flow in Complex System, 99-102.

12 Hanel, Rachael . Climate Fever: Stopping Global Warming.Capstone, 2009.


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References

Farrar, Amy . Global Warming.New York: ABDO, 2010.

Hanel, Rachael . Climate Fever: Stopping Global Warming.Capstone, 2009.

Houghton, John Theodore . Global Warming: The Complete Briefing.Cambridge University

Press, 2004.

Levy, Salomon . Two-Phase Flow in Complex Systems.illustrated. New York: John Wiley &

Sons, 1999.

Maslin, Mark . Global Warming: Causes, Effects, and the Future.illustrated. MBI Publishing

Company, 2007.

McKibben, Bill . The Global Warming Reader.OR Books, 2011.

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