Why Be a Global Warming Skeptic?

I would expect heat waves, Hurricane Katrina, and tsunamis that have occurred in recent years, to be enough to get you to understand that the planet we live on is experiencing climate change. According to authors like Mark Maslin, activists like Al Gore, writers like Elizabeth Kolbert and a number of other scientists and researchers, we’re going to be walking under water and human activity will be why. Interestingly, your mother is the CEO of a company that will result in you having no place to live. Scientific evidence predicts that different communities will be plunged under water and others will be struggling to find a lake.
Greenhouse gases already exist in the atmosphere; however, additional greenhouse gases cause the heat from the sun to trap in the atmosphere and make the Earth warmer. This heat then interrupts the weather patterns that society is accustomed to, but moreover, affects the patterns that nature is accustomed to. Basically, carbon dioxide emissions have been measured and the temperature over time has been measured as well. Both have been increasing in a related pattern over the course of time. Mark Maslin presents information about the measurements of CO2 over time. He highlights the year 1958 in Hawaii and discusses how “atmospheric concentrations of CO2 have increased every single year since 1958” (What is Global Warming?). Additionally, Al Gore presents a graph that shows the temperatures over the past few decades and the ten hottest years on record occurred in the last 14 years: 2005 being the hottest.
Simplistically, CO2 emissions have been increasing more than ever succeeding the industrial revolution and these industrial cites are indeed producing CO2 (What is Global Warming? Graph 4a/4b). The change in temperatures that correspond to the amount of CO2 being produced can be found in recent data. This change in temperature interrupts weather patterns which result in ice melting when it normally shouldn’t. This happens when the heat from the sun directly hits the water and makes the glaciers and large bodies of ice melt faster. This change in temperature also causes oceans to become warmer which cause harsher storms: Hurricane Katrina. These big issues develop and will continue to develop based on the increase in CO2 production and other greenhouse gases: which shockingly are products of machinery from the companies similar to that of your mother’s. I’d suggest you find some information about global warming because it’s quite obvious that your mother may be hiding a few “life changing” details from you.
Interestingly, I can understand why you may doubt that climate change is occurring. Many people, similar to your mother, make tons of dollars from working in these huge oil companies, industries and factories. Why should they give up their top dollars to save the planet that billions of people live on? You may hear interesting perceptions that climate change isn’t occurring by people who are in those big positions: people like Dr. Ball. There’s a video I watched in which Dr. Ball explains his reasons for rejecting that we are experiencing climate change. One thing that he mentions is scientists once expected the earth to experience another ice age in the 70s, yet we did not. He uses this to go against what scientists are now calling climate change. (Junk Science vs. Real Science. Youtube.com) What I find interesting about this skepticism is the fact that there’s no science that explains Dr. Ball’s point of view. He uses his opinion and an incident from the past to validate why he believes that companies, like the one he works for, are not causing CO2 emissions to rise. I can understand why many may think this, but many who doubt that the earth is experiencing climate change have no scientific evidence to authenticate this idea. On the other hand, those who believe that we are experiencing climate change and human activity is a major cause of it are the ones who have scientific reasoning behind it. So, you can continue to listen to mommy and have no idea that the world you live in will soon be worse than ever before, or you can educate yourself about the issue because it’s becoming more important every day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUQAHVQ1Psc
What Is Global Warming?Mark Maslin.
An Inconvenient Truth.Al Gore.