Many view global warming as the great impending doom of our earth and many scientists are convinced that such is the case.
Recently the company IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) predicted that by the year 2100, the sea level would have increased with over 50 cm’s!
Paleoclimatic Evidence for Future Ice-Sheet Instability and Rapid Sea-Level Rise, a scientific report released in the “Journal Science”, claims that an even greater increase is anticipated. “The increased rate of which the Antarctic pole, Artic pole along with the Greenland glaciers will melt and thus increase the rise of the sea level will possibly result in a 3 feet (1m) increase”¹.Hurricanes and other natural disasters are said to be increasing due to global warming, however, some scientist think otherwise.In September of 2005, a scientist named Roger Pielke Jr, working at theUniversity of
Colorado, wrote an article in the “Bulletin of The American Meteorological Society” claiming that are hardly any signs of global warming affecting Hurricane patterns.This view was not accepted by all scientists and still there is much controversy whether global warming really has the great impact it is predicted to have.During January in 2005, Christopher Landsea (one of the most respected Hurricane Scientists in existence) quit the IPCC in an act of protest, after the director of the panel, Rajenda Pauchari, officially supported the statements claiming that hurricanes were increasing in multitude and strength due to global warming.
Work Cited
http://www.reason.com/news/show/32958.html, Reason Online, August 17, 2005.
http://www.ecobridge.org/content/g_tht.htm, EcoBridge, unknown date.
