Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Week 7: Is it Warming or Cooling? Make up your mind!

Hey Scholars,

This week's topic is global climate change. The current scientific view point is that our climate is slowly warming. Prior to this current belief, there were scholars that thought we were headed for an ice age. Even movies such as The Day After Tomorrow depict this. This week we will reinforce Science's Current Perspective but for this week's post I want you to find alternate opinions on this subject. Post the link where you found your info.


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35 comments:

  1. AnonymousMarch 30, 2011 at 8:13 PM

    I think it somewhat does, but not really, because global warming has to do with an increase in the global climate. Most natural disasters are caused by faults from the earth, not the because climates are getting hotter.

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  2. Kayla RamseyMarch 31, 2011 at 4:37 PM

    Kayla Ramsey
    4th Period

    Overall, the climate is a major controversy but what i found was that some scientists believe that the climate will rise in temperature and create extreme weather.

    http://media.www.thestrand.ca/media/storage/paper404/news/2010/01/07/Opinions/The-Lost.Generation.Facing.Our.Climate.Change.Future-3852161.shtml

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  3. AnonymousMarch 31, 2011 at 8:40 PM

    Richard Alley, Penn State University Glaciologist

    Richard Alley discovered something 10 years ago that made him worry the Earth's climate could suddenly shift, and it changed his life. It was a two-mile long ice core, pulled up from the center of Greenland. It contained bubbles of air that reveal what the Earth's atmosphere was like over a period of 100,000 years. The ice core showed that at one point, in as little as 10 years, the global climate had drastically changed. Soon after that discovery, climate change became a personal crusade for Alley.

    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1893089

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  4. AnonymousMarch 31, 2011 at 9:14 PM

    http://www.odu.edu/ao/instadv/quest/Greenhouse.html

    Jens Bischof focused on the ice caps melting and the cold water/ice moving down south causing the southern temperatures to drop more than usual. "... the very greenhouse warming we fear may either mitigate the cooling or cancel it altogether."

    Kathryn Trumble
    3rd Period

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  5. Benjamín MittagMarch 31, 2011 at 11:00 PM

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4081541.stm

    Ben Mittag 3rd

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  6. UnknownApril 1, 2011 at 9:58 AM

    NASA has data that indicates that there has been no significant temperature change since early 20th century. Hansen’s claim of greater warming during 1990-2006 is driven in large part by a brief spike in warming (caused by an El Nino event) that occurred during 1997-1998. The spike is over and subsequent temperature data indicate that the warming trend is back to normal.

    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,249598,00.html

    Taylor Springs 3rd period

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  7. Justin FungApril 3, 2011 at 3:34 PM

    •Steve Fielding, a member of the Australian Senate, voted against the climate-change legislation in 2009. Politicians, scientists, and citizens doubt the science of human-caused global warming
    •The Polish Academy of Sciences published a document challenging man-made global warming
    •In Czech Republic, only 11% of the population believes humans play a role in global warming
    •New Zealand suspended the country’s cap-and-trade program

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124597505076157449.html

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  8. UnknownApril 3, 2011 at 7:59 PM

    Although this article was posted several years ago, the topic and opinions remain highly relevent."Global Warming or Just Hot Air? A Dozen Different Views", is an article that presents the controversial issue of global warming and includes the varying opinions of multiple professionals whether they are from a professor at Princeton, a director at NASA or a former vice president.

    http://www.livescience.com/4144-global-warming-hot-air-dozen-views.html

    Elizabeth Neal (APES Period 3)

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  9. Parker HambrightApril 3, 2011 at 9:09 PM

    This site explain why global warming could just be a hoax and the truth behind the possibility of global cooling. Also on this web page the thought of how humans may not even be affecting the atmosphere and that its all natural is explained.

    http://www.isthereglobalcooling.com/

    Parker Hambright
    4th Period

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  10. ByrdiApril 3, 2011 at 9:39 PM

    http://www.iceagenow.com/Glaciers_growing_on_Mt_Shasta.htm
    ^^^
    Global cooling? This is an article about glaciers growing, not melting.

    http://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-scientific-consensus-intermediate.htm
    ^^^
    97% of climatologists agree that global warming is caused by humans. (For human caused global warming.)

    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/03/28/bombshell-conclusion-new-peer-reviewed-analysis-worldwide-temperature-increase-has-not-produced-acceleration-of-global-sea-level-over-the-past-100-years/
    ^^^
    Temperature increase has not caused the sea level to rise over the past hundred years. (Against human-caused global warming)

    kristen, 3rd.

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  11. c.nicoleApril 4, 2011 at 3:18 PM

    Some say the northern hemisphere oceans were not warm enough to allow rain formation. Which forms global warming.
    By cleaning up global dimming-causing pollutants without tackling greenhouse gas emissions, rapid warming has been observed, and various human health and ecological disasters have resulted, as witnessed during the European heat wave in 2003, which saw thousands of people die.

    http://www.globalissues.org/issue/178/climate-change-and-global-warming

    -Casey Mercer

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  12. UnknownApril 4, 2011 at 4:41 PM

    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124008307

    Rebecca Manning

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  13. mallory.mitchell94April 4, 2011 at 6:24 PM

    http://www.livescience.com/4144-global-warming-hot-air-dozen-views.html

    On live science .com there are many views from different scientists and well respected people and their views on the topic of global warming. Many if not all of the opinions state that we are in a period of global warming and not a global cooling. Most of the people who stated their opinions are basing their findings of the glaciers melting, drought, spread of tropical disease and the amount of pollution created by people.

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  14. UnknownApril 5, 2011 at 9:56 AM

    savannah cannon, 3rd period

    http://media.www.thestrand.ca/media/storage/paper404/news/2010/01/07/Opinions/The-Lost.Generation.Facing.Our.Climate.Change.Future-3852161-page2.shtml

    I liked this articles focus on the governmental contribution, or lack there of, for environmental sustainability. It's obvious that we're in a global warming, the ice caps are melting, there's excessive droughts, and spontaneous destructive weather. None of those factors point towards a cooling of any sort. The human impact on the world, via pollution, being uneducated, and general disconcern have caused massive amounts of green house gases to build up, locking in hot air, warming our atmosphere.

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  15. UnknownApril 5, 2011 at 4:41 PM

    I found a intriguing study that suggested that fossil fuels are NOT the main cause of global warming as evidence was found that showed dates in the medieval time period where temperatures reached far beyond temperatures recorded in the last hundred years. http://www.seattlepi.com/national/article/Foes-of-global-warming-theory-have-energy-ties-1116097.php

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  16. Andrew CollinsApril 5, 2011 at 11:14 PM

    if the earths temperature would rise by even 2 degrees, tremendous changes would occur like the rising in sea level over land masses, and animal habits would change due to land mass coverage of water, leaving animals to migrate from their habitats and changing the way animals have to live. sever changes would occur if the temperature would exceed 2 degrees, leading to natural disasters becoming natural events, the oceans become desert wastelands, and mass extinction.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8qmaAMK4cM&feature=relmfu

    Andrew Collins

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  17. UnknownApril 12, 2011 at 2:40 PM

    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/may/20/scientists-defend-research-on-global-warming/

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  18. UnknownApril 12, 2011 at 2:40 PM

    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/may/20/scientists-defend-research-on-global-warming/

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  19. Weston GommerApril 12, 2011 at 3:26 PM

    http://blogcritics.org/politics/article/global-warming-is-there-really-even/

    Weston Gommer
    Its just one big debate nothing is being solved and nothing is changing and thats how it is always going to be. We live in the earth we have created and we have to deal with it.

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  20. SarahApril 14, 2011 at 11:37 PM

    Sarah Kwasnik 3rd period APES

    Global warming alarmists must be feeling a chill as new facts overwhelm their fiction. It's snowing in April. Ice is spreading in Antarctica. The Great Barrier Reef is as healthy as ever. And that's just the news of the past week.
    Andrew Bolt, http://www.examiner.com/macon-county-conservative-in-springfield/public-opinion-turning-against-global-warming-almost-as-quickly-as-science

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  21. UnknownApril 15, 2011 at 7:04 PM

    Global Warming vs Global Cooliong article:

    http://www.celsias.com/article/welcome-ice-age-global-warming-vs-global-cooling/

    Carly Legg
    3rd Period
    APES

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  22. UnknownApril 18, 2011 at 6:08 PM

    Thomas Hartmann believes that the temperature will not increase from global warming but decrease rapidly to cause the next ice age.

    http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0130-11.htm

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  23. UnknownApril 18, 2011 at 6:10 PM

    Some scientist believe that global warming is connected to extreme rain.



    http://www.ncriverwatch.org/wordpress/2011/03/28/scientists-connect-global-warming-to-extreme-rain/

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  24. AnonymousApril 18, 2011 at 9:57 PM

    http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/health/world-might-be-heading-towards-ice-age_10041009.html

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  25. Matt MonroeApril 19, 2011 at 5:42 AM

    I think its a matter of global warming not global cooling. Yeah we have had one of the worst winters in a long time but I think as earth gets warmer, weather will become more extreme. Civilization itself sprang up right after an iceage and through scientific studies, iceages come and go as a natural cycle of the planet. So with that its easy to say that were living in between two ice ages and its natural for the planet to warm up before it cools down and the next iceage begins.

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  26. Dark Lord Azar, the Unholy Paladin of the DeepApril 21, 2011 at 1:33 PM

    Professor Richard Alley believes from bubbles he found in an ice core that the earth can drastically change its climate. The climate showed great change in a period of ten years he stated in his findings.
    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1893089
    Bill S.

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  27. UnknownApril 21, 2011 at 5:37 PM

    Signs of Stregnthening Global Cooling

    http://notrickszone.com/2011/01/22/signs-of-strengthening-global-cooling/

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  28. UnknownApril 21, 2011 at 5:40 PM

    http://www.uncoverage.net/2010/12/accu-weatherman-predicts-global-cooling-and-2011-drought/

    AccuWeather’s chief hurricane and long-range forecaster Joe Bastardi predicts Global Cooling

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  29. UnknownApril 21, 2011 at 9:04 PM

    Robert Boone
    3rd Period
    this is late so i will post mine and also talk about someone else's.

    http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2008/02/29/alternative-thinking-on-global-warming/

    this was the perfect article for me to find, and to be honest i had to search for it. This man believes the same thing that i do, about global warming being inevitable.

    @ Taylor Springs:
    i think that although the dramatic spike was only temporary i do not think that this is evidence enough to discard the idea of global warming. global warming is more then just the average temperature rising... its the extremes in weather patterns. which is easily noticeable.

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  30. UnknownApril 22, 2011 at 3:47 AM

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703819904574551303527570212.html

    This article discusses how temperatures may be effected by something called "urban heat island" effect. Basically saying that temperatures are normally taken in big cities and big cities have large amounts of concrete and asphalt which traps heat.

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  31. UnknownApril 22, 2011 at 3:52 AM

    http://www.globalwarminghoax.com/print.php?extend.68.1

    This website thinks the temperatures are cooling and that the next 20 years will be colder than normal.

    -katelyn kane 3rd period

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  32. UnknownApril 22, 2011 at 9:58 AM

    Douglas Collins
    3rd Period

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703819904574551303527570212.html

    This link shows the case against global warming. It highlights the fact that while the arctic is melting; Antarctica is actually growing in its ice shelf. And also that while urban temperatures are really high, that may be a result of a heat island resulting from all the concrete in the city and that satellite measures of temperature show that they are well within the natural range.

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  33. bryan.parks375May 3, 2011 at 7:43 PM

    http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14504

    based on the information given in this site, it makes me believe that we are currently in a period of warming, but we are not far away from a period of cooling. the earths climate goes back and forth between heating and cooling cycles.

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  34. UnknownMay 13, 2011 at 3:45 PM

    To my knowledge, the earth switches in between these warming and cooling phases as time goes on.

    As it seems, our climate is getting more harsh, rather than becoming solely becoming warmer or cooler. Our winters are becoming colder and our summers are becoming hotter. So, while I'd like to take a side, I'm rather neutral on the subject.

    http://reason.com/archives/2004/11/10/two-sides-to-global-warming

    Although I remain pretty neutral, the site above concludes that the earth is cooling. As proven by the declining krill population in the cold waters around Antarctica.

    -Eli Krenzke

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  35. jamesMay 30, 2011 at 8:33 PM

    http://www.prisonplanet.com/global-cooling-is-really-global-warming.html

    SHACK
    3RD

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