One of the Hottest topics in todays political realm has to do with Global warming. Both sides of the issue are well prepared and stead-fast in the pursuits to the truth. For me, I have based my opinion off of long-term scientific data. It has been a very difficult task, because both sides are backing their claims with scientific fact. But for my argument I am basing it off of long-term scientific data. Although people will argue that Global Warming is the negative result of human involvment with the enviroment, the true cause is from natural occurances such as Solar flares, volcanic eruptions, and Jet Streams fluctuations.
The largest impact on Global Warming has to do with Solar activity. Solar activity, such as solar flares, has a direct temperature corillation to the earth's atmospheric termperature. In addition to atmospheric temperatures, scientific data has coorilated CO2 levels to solar activity. Their is a mirrored linear response. When solar activity increases, so do CO2 levels.
The second largest explanation that Global Warming is caused by natural occurances is through Volcanic activity. During eruption, volcanoes discharge large amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere. These eruptions may last for a few days, but the gases that are released into the atmosphere travel through the air for long periods of time. As can be seen from volcanic activity charts, CO2 levels peek during times of high volcanic activity. These increased gas levels can last on average for over a year, and will actually increase global temperatures for a short period of time.
The third natural occuring contributor can be explained by Jet stream fluctuations. Looking at annual cyclical weather patterns, a corrilation can be made to jet stream data. Reviewing annual data for a specific day, shows that temperatures aren't the same. Atmospheric activity rides on these jet streams. What might have been cool last year, may or may not be freezing this year.
Althoug both sides of the Global Warming argument presented their data findings, the scientific data has shown to better match solar activities, volcanic activities, and jet stream fluctuations. The earth is a very complex system that is influenced by natural occurances. Human intervention has small contributing factor by not on a grand enough scale to change atmospheric activity globally.
I agree that solar flares and volcanoes may have an impact on the tempurature and the issue of global warming; however, you don't mention any recent or specific solar activity to corroborate this claim. Also, when was the last time a volcano erupted and had an effect on the warming of the planet? I am not sure that volcanoes have any current affect on the issues of global warming, unless you can suggest otherwise. Lastly, I am rather convinced by your discussion of jet stream fluctuations, though I think that that argument could also benefit from a discussion of how these fluctuations affect the overall issue.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree that human influence has little or nothing to do with the global temperature and climate change. Personally, the thought of having “global warming” without even considering that the main climate driver, the sun, is the cause is ludicrous. It’s also negligent for people to claim that global warming is solely based off of human influence. Why would our climate getting warmer have nothing to do with our only heat source? It’s interesting that you mention solar activity and CO2 being correlated. To me, this is a more logical argument for people who do believe that CO2 is one of the main causes of global climate change. Maybe CO2 does have something to do with our higher temperatures as well as the sun. I am also intrigued at your comments regarding volcanic activity releasing CO2 into the atmosphere. This is a very good point, in my opinion because it raises the question: if CO2 is the cause of global warming, would us controlling CO2 output have any effect, or would nature continue to hurt our atmosphere? Very interesting opening blog.
ReplyDeleteI do not agree in you saying that human has nothing to do with Global Warming.I agree that it was started rise in temperature of earth hundreds of years ago but human being contribute more.They stated using fossils fuel which makes carbon dioxide gas. Another reason of global warming is Industrial Revolution. Human activities has rise the level of Carbon dioxide so that sun ray cannot reflects back. If we are not aware now of our activities than the people will suffer a lot after 50 years.
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