This morning I was flicking through the BBC News website and
I came across an article titled ‘Concentrations of warming gases break record’.
I read through it and wasn’t surprised to find that according to the World
Meteorological Organization (WMO), atmospheric CO2 grew more rapidly
last year (2012) than its average rise over the past decade. To be exact, the
amount grew by 2.2ppm (parts per million) in a year, which may not sound like a
lot but is a significant step to make in just a year.
Then it struck me that people are told by the media that gas
emissions are increasing and this will cause global warming and the ice caps
will melt etc etc, but the question I want to know is what do people really
know about global warming?
For
instance, do people know that global warming is a completely natural thing and
it has happened regularly in the recent past?
Its true! Historical evidence of the natural cycle includes a
record of floods on the Nile going back 5,000 years, Roman wine production in
Britain in the first century AD and thousands of museum paintings that portray
sunnier skies during what is called the Medieval Warming. The Mail online did
an article on this (and many other newspapers, articles and programmes have
too!) which can be found at the address here for an example:
So don’t spend your life worrying about whether global
warming and climate change is going to ruin it because it has happened in the
past, will happen in the future and humans have and will adapt to it through
time.
There have been many many scientific journals written about
global warming and climate change, so if you are interested in finding out more
just type it into google. But remember that there are conflicting views about
whether global warming is even real so think about who is writing the article/story
and why before taking information as fact.
Happy reading!
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