Global_Warming

Global Warming Just the beginning of a coming calamity’, global warming, the rise in the average surface temperature of the planet, has been a controversial topic for the past several decades. Many scientists have portrayed it as the end of our world, a doomsday, predicting that unnatural increases in greenhouse gases will contribute to drastic temperature increases over the next century, while many corporations have tried to deny allegations that greenhouse gases are the main cause of this. However, members of each group see both sides of the issue. Richard S. Lindzen, a professor of meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology points out that the fact that the Earth’s average surface temperature is fifteen degrees centigrade instead of minus eighteen degrees centigrade is due to the greenhouse effect. He also downplays the role of humans in this effect. He claims that over 98 percent of the current greenhouse effect would remain due to vapor and clouds even if all other greenhouse gases disappeared. While he admits to the increase in greenhouse gases, he questions if those increases will continue uniformly. He suggests a rise of greenhouse, gases, increases, effect, world, temperature, rise, over, occur, even, degrees, centigrade, while, surface, scientists, remain, planet, next, need, increased, flooding, few, end, emission, effects, due, deeper, current, coastal, claims, cause, both, average, zeroes, yields, years