The Debate on Global Warming is an Unfortunate Casualty of Economics

The debate over whether global warming is real and whether humans are a major cause has already been settled in the scientific community. Over 97 percent of all published climatologists agree that there has been a significant warming trend around the globe in the past twenty years. Couple this with the fact that there is no major scientific body recognized on an international level that disputes the reality of global warming. So why do we keep hearing about the global warming debate? Interest ...more

Is Global Warming a Hoax?

There has been a lot of debate in the United States as to the legitimacy of global warming. On one side are 97 percent of all climatologists and on the other are those that call the entire theory an overblown misinterpretation of a small amount of scientific data. So is global warming a hoax perpetrated on the people of the world by the entire scientific community or is the opposition propping up pseudoscientific theories in an attempt to debunk climatologists with a hoax of their own? Before ...more

Interesting Facts About Global Warming

Global warming is also known as climate change. It is caused by the excessive build-up of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane. While having some greenhouse gases accumulated in the atmosphere is important to the survival of life on Earth, an excess amount of greenhouse gases prevents the escape of heat from our atmosphere into outer space. This disrupts the natural order of things and results in the phenomenon known as global warming. Unfortunately, global warming causes a host o ...more

What is Global Warming?

Global warming occurs when the temperature of the earth's oceans and atmosphere increase as a result of equally rising levels of greenhouse gases, particularly Carbon Dioxide (CO2), brought about largely by human activity. This increase in temperature, even by a few degrees, will have permanent and significant consequences for humans and the planet over the next hundreds or even thousands of years. Data projections made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) show that within ...more