5/4/3/2/1 NOTES # 1 "GLOBAL WARMING" Opposing Viewpoints

5) *The global warming hypothesis made in 1896 established that carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels would cause global temperatures to raise by trapping excess heat in the Earth's atmosphere.

*The theory was based on greenhouse effect, which is the trapping of heat on the Earth, by gases that human beings release. Those gases cover the atmosphere become a blanket for the planet that let the heat come in but it does not let it go completely.

*If the greenhouse were not stopped soon, the Earth would be sentenced to a perpetual ice age.

*According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide has increased by 31 percent, methane by 151 percent, and nitrous oxide by 17 percent since 1750.

*Also according to the IPCC global temperature has increased close to 0.5 degrees Centigrade, the largest temperature increasing of any century during the past one thousand years.

4) *What is the annual increase of temperature on Earth?

*Who discovered the global warming first?

*In what year was Global Warming first discovered?

*What are some of the actions taken by governments that are truly being applied?

3)*plummet: to crash down.

*Correlation: a relationship.

*Stemming: coming from.

2) *Exposition: the theme of the book is being explained throughout the first viewpoint of the first topic.

*Allusion: at the beginning of the viewpoint, the author uses a quote from the United States Environmental Protection Agency to start the chapter with, and like that support his opinion or the person's opinion.



1) *In this view point of the first topic is explained, which is the global warming causes and consequences. One of the major causes of global warming is the burning of fossil fuels such as petroleum, and coal. The effect of the burning of fossil fuels is that they produce gases that provoke the greenhouse effect, or better know as the Earth's blanket, keeping the heat from going out of the atmosphere and this provokes the melting of enormous glaciers.