5/4/3/2/1 NOTES # 6

5)*John Carlisle contends that the global temperature increase of 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit over the last 150 years has been caused by natural fluctuations in the Earth's temperature and has not been the result of human activity.

*The Clinton administration and its environmental allies wanted Congress to ratify a treaty that will hike consumer prices 40 percent and cost the American Economy $3.3 trillion over 20 years.

*The planet's temperature is constantly rising and falling to put the current warming trend in perspective.

*A glaciation cycle is typically characterized by 90,000 years of cooling, an ice age, followed by an abrupt warming period, called an interglacial, which lasts 10,000-12,000 years.

*Earth is currently in a warm interglacial called the Holocene that began 10,700 years ago.

4) *What natural fluctuations cause the temperature increase?

*Would the Clinton's treaty affect the people's economy?

*How does the earth control its temperature rising and falling?

*How do the scientist know about very ancient temperatures?

3)*interglacial: a warm period between glacial epochs.

*Distress: agony.

*Furthermore: in addition.

2) *Imagery: the reading describes the last little ice age in which enormous migrations occurred when massive quantities of people moved from Greenland and Iceland, so I can imagine the mobs of people moving just like the migration of guise every winter.

*Variety: Finally a different point of view other than man-made global warming. This time, the author John Carlisle attributes global warming to earth's fluctuations.

1) This time, in Point of view number 2 of chapter 2, a new Topic is brought to the different explanations of causes of global warming. The earth's fluctuations could be another cause of global warming, not human beings. According to John Carlisle the earth experiments this changes every 90,000 years, this is known as glaciation/ ice age. When the earth gets heat up, it is called Interglacial, which lasts 10,000-12,000 years. To defend his opinion, John says that this interglacial period helps the plantations to develop better as it already did in the Middle Ages when trade was happening with the West Indies and the rest of the world.