Background Information

While most scientists agree that global warming (GW) is occurring, there is no consensus on what is causing it. Is it part of an natural global warming cylce or has mankind "helped" it along in a significant way? There lies the debate. You will attempt to unravel this issue by ultimately answering the following question:

Are humans a significant contributor to the global warming effect?


Objectives

Remember yours will be a quest for a well-supported and logical answers. Links provided will get you started as they present arguments from supporters (of GW) and skeptics.

The powerpoint show below will give you some idea of what you should be striving for while the accompanying rubric identifies the grading parameters.


Humans are the Primary Source of GW

  1. Introduction to Global Warming (1,2,3,4,5)
  2. Cool Antarctica (6,10)
  3. Facts and Our Future (7)
  4. Each Countries Share of Emitted CO2 (8,9)
  5. Global Warming - NRDC (11)
  6. Things We Can Do (12)

Natural Climate Changes are the Primary Source of GW

  1. Junk Science: The Real Inconvenient Truth (1,3)
  2. The Cost of Global Warming Alarmism (2)
  3. The 30% Fraud (4)
  4. The 41% Fraud (5)
  5. Oceans Rising (6,7)
  6. Science is Broken - Read at Your Own Risk
  7. Fraud in Science
  8. Why Care About Global Warming

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