Realization of Global Warming
Global
warming is a prime example of how scientific data can actually affect a whole
society. Everybody, including politicians, will state their view on the issue.
It’s a very political issue, and everyone wants to talk about it. We are so used to phrases like ‘greenhouse
effect,’ ‘ozone whole,’ and ‘carbon cycle’ are very common in speeches and
general conversation. However, most of us are so concerned with politics and
have lost track of the actual facts about global warming. Many scientists hope
to make the general population aware of global warming, but it has been hard.
There is a lot of data that backs up global warming (140 years of data and also
reconstruction of the last 1,000 years of weather patterns) show that the earth
is warmer now than it has been in the past millennia. The main question is: how
much of an impact have humans had on the warming of the earth. Is it our fault
alone, or is earth doing it by itself. Some people are so say that scientists
are just trying to scare people, and also state that science isn’t used to
prove global warming. The global average of warming goes from 0.5⁰ Celsius to
6⁰ Celsius. Some regions of earth will also become colder, say scientists. Global
warming could be catastrophic, and potentially cause a lot of harm to the
world. Without our atmosphere, the temperature of the earth would be about the
freezing temperature of water.
Although
it might seem that anybody studying the environment should have realized that
the earth could be affected by human pollutants, it’s not that simple. A lot of
global warming evidence isn’t a complete study. It’s bits and pieces. It takes
a certain type of researcher to actually study climate change, as they have to
go to obscure places to gather data. Global warming wasn’t discovered in one
experiment, it was the product of many different experiments over a long period
of time. Even as far back as 1896
scientists like Svante Arrhenius were commenting on how “evaporating coal
mines” into the atmosphere was having an effect on the earth. In the 1950s, two
scientists started to study carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere: one of
whom was David Keeling, a post-doctorate student as Caltech. He had been
studying the carbon dioxide levels in different areas of the country in 1955.
He loved the outdoors, and decided to work outside of the lab.
By
1958, he’d collected a huge amount of data and found that there were two
invisible carbon dioxide cycles. Another
scientist, Gilbert Plass, was researching heat-seeking missiles, and began to
study the absorption of energy by carbon dioxide. Many researchers began to
study global warming, and the decided to meet in Boulder, Colorado. The meeting
was called “Causes of Climate Change” As fuel resources began to become used at
alarming rates, the world began to feel the effects of climate change, however,
when politicians and reporters wanted a lot of answers that the scientists
didn’t have.
By the
1980s, climate change started to become a very public topic. Although one=third
of America’s population had actually heard of global warming, accurate details
haven’t been discovered yet. It was becoming more popular, and more scientists
began to make shocking discoveries. People had to face the truth that global
warming was actually happening.
1.
Important inventions are often thought of when
we think of science’s contributions to the public’s well-being. However, many
scientific ideas contribute to society as well. Without research into global
warming, we never would have known that we need to reduce our emissions. So now
we can at least try to stop global warming.
2.
Science is such a broad subject that one subject
or experiment can’t cover a whole phenomenon
We need multiple experiments to cover all of the angles of the subject
of study.
3.
If we are just working on trying to do
experiments for the benefit of society, we won’t study everything that is
available for study. The research will be on what the people want, not what
needs to be studied/done.
4.
They don’t understand that not all experiments
can be done in the lab. Some experiments can only happen if we take a more
broad experimental approach..
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