Take+a+stand+on+Climate+Change

(list your groups decision and evidence to support it
 * Group Members ||~ "Take a stand" and Post Your Group's " Final Thoughts"

||~  ||  Alfred and I believe that we as humans can affect climate change, based on numerous pieces of evidence. There are many factors influencing the controversy that lies behind this issue. We think that climate definitely has been changing and temperatures have increased over the past hundreds to thousands of years due to factors such as; corals, tree rings, and graphs are all used to see average temperature increases over time. Ocean water temperatures have increased; eco-system changes, beds break, rivers freeze, and spacial changes all affect the climate. The earth has been increasing in temperature an average of 1 degree each year. The shrinkage of glaciers and ice on the ground have made the sea level rise and become warmer at least 17 cm during the past 100 years. Ice sheets shrinking, Artic Sea Ice declining, glaciers retreating and extreme events all influence this dramatic climate change. Most importantly, the increased CO2 emissions as shown in this graph [] have greatly influenced climate as well. ||
 * Jack and Jill (Example) || **Jill and I believe that we humans can affect climate change!** Back in the day, we only had to go up the hill 1 time a day to fetch a pail of water. Because of the increase of CO2 emisions by 50% in the last 100 years, mostly from the factories and emissions from the internal combustion engine (cars, busses, trains, etc). and the 45 gallons of methane gas each cow is belching up, every day, the Earth is warming up! Now, since the amount of rain has decreased near our hill by 50% in the last 100 years and the groundwater in the well has been dropping by 5 meters every year for the last 10 years, we have to go to the hill twice a day to fetch a pail of water and we need a longer rope to get the bucket all the way down to the water in the well. - Jack ||
 * Stacey and Alfred || 
 * Ryan and Megan ||  ||
 * Frankie, Silviu and Partick ||  ||
 * Alex and Danny ||  ||
 * Rita and Ivan || Ivan and I believe that humans cannot affect global warming as much as natural disasters and a sudden change in climate can. Studies have shown that some data might be exaggerated. According to Piers Corbyn (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6zSLQA-BrY), he explains how everyone is on the climate hysteria bandwagon. All these graphs that people are showing to say that global warming is getting worse are just trying to collect money for other uses. Science shows that carbon dioxide does not affect temperatures, most of the problems involved with global warming are from disasters or sudden changes in climate. ||
 * Adriana and Matt || Matt and I believe that the Cons in the arument were a bit stronger and more believable. We were originally given the Pros in the argument, but the facts and evidence that the cons gave us, made us believe otherwise. The atmosphere coole by 0.88 degrees over the past 50 years. This means that the weather and temperature aren't melting ice caps or glaciers to cause global warming. Also during the past 3,000 years, there have been 5 extended peiods when Earth was hotter than recent time. This made us believe that the graphs that are shown to make people aware how the weather is going to change in the next 10, 15, 20 years, are sometimes not accurate. These are the main reasons to believe that global warming isn't mainly due on human activity. ||
 * Kevork and Hardik || We both agree that global warming is a real issue to tackle and we need to take serious step to fight it. Greenhouse gases increases the temperature by 91 degree Fahrenheit. Over the last 200 years the human activities have resulted to earth's rising temperature, which changes the climate. National Research Council (NRC) confirms that earth is warming at a sharply fast rate in the last 20 years than in previous decades. As scientist study the temperature in oceans have warmed significantly over past four decades also providing the evidence that earth maybe going to long-term climate changes. If you are still not convinced by the arguments look around you will see changes in recent climate from past years. For more information please visit http://www.globalwarming.org/. ||
 * John Carlos, Eman and Eric ||  ||
 * Sumi and Laksmi || Cons had a good argument that global warming is not a serious thing. They indicated that cardon dioxide does not drive tempeture or storms. They also said like the Little Ice Age and the Medieval Warming, it is just a cycle of Earth. Also they believe that scientists are exaggerating to get more money and recognition. In which scares the public and everybody just follows along. BUT Laksmi and I believe that people are the ones affecting global warming. Data shows that increase in unnatural greenhouse gases, which we are causing, increases tempeture. Also the nine hottest years in the times of cooling were recorded. With our new inventions, aerosols and car pollution are affecting the ozone and making it weaker. The weaker the ozone layer gets, the more sunlight it lets into the Earth causing the Earth to get warmer and warmer. You can see that the Earth is getting warmer. Just look around! Glaciers are melting and great natural environment like the Artic are disappearing. ||
 * Jessica and Cassidy ||  ||
 * Joana Espinoza ||  ||
 * Eoana Ginnakopoulos ||  ||   ||