Scientific Reasoning

Omari Matthew

Scientific Reasoning

In a world where people do not believe everything that is thrown at them, scientific reasoning is one of the only ways to change fiction to fact. The world is heading towards catastrophic destruction due to the every growing threat known as Global Warming. Global Warming is the result dense atmosphere (caused by gases like CO2 and Methane) coupled with the sun’s constant rays. Global Warming’s growth has been carefully charted and graphed by many reports, scientists, and politicians’ world wide.

According to the Elizabeth Kolbert’s, a reporter for the New Yorker, article “The Climate Man-II” one of the main causes for global warming is the increasing carbon emissions from factories. “Carbon Dioxide levels will probably reach 500 parts per million-nearly double the pre-industrial era- sometime around the middle of the century” (Kolbert, Elizabeth, “The Climate Man-II”, The New Yorker, May 2^nd 2005). According to Wikipedia, during 2009 the amount of carbon in the earth’s atmosphere went above the 380 mark Because of the increasing amount of CO2, global warming’s green house affect is melting ice around the world. According to David Guggenheim’s film An Incontinent truth a glacier in Argentina, picture taken in 1928, has nearly melted away in 2005.

This ice melting is a direct result of global warming and climate change, and an explanation of it. According to David Guggenheim’s film, when sun’s energy hits the earth 90% of it is reflected by ice, but because the ice is melting the energy is not being reflected. As it hits the water 90% of the energy is being absorbed, so more heat is staying within the earth (according to Guggenheim). As more heat is absorbed, summers become hotter; and more ice begins to melt. This is the direct result climate change, and the reasoning behind it is the difference in absorption energy between ice and water.

Global Warming’s scientific reasoning is behind the world’s CO2 emission, which is directly proved through the amount, ppm, of CO2 in the atmosphere today. Its effects, which prove the scientific reasoning, are also evident in areas around the world. For example, on July 6^th 2004 Mumbai suffered from a massive flood. The Flood not only took away a lot of money from Mumbai, but also a large amount of lives. Global warming is a large problem, but if the world could use the scientific data to their advantage the world could probably find it’s way out of this conundrum.

An Inconvenient Truth. Dir. Davis Guggenheim. Perf. Al Gore. DVD. Paramount, 2005.

Maslin, Mark. Global Warming: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions). New York: Oxford University Press, USA, 2008.

Kolbert, Elizabeth, “The Climate Man-II”, The New Yorker, May 2^nd 2005