Rendering: 'Global Climate Change - In the News Again!'

The article 'Global Climate Change - In the News Again!' was published by Jason Haraldsen in Huff Post Science on October 15, and it discusses the problem of global warming and the ways of its splution.

  Though there are different opinions on this problem, as some scientists claim it is a result of changing ocean currents due to global warming in combination with cooling due to the hole in the ozone layer; the opposition claims that it is evidence that global warming is a fraud; the author suggests that while the local temperature at the Antarctic is cooler, the average global temperature is rising.

  Speaking on global warming, it's necessary to note that its studies have predicted for many years that the earth will experience dramatic changes in climate. This means that some places will get cooler and some will get hotter due to changes in the air and ocean currents. It has also been predicted that the earth will have more dramatic shifts in summer heat and winter cold, which have also been noted throughout the past decade.

 Analyzing the situation of climate change, it's necessary to emphasize that the author focuses on the history of temperatures and CO2 concentration, as there is no need to look at a chart to notice that glaciers are melting and the ocean is rising.

It's an open secret that the CO2 concentration has been increasing since the industrial revolution in the late 1800s. Since global temperature and CO2 concentration are closely linked, it is simple to infer that human activity is producing a warming effect. Through the examination of ice cores, it has been shown that over the last 500,000 years the earth has gone through numerous warming and cooling cycles, where temperature and CO2 rises and falls together. The author affirms that the extra CO2 causes the temperature to increase as energy gets trapped in the earth's atmosphere via the "greenhouse effect".

  The author gives two probable variants if we want to cool off the Earth (but with the same result), as it has been suggested that changing air and ocean currents will shift the earth into a cooling cycle. The first one is if we keep pumping out CO2, but in this case the Earth will continue to heat up. The second one is we will just continue heating, as we may have by passed the trigger mechanism already.

  In conclusion the author suggests that changes in climate mean that we will have to move or adapted to colder winters and hotter summers, but there will be casualties along the way. People living on coastal regions will have to deal with more violent storms and higher sea levels. Areas that once flourished may become famished, and it is likely that cities like Amsterdam and New York will have to deal with major flooding due to raising oceans.

  I completely agree with the author that the global temperature and CO2 concentration are closely linked. As since the industrial revolution in the late 1800s humanity put a cross on its future, because every year the number of factories, and as a result hazardous waste, increase, that leads to increase of CO2 and holes in the ozone layer. The only thing that can "pump" is a plant, but because of the construction of new buildings, forests are cut down, that leads to an increase in CO2 and holes in the ozone layer. So I think there's no way to change anything.