Are Human Activities to Blame for Global Warming?

Over the past half-century, a new trend of launching planetary scares has settled in our societies. Whether they are environmentally, economically or demographically related, global alerts have been very frequent, one after the other, bringing down the world in anxiety. In the late 1960s, the Malthusian catastrophe led everyone to believe the world would have to return to subsistence-level because population growth was on the edge of outpacing agricultural production. A little later, during the early and mid-1970s, following a gentle temperature drop, some scientists had the world believe it was heading for a Global Cooling, a conjecture of imminent cooling of the Earth’s surface and atmosphere along with a posited commencement of glaciation. Another type of scare, The Millennium bug, appeared during the late 1990s. Also know as “Y2K”, it foreshadowed a major problem with both digital and non-digital documentation and data storage situations, which was supposed to result from the practice of abbreviating a four-digit year to two digits.

But the latest scare has taken global awareness to another level. Global warming, as it has been named, makes the front cover of every newspaper and magazine and is the centre of international debates and agreements. Global warming is the rise in the average temperature of Earth's atmosphere and oceans since the late 19th century, and its projected continuation. Commonly confused with environmental destruction, Global Warming only refers to the climb in the temperature of the atmosphere. The general idea, which scientists claim to be sure of, is that mankind is to be blamed for this warming. They seem to believe we are the primary engine and cause of global warming. This belief, nay conviction, has been adopted by most. It is spread all over the pages of magazines, supported by quotes and encircled by scientific jargon. Yet, the vast majority of those who pronounce on the matter with a great certainty are not scientists....