WS Global Warming

WS – Global Warming NAME

1. Describe in your own words the Greenhouse Effect:

2. List 3 greenhouse gases:

3. What is anthropogenic global warming?

4. List three things humans do that produce CO2 on a large scale (breathing is NOT one of them)?

5. Global warming (GW) believers (Al Gore, etc…) say the Earth’s ground temperature are rising and will continue to rise by 2-4°C if we let CO2 levels double. What do the global warming skeptics say?

6. GW believers say that human-generated CO2 is the primary cause of global warming. What do the GW skeptics say is the primary cause of global warming?

7. GW believers invoke the “precautionary principle” – the idea that it can’t hurt to limit greenhouse gas emissions just in case they are causing global warming, for example, by signing the Kyoto Accord. What do the GW skeptics say?

8. How did Al Gore use ice core data to back his arguments? How did the GW skeptics use the same data to back their arguments?

9. The GW believers argue that ice masses are shrinking in the Arctic, Antarctic, and Greenland. What do the GW skeptics say?

10. In your opinion, what was the most important argument/evidence made by Al Gore in AIT?

11. In your opinion, what was the most important argument/evidence made by the GW skeptics in GGWS?

12. What do you think about

(a) the Greenhouse Effect?

(b) whether global warming is happening?

(c) the cause of global warming?
13. From memory, list 10 pieces of specific evidence that was presented in the two DVD’s. Start with the most important evidence first. List counterarguments side by side.

An Inconvenient Truth The Great Global Warming Swindle