Introduction
Global warming, as used in the popular context, is a scientifically controversial phenomenon that attributes an increase in the average annual surface temperature of Earth to increased atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and other gases. Global warming describes only one of several components involved in climate change and specifically refers to a warming of Earth's surface outside of the range of normal fluctuations that have occurred throughout Earth's history. One problem in reaching a scientific consensus regarding global warming is that the data used in many models is neither global nor a result of high-reliance systematic scientific measurement (i.e., that it generally neglects oceans and vast uninhabited areas). Other problems involve forming an accurate articulation of the interplay of global surface warming phenomena that include thermal conduction, greenhouse radiation, and convective currents. Most scientists agree, however, that an enhanced greenhouse effect will result in some degree of global warming. -- About Global Warming
Recommended Resources
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- Articles
- Cooling the global-warming debate. - Reason
- Global warming & you: this Earth Day, the focus is on climate change. How is it affecting the U.S., and what can you do to help reverse it? - Junior Scholastic
- Global warming and Africa. - African Business
- Global warming and religious stick fighting. - Cross Currents
- Global warming and scepticism. - Quadrant
- Global warming deaths rise. - Australian Nursing Journal
- Global Warming. - Junior Scholastic
- Global warming. - Quadrant
- Global warming: What is global warming--and how can we slow it? (USA/Environment). - Junior Scholastic
- Hot topic: you can't miss the buzz about global warming. - Planning
- International Panel Warns of Global Warming: Salem on History
- Michael Crichton on "global warming". - National Observer - Australia and World Affairs
- Tackling global warming: address deforestation. - African Business
- The United Nations Creates a Panel to Study Climate Change: Salem on History
- Films
- Al Gore: An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming. - The Horn Book Magazine
- An Inconvenient Truth. - Cineaste
- Other
- Alternative Energy Sources: Encyclopedia of Science
- Earth, Planet: World of Earth Science
- Environmental Pollution: World of Earth Science
- Global Warming: Encyclopedia of Business
- Greenhouse Effect: Encyclopedia of Science
- Is The World Actually Getting Warmer? - Science Fact Finder
- The Environment - 1990's Science and Technology
- Overview
