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Global Warming – Fact or Fantasy?Think about this cartoon.
What is it saying? Who might have published it? The
Big Enquiry Question: We all hear about Global Warming. The media bombard us with the doom and gloom scenarios that we are going to be living in a vastly different climate if we continue along our present lines of development. On the other hand environmentalists say that politicians red tape delays action. Purpose of the enquiry The purpose of this web enquiry is for you to assess how real the threat from global warming is, using a variety of evidence taken from a variety of different sources.
You
will need to include:
Little
questions with weblinks
What
are the possible effects of global warming? Search
the BBC web pages for a series of reports from round the world.
These might give you ideas for headlines. Search the site by typing in
‘global warming’. What
is the science of Global Warming? The
Global Climate Change Briefing Book is a start: http://www.cnie.org/NLE/CRSreports/BriefingBooks/Climate/ NASA
have produced the facts if there is such a thing! http://eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov/eos_homepage/misc_html/nasa_facts.html These
are three other starting points if you feel you need them. www.enviroweb.org/edf/
with a superb range of information www.edf.org/pubs/Brochures/GlobalWarming
www.cru.uea.ac.uk/
for graphs and data in particular www.unep.ch/iuc/submenu/infokit/factcont.htm
a global perspective What
are the views of different organisations? How
do they convince their readers that global warming is truth or not? A
balanced view representing both sides is hard to find: For
an alternative view try the capitalists corner or the skeptics net: http://newstrolls.com/news/dev/heller/col1.html http://www.skepticism.net/faq/environment/global_warming/index.html The
union of concerned scientists takes a stand too. www.ucsusa.org/warming/index.html What
is the evidence for/against the forecasts? www.heartland.org/earthday96/gwfacts.htm What
other questions do you need to answer? Think about impact on richer and
poorer countries? Tiempo
is a good source: A
good case study on Vietnam is available form the Climatic Research Unit at
the University of East Anglia, UK If
you are lacking in other information, think about keywords and use a
searcher such as:
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