Kyoto and Gl. Warm. Theory Should be Abandoned Unless Impact on Environment is Objectively Proven

1)Not all regions are expected to warm or warm at the same rate due to several factors. The main factor being melting use cooling ocean currents and therefore cooling land areas by the ocean. I also like to point out that even your source says that greenhouse gasses warm up the earth. 2)Yes the earth has gone through warming and cooling periods before in the past, however this is irrelevant given that today's current warming isn't due to "natural" causes but instead by human activities. 3) As I mentioned in number 1. Some areas are expected to cool due to the melting of ice cooling ocean currents. The earth as a whole has been warming steadily for decades now with the 10 hottest years ever recorded occurring since 1998. http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov... http://data.giss.nasa.gov... 4)Total ice volume in the articcs has been steadily decreasing for decades now; ice levels have decreased by 81% since 1980. http://thinkprogress.org... 5)A climate model set up in the mid 70's has accurately predicted earth's temperature for the past 30 years, given that this was done 30 years ago it can be said that current models would be even better at predicting warming trends. http://thinkprogress.org... 6)My opponent is not correct. If every country lowered greenhouse gas emissions to 5% below 1990 levels then that effect alone would eventually result in a 0.4 degrees Celsius fall in temperatures which is a significant sum (I will go into the ill-effects of greenhouse gasses and global warming/climate change later in my post) 7)My opponent claims that deforestation is not contributing to global warming; this claim by my opponent is entirely false. Deforestation results in forest soaking up less Carbon and therefore resulting in higher Carbon concentrations. Around 25% of the warming trend attributed to Carbon 8)can be attributed to deforestation. http://www.fao.org... 9)Sea levels have been steady rising for the past 130 years. http://upload.wikimedia.org... Now I will list the effects of climate change/global warming/greenhouse gas emissions and its estimated costs to the world (estimates are rough) 10)Tropical storms have increased by 100% due to global warming. This results in 6,000 more deaths and 60 billion more in damages each year. http://www.newscientist.com... http://www.undp.org... http://nordhaus.econ.yale.edu... 11)Droughts have increased by 300% since 1970 due to global warming, this results in 23,000 extra deaths and 45 billion in lost economic growth each year. http://www.ens-newswire.com... http://www.ucar.edu... http://www.wateryear2003.org... 12)Floods have increased by 500% resulting in 20,000 extra deaths and around 45 billion in damages each year. http://maps.grida.no... http://unesdoc.unesco.org... Decreased crop yields. Due to climate change corn, wheat, soy, rice and muscle yields have decreased costing more than 60 billion dollars in 2009 alone. http://www.agricommodityprices.com... http://www.soyatech.com... http://www.sciencenews.org... http://www.sciencedaily.com... http://www.google.com... 13)Other effects of climate change is an increase in tornadoes, wild fires, heat waves, winter storms, a decrease in fish populations due to increasing the acidity of bodies of water, and a decrease In the protective Ozone laywer. 14)There are also many negative health effects that are caused primarily by Carbon and other greenhouse gas emissions. For example this includes but does not exclude increases in cancer, autism, lung diseases, hay fever, decreases in IQ, obesity, diabetes, heart diseases, and an increase in malaria and other mosquito transported diseases. When you include all the negative health/environmental effects of greenhouse gas emissions one finds that coal/oil/gas cost two times MORE than clean alternatives such as wind and solar. http://thinkprogress.org... http://thinkprogress.org... http://www.reuters.com...