The world's leading scientists agree - global warming is real and already occurring. The questions now are how fast will it occur - and how bad will it be.
Population growth is one of the factors contributing to global warming.
Concurrently, global warming could be disastrous for much of the earth's population. If we don't act now to cut the pollution causing global warming, we probably won't like the results. The coal and oil that have fueled the growth of industrialized countries have also fueled the warming of the Earth. Developing countries, especially those with rapid population growth, promise to worsen this problem as they too develop, using the model of wasteful, energy-intensive Western economies. There is no debate now over whether humans are changing the composition of the Earth's atmosphere.