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“Global cooling is both more likely and more likely to have more disastrous effects than global warming”. Discuss.
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"Global cooling is both more likely and more likely to have more disastrous effects than global warming". Discuss. Scientists for a long time have been predicting vast and rapid global warming, many of these predictions have not materialised, at least not on the same scale as was first predicted. When considered on a time scale of many thousands of years, the earth should be going into a cold period in its natural cycle of climatic change. The question is what effect is the global warming having on this? Moreover, is it actually detrimental at all? Global warming has been predicted on the basis that throughout history temperature and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have been directly linked. It is not known which causes which, but, carbon dioxide emissions have increased rapidly in the last century or so. Could this increase cause a rise in temperature? The theory behind global warming is that...
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