Is Global Warming a scam ?

Global Warming is certainly the most underrated and underreported happening, the significance
of which is sugarcoated by the same anthropogenic idea that causes it in the first place.

Global warming is the long-term heating of Earth’s climate system observed since the pre-
industrial period (between 1850 and 1900) due to human activities, primarily fossil fuel burning,
which increases heat-trapping greenhouse gas levels in Earth’s atmosphere. The term is
frequently used interchangeably with the term climate change, though the latter refers to both
human and naturally produced warming, and the effects it has on our planet.

Since the pre-industrial period, human activities are estimated to have increased Earth’s global
average temperature by about 1 degree Celsius, a number that is currently increasing by 0.2
degrees Celsius per decade.

A global warming conspiracy theory invokes claims that the scientific consensus on global
warming is based on conspiracies to produce manipulated data or suppress dissent. It is one of a
number of tactics used in climate change denial to attempt to legitimize political and public
controversy disputing this consensus.

According to the IPBES (Inter-Governmental Science Policy Platform for Biodiversity and
Ecosystem Services) Global Assessment Report, 2019, which is an 1800 paged report based on
more than 1500 academic papers, compiled by United Nations agency, ‘World’s life support
systems are in trouble’.

Human activities are changing the natural greenhouse on Earth. Over the last century, the
burning of fossil fuels like coal and oil has increased the concentration of atmospheric carbon
dioxide (CO2). This happens because the coal or oil burning process combines carbon with
oxygen in the air to make CO2. To a lesser extent, the clearing of land for agriculture, industry,
and other human activities has increased concentrations of greenhouse gases.

The consequences of changing the natural atmospheric greenhouse are difficult to predict, but
certain effects seem likely :

On average, Earth will become warmer. Some regions may welcome warmer temperatures, but
others may not.
Warmer conditions will probably lead to more evaporation and precipitation overall, but
individual regions will vary, some becoming wetter and others dryer.

A stronger greenhouse effect will warm the oceans and partially melt glaciers and other ice,
increasing sea level. Ocean water also will expand if it warms, contributing further to sea level
rise.

Meanwhile, some crops and other plants may respond favorably to increased atmospheric CO2,
growing more vigorously and using water more efficiently. At the same time, higher
temperatures and shifting climate patterns may change the areas where crops grow best and
affect the makeup of natural plant communities.

In its Fifth Assessment Report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of
1,300 independent scientific experts from countries all over the world under the auspices of the
United Nations, concluded there's a more than 95 percent probability that human activities over
the past 50 years have warmed our planet.

The industrial activities that our modern civilization depends upon have raised atmospheric
carbon dioxide levels from 280 parts per million to 412 parts per million in the last 150 years.
The panel also concluded there's a better than 95 percent probability that human-produced
greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide have caused much of the
observed increase in Earth's temperatures over the past 50 years.

As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change puts it, ‘Scientific evidence for warming of
the climate system is unequivocal.’ Following are some of the compelling evidences that support
this statement :

1. Ocean Acidification - Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the acidity of
surface ocean waters has increased by about 30 percent. This increase is the result of
humans emitting more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and hence more being
absorbed into the oceans.
2. Declining Arctic Sea Ice - Both the extent and thickness of Arctic sea ice has declined
rapidly over the last several decades.
3. Sea Level Rise - Global sea level rose about 8 inches in the last century. The rate in the
last two decades, however, is nearly double that of the last century and is accelerating
slightly every year.
4. Decreased Snow Cover - Satellite observations reveal that the amount of spring snow
cover in the Northern Hemisphere has decreased over the past five decades and that the
snow is melting earlier.
5. Glacial Retreat - Glaciers are retreating almost everywhere around the world —
including in the Alps, Himalayas, Andes, Rockies, Alaska and Africa.
6. Shrinking Ice Sheets - The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have decreased in mass.
Data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment show Greenland lost an
average of 286 billion tons of ice per year between 1993 and 2016, while Antarctica lost
about 127 billion tons of ice per year during the same time period.
7. Warming Oceans - The oceans have absorbed much of this increased heat, with the top
700 meters of ocean showing warming of more than 0.4 degrees Fahrenheit since 1969.
8. Global Temperature Rise - The planet's average surface temperature has risen about
0.9 degrees Celsius since the late 19th century, a change driven largely by increased
carbon dioxide and other human-made emissions into the atmosphere. Most of the
warming occurred in the past 35 years, with the six warmest years on record taking place
since 2014.

Thus, global climate is projected to continue to change over this century and beyond. The
magnitude of climate change beyond the next few decades depends primarily on the
amount of heat-trapping gases emitted globally, and how sensitive the Earth’s climate is
to those emissions.
Since human-induced warming is superimposed on a naturally varying climate, the
temperature rise has not been, and will not be, uniform or smooth across the countries or
over time.
Further, global sea level has risen by about 8 inches since reliable record keeping began
in 1880. It is projected to rise another 1 to 8 feet by 2100. This is the result of added
water from melting land ice and the expansion of seawater as it warms.
In the next several decades, storm surges and high tides could combine with sea level rise
and land subsidence to further increase flooding in many regions. Sea level rise will
continue past 2100 because the oceans take a very long time to respond to warmer
conditions at the Earth’s surface. Ocean waters will therefore continue to warm and sea
level will continue to rise for many centuries at rates equal to or higher than those of the
current century.
And hence, I rest my case with a grave concern for the irreversible adversity that global
warming poses for the good green Earth.