New Studies Indicate Man-Made Global Warming Is Causing Disasters

Recent studies on the effects of global warming have turned up some alarming evidence showing that man-made chemicals and greenhouse gases are wrecking havoc on world climates and weather. These studies have shown the effects of global warming on the Larsen B ice shelf in Antartica, the rising temperature in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and the related issue of an increase in the strength of hurricanes.

The Larsen B ice shelf in Antartica is falling to pieces, breaking up and drifting away. And a recently study done by the British Antartic Survey team has concluded that this is a direct result of human activity.

Warmer air current and stronger gusts of winds are causing the Larsen B ice shelf to melt and break apart, sliding into the ocean. The British and Belgian scientists involved in this study have attributed this phenomenon to the deterioration of the ozone layer over the Antartic due to an accumulation of man-made chemicals. Global warming caused by greenhouse gases--mainly the increase of carbon dioxide, a byproduct of the burning of fossil fuel--is believed to be another major culprit.

In a seperate study done by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution of Connecticut, over 7700 square miles of ice has melted in the Artic between 1965 and 1995.

Just as worryingly, a new study has found that the temperature of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans has been steadily increasing, and that natural influence alone could not account for it. In fact, one study stated that there was an 82% chance that the warming of the ocean was due to human activity in the form of greenhouse gas emissions.

Since hurricanes gain strength from warm sea water, man-made global warming is quite possibly already causing natural disasters. A number of scientific studies have been published which point to the fact that hurricanes have been growing in strength since the 1970s and that the amount of increase in their strength does not coincide with a naturally occuring cycle.

So next time someone tries to tell you that global warming is a hoax, or that even if it is occurring, it's natural and nothing to worry about, remember the words of one scientist studying the phenomenom of global warming causing stronger hurricanes, "[The amount of increased strength] is so big--too big to ignore. For the first time in my professional career, I got alarmed."