Note: this is just an example of a past paper. It does not mean that the paper is perfect. For example, the references are not following the required format. The general rule is if a statement is not general knowledge, the source should be referenced and listed in the order it appears in the text. In this case, on p. 1, the US EPA should have (1) at the end of the sentence, and the source of the definition should be cited and listed as (1) in References on p. 5. Bioethics Paper Topic #: XX Student Name: XX Section #: XX Fall semester, 2020 Date: XX 1 Global warming has been a huge complicated issue over the recent years with controversies and debates between two opposing groups. One group consists of individuals who value the need to resolve the issue as they see global warming as a threat. Another group consists of individuals who view global warming as a scam supported by inaccurate data. Global warming is the rise of the earth’s average temperature due to the increased emissions of greenhouse gases; a definition given of global warming by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Global warming supporters such as the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations) have a data collection of both the rising trend of global temperature of earth since the year 1880. However, those that are against global warming have their own arguments as they assert that Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies have indicated that December 2007 to November 2008 recorded the coolest year since year 2000. The conclusion of the global warming issue is still pending. However, more profound and abundant data from the supporters of global warming allows me to be convinced that global warming is indeed a threat and a resolution needs to be generated quickly before our environment and its organisms are completely destroyed. One of the main arguments of global warming involves the topic of the average temperature of the earth. According to the temperatures presented by the NOAA, the temperature of the land on earth was -0.05°C below the average global temperature of 14°C in 1880. But around 1935, the earth’s temperature was +0.03 °C and from here on, the global temperature only started to increase. In 2012, the most recent recorded global temperature was +1.12 of the average global land temperature, resulting as 15.12 °C. Groups supporting global warming states that the increased global temperature is caused by a greenhouse gas called carbon dioxide (CO2). CO2 thwarts the heat from the sun to exit out through the earth’s atmosphere. Because the heat cannot be released, many regions of the earth are faced with unfamiliar climate changes, a rise of 2 sea level due to the melting of the ice caps, which causes island based nations to sink, new diseases by entrapping our air with pollutants, former species becoming extinct and many more negative results. Although evidences of the earth’s rising temperature were presented, groups against global warming weren’t convinced. One of their main arguments against the rising temperature was an analysis by the Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies of the surface air temperature. This institute has stated that December of 2007 to November of 2008 recorded the coolest year since 2000. Due to this analysis, many against global warming are claiming that the rising temperature data by the NOAA is inaccurate due to its measure of data from a surface level weather station rather than from a temperature measuring satellite. Groups for global warming have admitted that there was a major difference between the temperature readings of the surface level stations and that of the satellites. But now, they claim that the satellite now measures the temperature at the lower atmospheric level therefore the temperature measurements are now very similar (Totty). In conclusion, the arguments regarding the increased global temperature made by those against global warming have been nullified. Through the greater evidences and claims provided by the supporters of global warming, they have convinced me enough to also see global warming as a genuine threat. I can clearly see that global warming is present and it has also personally affected my life. I still have many relatives in South Korea. And every summer, they go through a heavy typhoon season. However, since the year 2007, the typhoon season became worse over the years. Currently, S. Korea is in its annual typhoon season but this season is uniquely the worst I’ve seen. My aunt, who resides in Seoul, has a flooded home at the moment. Not only is her home flooded, but also the complex, which she runs her business, is flooded. To make the matter even worse, my cousins 3 are very sick due to the sewage water entering their home due to the over flooding of the sewers. Through the experiences I’ve felt through my aunt and her family’s suffering, my standing to support to fight for global warming is firm. As an individual, there is a limit of how much impact I can do to resolve the issues of global warming. Therefore, I am planning to join the Sustainable Works program within SMC. Through joining this program, I believe I will have a greater knowledge of providing cleaner and healthier environments to all and to inform other individuals of what I have learned. As a result, I hope to provide not only a cleaner environment for us but also for our future generations. The controversies of global warming will still continue on regardless of the abundant data presenting that our earth is indeed becoming warmer and affecting in a negative way as a result. The debate will never end, as those against global warming will continue to find faults within the data. I wish the arguments would seize as we have a limited duration of time to resolve the global warming crisis. Global warming has already reached its maximum potential of havoc and we are already at a stage where it is very difficult to recover from. However, if we do not globally decide to resolve the global warming crisis, I’m afraid we will be at a stage where it will be impossible to recover from. 4 Reference "Global Warming & Climate Change." Global Warming- Science. Ed. The New York Times. The New York Times, 27 June 2012. Web. 03 July 2012. http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science/topics/globalwarming/index.html "State of the ClimateGlobal AnalysisMay 2012." State of the Climate. Ed. NCDC. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Climatic Data Center, May 2012. Web. 03 July 2012. http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/2012/5 Gillis, Justin. "Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions in 2010 Show the Biggest Jump Ever Recorded." The New York Times. The New York Times, 05 Dec. 2011. Web. 03 July 2012. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/05/science/earth/record-jump-in-emissions-in-2010-studyfinds.html?_r=2 Biello, David. "10 Solutions for Climate Change: Scientific American." 10 Solutions for Climate Change: Scientific American. Scientific American, 26 Nov. 2007. Web. 03 July 2012. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=10-solutions-for-climate-change Nordhaus, William. "Why the Global Warming Skeptics Are Wrong." Why the Global Warming Skeptics Are Wrong by William D. Nordhaus. The New York Review of Books, n.d. Web. 03 July 2012. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/mar/22/why-global-warmingskeptics-are-wrong/?pagination=false Totty, Michael. "What Global Warming?" What Global Warming? N.p., 6 Dec. 2009. Web. 13 July 2012. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703819904574551303527570212.html 5
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