In the year 2000, an international panel of eleven climate experts conducted a nine month study on the evidence of global climate change. After this period of carful consideration, the panel finally agreed that global climate change is an existing phenomenon however, whether or not the blame could be placed on human activity was a subject of a controversial nature. The argument of who is to blame for global warming is on going and in all likeliness will continue until the opportunity to make a change and reverse it has passed.

The warmest years on record have occurred since 1998 with the warmest being 2005. Because of this rise in global temperature, Glaciers worldwide lost an average of about 5 feet of ice in 2006, compared to just 1 foot of ice lost in 2005. Melting glaciers are a major factor in sea-level rise around the world which will result in the loss of habitable land worldwide as the seas flood some of the world’s most populous areas. The deaths of over 150, 000 people have been blamed on global climate change by the world health organization. These are just some facts that are the results of the rising temperature of our planet. Proof of these facts is an easy thing to acquire. One must simply look around because there are many effects of global warming that are a daily experience for most people.

Even with multiple sources for evidence, there are still a multitude of those nay Sayers and even those who deny that global climate change even exists. Some attempt to debunk scientific research that millions of dollars have been invested in by claiming that it is merely an attempt scare people into reducing green house gas emissions. Many skeptics agree that climate change has yet to be proven. There are claims that the rise in CO2 in the atmosphere is a result of the rise in temperature not the reverse that studies are showing.

My opinion to the arguments of skeptics is that the effects of Climate change are seen everyday and to deny that it is a real occurrence is a ludicrous argument. We see the results of human activity on our planet on a daily basis and very few of these effects are of a positive nature.