Global+Warming

Inconvenient Truth

1. What is the most predominant "greenhouse gas" 2. What are the major sources of greenhouse gases? 3. What country produces more greenhouse gases than any other? Why do you think that is? 4. List at least two glaciers worldwide that have melted significantly in the last century. 5. Which area supplies drinking water (from glacial melt water) to 40% of Earth’s human population? 6. What was the hottest recorded year? 7. Why should we worry about higher ocean temperatures? 8. What does global warming do to global precipitation patterns? 9. What are the two areas Gore says are Earth’s “canary in a coal mine?”

Academic 1. Is there a debate about the link between human’s fossil fuel burning and global warming in the scientific literature? 2. Is there a debate about the link between human’s fossil fuel burning and global warming in the popular press? 3 Why is there a discrepancy between the scientific literature and the popular press?