Records show that the average temperature of the planet is climbing rapidly. Climate researchers predict the Earth's temperature will continue to rise over the next one hundred years. Scientists believe this global warming is human-generated. Warmer temperatures may lead to severe droughts and floods in some places. Animal species may not be able to survive. Vegetation will not adapt fast enough to find new habitats when heat encroaches its existing homes. Widespread famine will result in numerous deaths. Natural disasters will be as plentiful as rain. Global catastrophe is eminent. We are all going to die. Run, Chicken Little, the sky is falling!

We have all heard the horror story of global warming, some of us so much that by now it seems only a fanciful tale imposed upon the world by radical environmentalists. Despite what little evidence we see of global warming in our day-to-day lives, it is a major issue in today's society. The leaders of hundreds of countries have met to discuss the problem and what is to be done about it in the future. Air emissions regulations have been put into place in many countries to reduce to the amount of CO2 being released into the atmosphere. Thousan

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Having ruled out the likelihood of human-induced climate change, we should now look at the possibility of global warming itself posing a threat to the Earth, and of what importance this problem may be. In a study by Goklany (2000), the author "examines the validity of the assertion that anthropogenic climate change is the overriding environmental concern facing the globe today," by looking at recent trends in different climate-sensitive phenomena, including global death rates due to parasitic diseases and infection, deaths in the United States due to storms and floods, global food security, and the biomass of northern forests. The author then evaluated the estimated global impact of global warming on deforestation, biodiversity, food security, and human health years in the future, based on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 1995 Impact Assessment. The author found that over the next few decades, the climate-sensitive phenomena examined will be of a much smaller magnitude of importance than those phenomena due to other stressors of society, such as population growth, poverty, land conversion, and rates of infections and parasitic diseases not relating to the climate. The author declared that "eliminating anthropogenic climate change, even if feasible, would - for the next several decades - do little to reduce the much larger baseline rates of global deforestation, biodiversity loss, and infectious and parasitic diseases." Therefore, the author concludes that climate change "

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