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CCST9019 Assignment

Question: Which movie uses science more responsibly and why?

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Name: Liu Pik Kei, Flora

While "An inconvenient truth" emphasizes that global warming is speeded up by

the emission of carbon dioxide from human activities, "The great global warming

swindle" divulges an entirely different picture---global warming is following the

natural change in climate on earth. Despite the important role of science in

contributing to both arguments, an inconvenient truth no doubt demonstrates a

more responsible, and hence more convincing use of scientific knowledge. In regard

to explaining of the phenomenon of global warming, it is essential that science

echoes with what we see, what we feel, and what we do at the moment.

First and foremost, with respect to the escalating global temperature in recent

years, scientists in "An inconvenience truth" have attributed it to the greenhouse

effect. It refers to how the solar radiation from the sun is trapped in the earth's

atmosphere by the presence of more carbon dioxide, with the help from

experimental evidence. As opposed to what we predicts from greenhouse effect,

"The great global warming swindle" manifests a similar pattern for the increase in

world temperature observed more than 3 million years ago before the ice age.Nevertheless, the mere scientific assumption of the historical change far from the

present adds little support because nobody has ever witnessed it before. What

actually happened several millions of years ago remains a mystery in the history of 

mankind. Apparently it seems to be an excuse for human, blaming the nature for the

change in global climate.

In addition to the above, the contribution of man-made carbon dioxide in various

countries has been analyzed , with the US being the greatest contributor. With the

increasing population, the over-consumption of non-renewable energy source in

those powerful leading countries including the US, Japan and China has released

much carbon dioxide into the air, thereby aggravating the greenhouse effect. Besides,

the global warming is becoming more serious and serious in recent years due to the

exponential increase in human activities, reflecting an strong cause-effect

relationship between man-made carbon dioxide and global temperature. On the

contrary, the great global warming swindle claims that the reverse is true-- the rise in

carbon dioxide concentration is the result of rising global temperature-- since some

scientists have found out this pattern. But there is a lack of logical reasoning behind

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the theory when many experts are still in an effort to explain this scenario. No matter

this claim is correct or not, one thing that we cannot deny is that we are now

producing more carbon dioxide than in the past.

Science itself is still in the midst of development, so there is no way we should

believe all the hypotheses. What matters most to us is how we affect the

environment at the present because this is the problem we are facing. It is high time

that we did something to protect our precious planet, and at least we can work hand

in hand to reduce the global carbon dioxide emission.

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