Global warming, blamed mainly
on human burning of fossil fuels that produce heat - trapping carbon dioxide, is projected to bring more floods, droughts and to raise world sea levels.
According to a paper by Gerald Meehl at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, models show that
if human burning of fossil fuels is not curtailed there could be 20 heat records for every cold record by 2050, and by 2100 the ratio could be 50 to 1.
5 (3) Causes of the climate change This warming is largely attributed to the increase of greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide and methane) in the Earth's atmosphere caused
by human burning of fossil fuels, industrial, farming, and deforestation activities.
However, the rise in atmospheric concentration of CO2 driving the modern warming is NOT coming from the oceans, but from
the human burning of fossil fuels.
However, as Mr. Outing points out, presenting a «balanced» view of global heating doesn't make sense — there isn't anything resembling a serious debate about whether human beings are causing global heating because the current scientific consensus is that
human burning of fossil fuels is causing global heating.