Global warming depends on which field of science you approach it from.
Uniformitarianism, in geology anyway, would say that the effects of global warming are slow, natural and happened in the past as they will in the future. As the world gets hotter, more water from the sea evapourates releasing more carbon dioxide, making it hotter and hotter until the ice melts and everyting freezes again.
A castrophist would argue that the Earth is made up of short lived events, so the sudden induction of our pollution has sped up the ice caps melting.
I once read a book called the Hab Theory, which supports a castrophic theory that as the Earth spins on it's axis, one day it will swing and start spinning the other way, turning the seas upside down and rearranging the earth in all kinds of ways. I can't remember exactly how to explain it any better then that, but it made sense while I was reading it, and I was scared afterwards. I prefer to think as a uniformitarian, that our landscape happened slowly and gradually, rather then quickly and suddenly.
Uniformitarianism, in geology anyway, would say that the effects of global warming are slow, natural and happened in the past as they will in the future. As the world gets hotter, more water from the sea evapourates releasing more carbon dioxide, making it hotter and hotter until the ice melts and everyting freezes again.
A castrophist would argue that the Earth is made up of short lived events, so the sudden induction of our pollution has sped up the ice caps melting.
I once read a book called the Hab Theory, which supports a castrophic theory that as the Earth spins on it's axis, one day it will swing and start spinning the other way, turning the seas upside down and rearranging the earth in all kinds of ways. I can't remember exactly how to explain it any better then that, but it made sense while I was reading it, and I was scared afterwards. I prefer to think as a uniformitarian, that our landscape happened slowly and gradually, rather then quickly and suddenly.
