Study spurs debate on global warming
By Ben Steckler
Assistant Campus Editor
Ignore the snow, the world is getting warmer. The results of a study on global warming have thrust the topic back to the forefront of environmental discussion.
The study, done by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California at Sand Diego, analyzed millions of oceanic temperature readings and provides strong evidence to support global warming. Global warming is the theory that greenhouse gases released during the burning of fossil fuels trap heat in the earth’s atmosphere, raising global temperatures.
Noah Diffenbaugh, assistant professor of earth and atmospheric sciences, is convinced global warming is a problem that needs to be addressed. (Full Article)
