Now the Earth has had wide variations in atmospheric CO2-level throughout its long history before the evolution of humans and certainly before the Industrial Revolutions.In terms of the oceans and the Earth's whole history then could you find information to support the coal and oil industry's claims that we're NOT the cause of climate change? Do some research and cite other factors in climate besides CO2 levels that would support your claims. Also read the attached article about the controversy. Remember too that there is a lot of money and certainly politics involved in this issue. Some scientists have built their whole careers on trying to prove or disprove the human connections to global warming. As you'll see when you do your research the figures for sea-level rise are all over the place. That's because they're based on models that are even more complex than hurricane tracking models (they drive even supercomputers nuts). Now the term  "sea-level"  is relative. If you check a geologic map you'll see that just about every piece of land on Earth has been underwater at least once. That's why sedimentary rocks are the most common type of land surface rock. Sea-level has been up and down thousands of times in the Earth's long history. We're just living on the "latest edition" of our planet. Also the one thing that I want everybody to learn from this course: we live on the Earth and we certainly affect it but  we  DO NOT control it even though we like to think we do. We're just riding this wet rock through space. As for the continuing scientific controversy check out this recent article: Climate panel: warming 'extremely likely' man-made .

1. Now the Earth has had wide variations in atmospheric CO2-
level throughout its long history before the evolution of humans
and certainly before the Industrial Revolutions.In terms of the
oceans and the Earth's whole history then could you find
information to support the coal and oil industry's claims that
we're NOT the cause of climate change? Do some research and
cite other factors in climate besides CO2 levels that would
support your claims. Also read the attached article about the
controversy. Remember too that there is a lot of money and
certainly politics involved in this issue. Some scientists have
built their whole careers on trying to prove or disprove the
human connections to global warming.
As you'll see when you do your research the figures for sea-
level rise are all over the place. That's because they're based on
models that are even more complex than hurricane tracking
models (they drive even supercomputers nuts).
Now the term
"sea-level"
is relative. If you check a geologic map you'll see that just
about every piece of land on Earth has been underwater at least
once. That's why sedimentary rocks are the most common type
of land surface rock. Sea-level has been up and down thousands
of times in the Earth's long history. We're just living on the
"latest edition" of our planet. Also the one thing that I want
everybody to learn from this course: we live on the Earth and
we certainly affect it but
we
DO NOT control it
even though we like to think we do. We're just riding this wet
rock through space.
As for the continuing scientific controversy check out this

2. recent article:
Climate panel: warming 'extremely likely' man-made