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greatly. Climatologist call this time the “Medieval Warm Period.” This climate enabled a different life style for the people living in it. It was a period that surprisingly brought great wealth. With weather suitable for agriculture, farms, and vineyards, massive wealth was generated due to a surplus of crops. In fact, it appears that whenever there is a warm climate trend, there is a correlation with wealth and riches. Going further back 8000 years, geologist study another prominent period called the Holocene Maximum. This was during the Bronze Age were temperatures were significantly higher than they are now. In fact, these temperate lasted for three millennia’s. Plants and animals that experienced these temperatures ironically still …show more content…

Knowing that carbon dioxide is a natural gas produced by all living things, it is also known to popularly to be a large pollutant. It is known also that humans are not the main source of carbon dioxide. Volcanoes produce more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than all the factories, cars, planes, and other sources of man-made carbon dioxide put together. Other sources still come from animals, plants, and bacteria that produce more than 160 gigatons of CO2 each year. This is compared to 6-1/2 gigatons of CO2 produced by humans. An even larger source of carbon dioxide is from dying vegetation, such as falling leaves in the autumn. Lastly, Professor Carl Wunsch from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, studies oceanography and claims that, “The Ocean is the major reservoir into which carbon dioxide goes when it comes out of the atmosphere and where it is reemitted when it comes back out of the atmosphere.” Therefore, if the ocean is heated it tends to emit carbon dioxide and similarity, if the ocean is cooled, the ocean will dissolve more carbon. Therefore, if CO2 caused by humans don’t drive Earth’s climate, what does? Many research studies show a correlation with sun spots, which are cooler areas on the surface of the sun, and temperature. In fact, through this study they found that solar activity followed the trend of the previous climate temperature record discussed earlier. The solar activity rose sharply to 1940, fell back 4-decades to the 1970’s, and rose once again after that. It is said that the sun is driving climate change and CO2 seems to be

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