Earth is a very small part of an enormous and vastly unknown universe, but it is our home. The news is full of the topic of global warming. The earth has always fascinated me, even as a little girl. My mother and I used to watch documentaries on the topic of many Earth related things and now my husband and I watch shows about the different topics of the Earth and its global issues. I am currently enrolled in another class where this question has been asked and debated greatly. It is called Physical Geology, which is about the Earth and its environment. Global warming is one of those topic that interest me greatly and has been a topic of great discussion and debate for many years. I have wondered many times how all the power plants that blow all that smoke into the air affect our environment, along with the technology everyone has now days. Looking back into even just the 1970’s, the whole world has changed and evolved so much; but what is the price we pay for that. The question I have chosen to write my argumentative paper about is this question: Is the global climate change man-made The very first source that I decided to begin with is my Physical Geology book called “Earth An Introduction Physical Geology” by Tarbuck Lutgens and Tasa. In the chapter about the Human Impact on Global Climate it talks about how “humans have been modifying the environment over extensive areas for thousands of years” (page 721). Carbon dioxide has been put into the air in great quantities through burning fossil fuels such as coal, natural gas, and petroleum. The global temperatures has risen according to the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Because of the rising global temperatures the sea level has risen due to the widespread melting snow and ice. Some of the ice that is melting is millions of years old. My Earth book also states that methane and Nitrous Oxide are also being released in to the atmosphere causing the overall temperature of the world to increase….