My opponent has yet to provide an argument as to why...
Global Warming is real
My opponent has yet to provide an argument as to why climate change isn't real so I'll just ignore their incoherent mumbo jumbo except for the icecaps part and get straight to why the earth is slowly growing more warm and it is because of human activity. Increasing average temperatures. First we'll get into if the earth is actually warmer now. Yes, Average temperatures have grown by about one degree since the industrial revolution. This alone proves global warming is a fact but I'll keep going. One degree doesn't seem like much right? Well it's actually quite significant, The levels of forest fires, Water shortages and other problems have increased in frequency as of late. Another thing that just a one degree change can do is cause the ice caps to melt. Melting Antarctica. You said it yourself, The icecaps are melting which heavily implies you do believe global warming is real but I'll ignore these contradictory beliefs. Why is the ice melting a bad thing? Why is it a problem? Well for one, We'll end up seeing sea levels rise up. We're seeing this happen now. Major population centers such as New York city would be completely submerged under water. What this means is that millions if not billions of people would be displaced. More than just a population disaster would happen though, As we both know Antarctica is covered by a large sheet of ice, This ice reflects large swarths of heat that's coming from the sun. If the ice were to keep melting, Average temperatures would skyrocket which means more droughts in Africa and more environmental disasters such as hurricanes would plague the world. Are humans to blame? Shot answer. Yes. Long answer. You see since the begging of the industrial revolution, Carbon dioxide concentration in the air has increased by about forty five percent. Each year, Human civilizations pump about 36 gigatonnes of the stuff as of 2017. The increase in emissions as a percentage are about the same as global economic growth. Increases by about two percent per year. It is clear as day that humans are the number one largest contributor to carbon dioxide emissions and it's no surprise that this rapid increase in CO2 concentration began during humanity's industrialization. I'll end the first round with a question. Is America's economic growth really more important than the long term survival of thousands of animals including humans? Source/s The Atmosphere: Getting a Handle on Carbon Dioxide By Alan Buis, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Global Temperature Change Bloomberg Green New Global CO2 Emissions Numbers Are In. They"re Not Good. by Kelly Levin Kelly Levin - December 05, 2018