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1)Knowledge issues - What role does scientific reports play in deciding whether global warming is beneficial. 2)KI and the topic - Scientific reports could have a huge influence on people’s thinking of whether global warming is beneficial or not. 3) Perspective - Agree : Some studies shown that global warming is beneficial to our world. For example, Agricultural Bonanza, and Decrease in disaster. (Some people are just scare of change) - Disagree : Some studies argued that global warming is harmful for us. For example, 4) Supporting Quotes - "The expected increase in CO2 will be an additional blessing. Carbon dioxide acts like fertilizer for plants. Dutch greenhouses" - "Most of the trillion-dollar estimates of global warming "costs" headlined in the 1980s were based on forecasts that cities such as New York City and Bangladesh would be drowned under rising seas. In 1980, for example, some activists claimed that global warming would raise sea levels by twenty-five feet. In 1985, a National Research Council panel estimated a three-foot rise in the sea level. Those are frightening scenarios, but completely untrue. " - "Think of the other advantages the Left is ignoring. A warmer wetter world could very well mean more rain forest—hence more biodiversity!" - "Global climate change poses a major threat to public health, the environment, and U.S. and world economies. We already face increasingly severe heat waves and droughts, intensifying hurricanes and floods, disappearing glaciers, and more wildfires."

5) Bibliography - Opposing Viewpoints: Global Warming. Ed. James Haley. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2002. http://find.galegroup.com/ovrc/retrieve.do?subjectParam=Locale%2528en%252C%252C%2529%253AFQE%253D%2528su%252CNone%252C25%2529global%2Bwarming%2Bbeneficial%2524&contentSet=GSRC&sort=Relevance&tabID=T010&sgCurrentPosition=0&subjectAction=DISPLAY_SUBJECTS&prodId=OVRC&searchId=R1&currentPosition=3&userGroupName=dulwichc&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&sgHitCountType=None&qrySerId=Locale%28en%2C%2C%29%3AFQE%3D%28ke%2CNone%2C25%29global+warming+beneficial%24&inPS=true&searchType=BasicSearchForm&displaySubject=&docId=EJ3010222216&docType=GSRC

- Global Warming Will Be Beneficial. James S. Robbins. At Issue: Is Global Warming a Threat?. Ed. David M. Haugen. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2008.http://find.galegroup.com/ovrc/retrieve.do?subjectParam=Locale%2528en%252C%252C%2529%253AFQE%253D%2528su%252CNone%252C25%2529global%2Bwarming%2Bbeneficial%2524&contentSet=GSRC&sort=Relevance&tabID=T010&sgCurrentPosition=0&subjectAction=DISPLAY_SUBJECTS&prodId=OVRC&searchId=R1&currentPosition=1&userGroupName=dulwichc&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&sgHitCountType=None&qrySerId=Locale%28en%2C%2C%29%3AFQE%3D%28ke%2CNone%2C25%29global+warming+beneficial%24&inPS=true&searchType=BasicSearchForm&displaySubject=&docId=EJ3010280219&docType=GSRC

- Climate change. National Voter 58. 1 (Oct 2008) : p5(2). Reading Level (Lexile): N/A. http://find.galegroup.com/ovrc/retrieve.do?subjectParam=Locale%2528en%252C%252C%2529%253AFQE%253D%2528su%252CNone%252C22%2529global%2Bwarming%2Bharmful%2524&contentSet=IAC-Documents&sort=DateDescend&tabID=T003&sgCurrentPosition=0&subjectAction=DISPLAY_SUBJECTS&prodId=OVRC&searchId=R2&currentPosition=1&userGroupName=dulwichc&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&sgHitCountType=None&qrySerId=Locale%28en%2C%2C%29%3AFQE%3D%28ke%2CNone%2C22%29global+warming+harmful%24&inPS=true&searchType=BasicSearchForm&displaySubject=&docId=A187505769&docType=IAC