On April 25, 1975, a Newsweek headline attributed a deadly outbreak of southern tornadoes to a disastrous drop in the climate's average temperature that had persisted for more than thirty years. This report stated that the drop in temperature increased pressure points in the upper atmosphere amid the circumventional flow of westerly winds which in turn affected temperate regions increasing the number of deadly droughts, floods, frosts and late monsoons (Gwynne). Global cooling was a scare from one theory, but now the concern is global warming. With many theories hitting dead ends when they were just hypotheses in the first place, intellectual citizens have begun to distrust the scientific community due to their tendency to teach theories as facts instead of educational hypotheses. Currently, ordinary citizens are hesitant to trust any idea published in the name of science. Many skeptics were taught that Lucy, the famous halfway point between humans and apes, was a miraculous discovery (“Johanson”). When they learned that it was just a hoax, the level of trust within that age group dropped significantly. Theories such as flat earth or geocentric theories have been falsified even though, at some point, they were taught as the only truth. Today, not only is global warming the subject of intense political and activist debate, but it is also a source of questions for citizens and discussions among scientists. Citizens are both skeptical and supportive of global warming. The “global cooling” fear of the 1970s was somehow transformed into a warming issue regarding dramatically rising water levels and the death of polar bears lining Arctic coasts (Gwynne). However, there is evidence and conclusions about...... half of the article ......ge is natural." Daily Express. Northern and Shell Media Publications, 20 November 2012. Web. 28 October 2013. Nielsen, Chris and Ho, Mun. “Clearing the Air in China.” The New York Times Company, October 25, 2013. Web. November 4, 2013. “Ocean Currents.” Grolier Online, 2013. Web. November 18, 2013."Reasons to Believe: Global Warming." Reasons to believe: global warming. Reasons to Believe, n.d. Web. October 28, 2013. Sachs, Jessica Snyder. "Atmospheric Scientists and Their Science." The New Book of PopularScience. Grolier Online, 2013. Web. 18 November 2013."Theory." Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. Grolier Online, 2013. Web. 18 November 2013. Volpe, E. Peter. "Evolution." Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, 2013. Web. 2013.