When many people think about their future, usually they are only considering things that will effect or benefit their personal lives. Things such as the city that they will live or if they will have the same job five years down the road. Few people think about what may be going on in the environment around them. Global warming, also known as the greenhouse effect, is a rise in the entire temperature of the earth’s atmosphere. It has been receiving a lot of attention from scientists in the past few years. However, this is not a problem that has just been discovered. It has been evolving throughout history since 1928. But, it is a system that started around eighteen thousand years ago (When Did Global Warming Start?). Global warming is …show more content…
Burning fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and natural gas releases a huge amount of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. This is because almost all fossil fuels are made of mostly carbon (Singer). Fossil fuels are used for many things such as providing gas for vehicles and airplanes, heating homes, and powering electricity plants. Power plants are what humans use to convert coal into electricity (Khemani). Although scientists are working on ways to make the combustion of coal safer for the environment, they still have not perfected it. There are large tube-like structures attached to many power plants. They are also known as stacks. In many power plants across the world, these stacks are used to get the exhaust fumes out of the power plants (Black). The reason that this is harmful is because although a lot of the fumes coming out are just water vapor, other gases such as carbon dioxide are also mixed in. Carbon dioxide traps heat in the atmosphere, so these exhaust fumes are actually helping the process of global warming increase. Natural gas is a fossil fuel; however it does not create as much carbon dioxide as coal and oil do (Government Solutions to Global Warming). So if power plants used natural gas instead of coal and oil, they could reduce the amounts of carbon dioxide that get into the air (Government Solutions to Global Warming). Volcanic eruptions are a natural cause that can lead to global warming. Smaller eruptions can cause weather
We might disagree on the causes of global warming; however, we cannot ignore that it is happening. Although we still experience cold winters, average global temperatures has risen drastically for the past three decades. Polar ice caps are melting; as a result, sea levels are rising. Scientist predict more extreme weather in the coming decades, in fact, droughts will probably be more common. Also, flooding and tropical temperatures might cause large amounts of methane gases to be released, which could be disastrous for our atmosphere. Climate change may have human causes and also it might be a natural occurrence. Nevertheless, we must find ways to save our planet.
Whenever someone thinks of CO2, they think of global warming. They are reminded of Al Gore and his stance on global warming and they automatically think it is true. He has a lot of evidence to back up his theory about how global warming exists and that it is the reason animals are going extinct and also why the climate is changing. Well these facts are wrong and there is evidence to prove it. Global warming is not real and the Earth might even be in a cooling period. There so many reasons to blame people for the epidemic of this false global warming. CO2, a naturally produced gas absorbed by oceans and trees could not be the reason, so what could? Well, nothing can, none of man’s efforts to control the climate will
In today’s society commoners are hard pressed from both sides of a raging debate that has encompassed the political landscape of America and much of the world. This raging debate concerns Global Warming or preferably Climate Change. Each side trying to convince the populace one way or the other. On one side the liberal ideology is convinced that the rapid change in the temperature of the earth is caused by extensive human Carbon Dioxide emissions. On the other side, the conservative ideology is certain that the change in the temperature of the earth is due to natural causes and that there is no need to alter the way countries are run in order to compensate for Climate Change. The masses are currently being fed pro global warming ideology. This is primarily due to the current president Barack Obama who is a major pro global warming advocate. Sixty percent of the United States population disagrees with president Obama on his stance on climate change, and there is strong scientific backing for the populace.
Global warming is a phenomenon that has amazed and frightened everyone ever since it came into being. The consequences and end results of global warming is what goes on to alarm and frighten everyone on earth. If looked at it literally, global warming is basically in increase in the temperature of the Earth's atmosphere. This change and elevation has been occurring ever since the 19th century and is known to increase even more. The change in the global temperature is dangerous because it goes onto increase the sea levels and alterations precipitation, melting of glacier and possible risks of floods around the world. Global warming can even cause a spread of the deserts (Lu, Vecchi and Reichler 6)
You may have heard people talking about how the weather is very different today than it was ten years ago. You may have noticed changes in the weather yourself. The earth's climate has changed many times over millions of years. And you may have heard about Global Warming. You may ask what Global Warming is. I remember the first time I ever saw and heard about Global Warming when I was just a little girl. I was watching the TV and a commercial came on, it was a cartoon with two kids and an adult. They were in the park enjoying the day. The adult started talking about Global Warming, the kids didn’t know what he was talking about, so he fast forward the time and showed them what the earth is going to look like when they are
Global warming is not just something that will happen, it’s something that is happening. People around the world are trying to fix what the human race has done to our planet. The damage is reaching a point that stopping air pollution and other atmospheric harmful things won’t be enough. Countries need to pull together whatever resources they can to do whatever they can. Earth is like our food source it feeds us, but you don’t bite the hand that feeds you.
Volcanic eruptions result in climate change, danger to people, and can cause other natural disasters. Eruptions have major effects on the climate. The gases and particles from the eruption can shield the Earth’s atmosphere from solar
Most people have heard about the heating of the planet at some point. It is an almost inevitable topic of conversation. However, in a survey done on YouGov.com, it was found that only 36% of Americans believe that global warming is a serious issue (Global Survey Dahlgreen), and, based on another survey done by Monmouth university, only 70% admit that it is happening at all. (Monmouth University). However, global warming is a huge issue in the world, one that will only get worse if we continue to ignore it.
In the world today, global warming is rapidly being noticed by most all living beings, especially in North America. Global warming is, according to dictionary.reference.com is ‘an increase in the earth's average atmospheric temperature that causes corresponding changes in climate and that may result from the greenhouse effect.’ (global-warming. 2015). Changes in the earth temperatures could be due to anything, but I think that global warming is very real, and it could affect our children and grandchildren. Over the past years, global warming has changed temperatures, usually making them higher than before, and is affecting sea levels while also shifting seasons. These things can be a problem because the world that we know now could alter so dramatically that the earth could very well not be able to be lived on anymore. Things such as that could cause a number of things including extinction of species, increase of fires, droughts, and floods, and even economic losses.
To get an understanding, Global warming is when the earth’s temperatures rise more than average causing drastic weather and climate change. It all began during the industrial era in the early 1800s where fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas became the primary source of energy. Since then many people had soon discovered that fossil fuels have improved their way of life, therefore the use and demand for fuel has been on the rise. In the United States it 's self currently provides more than 85 percent of all the energy consumption – that’s nearly two-thirds of our electricity (Ronnie D. Lankford)! Even though many people argue that these fossil fuels have improved our standards of life, such as providing us with electricity that light up our homes, or fuel that gets our cars running, taking us from point A to B. Yes, these are great luxuries to have but these fossil fuels add carbon dioxide to the Earth 's atmosphere, which is harmful to the environment as well as the well being on this earth (Ronnie D. Lankford). This can then be seen as a problem made by human activity. The questions that are to be explored are; How is global warming caused and the effects? How it can be prevented or stabilized?
It's no surprise to most people that the idea of global warming is a highly controversial and debated topic. But is there any real evidence that global warming is a growing problem or is global warming just a big scare tactic being used to get people to comply with strict government regulations? Global warming is widely believed to be the main cause of rising average global temperatures. In reality, global warming isn't really all what it has been exaggerated to be. Many of the predicted effects of global warming over time have actually been proven to be false all together.
On April 25, 1975 a Newsweek headline blamed a deadly outbreak of southern tornadoes on a disastrous average climate temperature decline that had been persisting for over thirty years. This report stated that the temperature drop increased pressure points in the upper atmosphere amidst the circumvential flow of the westerly winds that in turn affected temperate regions to increase numbers of deathly droughts, floods, freezes, and late-coming monsoons (Gwynne). Global cooling was a scare that resulted because of a theory, but now the concern is global warming. With many theories resulting in a a dead end when they were only hypotheses in the first place, intellectual citizens have begun to distrust the scientific community because of
Many claim that global warming is obvious and that all arguments against global warming fall. The problem is that what is “obvious” often isn’t true. “A gradual increase in the overall temperature of the earth's atmosphere generally attributed to the greenhouse effect caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide, chlorofluorocarbons, and other pollutants.” This is the Webster dictionary definition of Global Warming, which basically says that due to an overflow of harmful and hazardous chemicals in the air that it is creating a danger zone for the earth. This is because these chemicals are increasing the earths’ temperature. Svante Arrhenius, a Swedish scientist was the first person to claim that in 1896 that fossil fuel combustion may
Global warming has become a world wide issue and an issue that is causing great controversy. It is an increase in the earth's atmospheric and oceanic temperatures widely predicted to occur due to an increase in the greenhouse effect resulting especially from pollution (Dictionary). Global warming is a natural process, but because of increase in certain activities this process is taking a faster and more dangerous route creating global problems. Global warming was first theorized in 1894 by Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier a French mathematician, who noticed the earth was gradually increasing in temperature. He came to the conclusion that the earth’s atmosphere was trapping solar radiation caused by the sun and reflecting this radiation back to
Global Warming: Fact Vs. Fiction Global Warming -- the gradual increase in planet-wide temperatures -- seems to be accepted by many scientists and people now as fact. Generally, this warming is attributed to the increase of green-house gases in the Earth's upper atmosphere.