Global Warming Persuasive Essay

Global warming to some individuals is something fake that others say. However, global warming is a threat to us. Most people think of this as a scientific fantasy, but it can be a huge danger for later generations. We can’t be egocentric and only think about us. Global warming isn’t only effecting us, but it’s also effecting animals. Some species might even go extinct because of global warming. We need to do something to prevent or at best slow the process down a bit. I believe it’s vital that we try to prevent because if the oceans keep rising they will take up the land we live. We need to invent technologies that can help us survive this; some countries such as Netherlands have done that. Preventing climate change will be difficult, but it’s
possible to do. There are many contributing factors coming from humans that are causing climate change.
There are also other factors causing this too; humans aren’t the only ones causing this. According to NASA, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which is a group of 1,300 scientists from all over the world reported that there is a staggering 95 percent chance that our planet has become warmer. Mostly due to increased human activities. Since we have become so industrialized; the waste product, CO2, has increased significantly. According to NASA, CO2 levels have increased from 280 parts per million to 400 parts per million. Another contributing factor are the polar ice caps and glaciers melting; they have trapped CO2 in them, and when they melt that trapped CO2 is released out into the atmosphere too. This is a chain reaction of humans being more industrialized. Some other greenhouse gases that effect the warming of Earth include methane and nitrous oxide. Before the Earth started to go through climate change; when the Earth got hot during the day it would always cool down by night enough. But with greenhouse gases they insulate the heat and they just get trapped in the Earth’s atmosphere, and the Earth doesn’t cool down as much as it did perviously. Since the polar ice caps and glaciers are melting which is leading to sea levels rising. Since the sea levels are rising they are starting to take some of the costal areas of some countries. I’ve witnessed this myself as a kid. When I
lived in India; I use to live by the coast, and there was a house that I always saw whenever I went to the beach. Eventually, I moved to the United States, and a couple years later I visited India. I went to go check if that house was still there; the house was underwater. The ocean had risen so much that it swallowed the house. Humans might be in trouble if we don’t do anything about climate change. Climate change is not only affecting us, but it’s affecting some species in the wild. Some species have even went extinct and some are on the brink of extinction.