Global Warming Today‚ global warming poses the greatest threat to humanity and our planet earth. Global warming is actually not a new phenomenon by any means. In fact‚ it started alongside with the industrial revolution centuries ago. Nonetheless‚ global warming has taken an ugly turn due to rapid ongoing buildup of human-related greenhouse gases. For example‚ CO2 emissions reached 8.5 billion tons in 2008 and the average temperatures of the earth has risen by as mush as 0.2 degree Celsius
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Cynthia K Rueda Professor ESL 092 May 5‚ 2011 Research P Draft # 1 Effects of Global Warming: Life is a gift from God and we have to take care of it and the place where we live. The world we live on is at least 4.6 billion years old and has been changing in many ways (Chris Stassen). Before the industrial and technology age come to our word‚ everything was natural and clean‚ but the earth has been pushed to its limits and human race has forgotten to care of it. Now we have rivers and oceans
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GLOBAL WARMING Probably the most worrying threat to our planet at the present time is global warming. The main factors resulting in the warming of the earth is the emission of CO2. CO2 damages the ozone layer and comes from several sources. The most problematic comes from the burning of fossil fuels from electric power stations. This releases thousands of tones of CO2 into the atmosphere every year. Another cause is the burning of gasoline for transportation. It continues to increase because
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WORLD Global Warming The Hottest Debate of the Decade Kristen Flint ‘14 G lobal warming has been a point of contention in our society for years‚ and the extreme views from both sides of the argument have transformed the subject of global warming from a factual theory into a mythical idea. At one extreme‚ those who consider themselves “green” bemoan the tragedy that man is causing our planet’s climate to heat up while the other side of the debate refuses to believe any part of the global warming
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Introduction A Global Warning: Global Warming | The world is warming dangerously. It depends either on the natural causes or the artificial causes like human based greenhouse gases. This affects both the vegetation and zoological environment and also the human | life. Its effects are gradually increasing every year.The purposes of our project are:·To investigate the causes and the effects of global warming and to present the results of our survey.·To attract attention on the solution proposals about
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Meaning of Global Warning 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‚ CFCs‚ and other pollutants. Climate change is any substantial change in Earth’s climate that lasts for an extended period of time. Global warming refers to climate change that causes an increase in the average temperature of the lower atmosphere. Global warming can have many different causes‚ but it is most
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Global Warming Global warming is the most pressing challenge facing the world today. After examining what global warming is‚ I have realized that human activities have a large impact on how the earth’s surface temperature is due to the greenhouse effect. I also have realized the impact that global warming can have on the earth. We as human’s need to do what we can to lower our contributions to the global warming before it is too late. Global warming is the increase of earth’s average
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Global Warming: Cause and Mitigation Your Name Professor Name SCI 110 - Introduction to Physical Science June 12‚ 2013 Global warming‚ also referred to as climate change‚ is real. The question remains‚ is man or Mother Nature responsible for causing it? The Nobel Prize-winning chemist Svante Arrhenius first proposed the idea of global warming in 1896. He knew that carbon dioxide traps heat in the earth’s atmosphere and that burning fossil fuels releases
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Since global warming appeared during the last decade as a serious environmental issue‚ it has been the subject of a lot of debate. Global warming is defined as the warming of the earth by greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere. But there are many questions about global warming‚ from its causes to its effects. Many people even question whether or not global warming exists. And if global warming does exist‚ people question why it exists. Well‚ there are two different viewpoints. The believers
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Global Warming-Killing Earth’s Age Global Warming is defined as the increase in the average temperature of Earth’s Atmosphere. Since 1970‚ most of the increase has been in the oceans‚ which is about 90%. Global Warming also refers to the increase in temperature of the Earth’s surface. Since the year 2000‚ the surface temperature has increased about 0.8 0 C‚ which is about two third of the increase‚ when compared to 1980. Earth is getting warmer and warmer when days pass by. The main cause for
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