come can we not do anything about it or at least try it? We’re all aware of the seriousness of this problem: CO2 emissions and other substances such as Nitrogen oxide‚ Hydrocarbons or Carbon Monoxide‚ are destroying our ozone layer and causing global warming to arise. In consequence‚ the greenhouse effect makes the world’s temperature to reach higher levels and lead to enormous disasters such as North Pole melting‚ Pollution... All right then‚ I know that each one of you here is perfectly aware of
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Global Warming So are we digging our own grave ? So what is global warming ? Earth is naturally insulated by the delicate balance of heat-trapping which is also called Green House gasses in the atmosphere. When the sun shines on the earth a part of that heat is absorbed‚ Keeping the Earth warm enough for us humans to live on ! But what went wrong ? Over the last centuary‚ we humans have been releasing more and more carbon dioxide and other heat trapping gasses into our atmosphere when we burn
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GLOBAL WARMING Global warming is one of the most challenging environmental problems today. It comes longer and more intense heat waves. National borders have no meaning for the atmosphere. The damage of the atmosphere makes harmful elements enter and travel around the world. And now‚ people are worried about the global effects of air pollution. Research shows that the earth’s atmosphere is changing in ways that could be destructive to our life. Pollution could be a major cause of this. One of
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Is Global Warming a Conspiracy? Global warming is the rise in the average temperature of Earth’s atmosphere and oceans since the late 19th century and its projected continuation. Since the early 20th century‚ Earth’s mean surface temperature has increased by about 0.8 °C‚ with about two thirds of the increase occurring since 1980. Warming of the climate system is unequivocal‚ and scientists are more than 90% certain that it is primarily caused by increasing concentrations of greenhouse
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Global Warming The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency definition of global warming: “Global warming is an average increase in the temperature of the atmosphere near the Earth’s surface and in the troposphere‚ which can contribute to changes in global climate patterns. Global warming can occur from a variety of causes‚ both natural and human induced. In common usage‚ “global warming” often refers to the warming that can occur as a result of increased emissions of greenhouse gases from human
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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 has been a hot topic in recent decades. According to the Climate Literacy‚ global warming refers to is a natural phenomenon whereby heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere‚ primarily water vapor keep the Earth’s surface warm. Human activities‚ primarily burning fossil fuels and changing land cover patterns‚ are increasing the concentrations of some of these gases‚ amplifying the natural greenhouse effect.. I had learned some basic concepts about global warming when
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Global Warnings Controversy over global warming exists as a dispute regarding the nature and consequences of global warming. The theory of global warning as presented in the mainstream media currently assumes that carbon dioxide is an atmospheric greenhouse gas and since humans are producing more carbon dioxide than previously‚ the temperature must therefore rise. The cause of global warming is not actually known‚ but in it ’s simplest terms the debate boils down to whether or not global warming
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Science‚ global warming is used to describe a gradual increase in the average temperature of the Earth ’s atmosphere and its oceans‚ a change that is believed to be permanently changing the Earth ’s climate forever. The scientific consensus on climatic changes to global warming is that the average temperature of the Earth has risen between 0.4 Cto 0.8 C over the past 100 years (as cited in Live Science‚ n.d.). In the article from the American Policy Roundtable Arguments against Global Warming‚ many
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Jason Watts English 4 3/8/2013 Global Warming What are people doing to reduce global warming around the world? There are lots of questions that people don’t know about global warming. Global warming has become the big issue for environmental reasons. Corporations and individuals around the world are discussing the dangers of global warming. They are trying to find out ways to fix this problem and come up with a good solution. Global warming has become the most difficult problem that is facing
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