Global Warming: Is It A Serious Issue? A little girl is playing outside in a T-shirt and shorts. A slight red glow is starting to appear on her cheeks. As people are reading this statement‚ they are picturing a child during spring. In reality‚ it is only November 19th. The world’s temperatures are increasing yearly due to global warming. We need to take immediate action to slow this cause. Global warming is becoming a major issue in our environment in the last couple of years. Global warming
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detrimental depletion of our world’s reserves of nonrenewable resources‚ we find our world now under a disease called global warming. This chronic warming of our entire atmosphere is leading to catastrophic and disastrous events that prove to be the single most largest issue of our world in known and written history. Scientists‚ according to Livescience magazine‚ say that global warming is the rapid increase in the surface temperature
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Global Warming and the Effect on the Environment SCI 207 Dependence of Man on the Environment Instructor: William Lees April 8‚ 2013 Global Warming is a serious issue today. The effect it has on this earth is a concern for scientist around the world. Global warming is rising the average temperature of the world. The temperature has risen about 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit from the mid 1800’s to now. And scientists have forecasts a temperature rise of 2.5 to 10 degrees Fahrenheit over the next
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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
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The Human Factor of Global Warming The Human Factor of Global Warming Global warming has been a growing concern for many over the last several decades. The effects of global warming are evident and broad‚ with historical research dating the first global warming crisis back 56 million years ago‚ better known as the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum‚ or PETM (Jardine‚ 2011). Research from the composition of sediments of fossils shells of marine organisms conclude that carbon dioxide trapped within
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Carbon Emissions and Global Warming Carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere every time we burn fossil fuels such as gas‚ coal or oil. In a natural carbon cycle‚ carbon dioxide is re-absorbed by plants and trees. However‚ the rate in which we are burning fuels is way too fast for trees and plants to absorb and convert into breathable air. In addition to that‚ many rainforests have been lost because of the cutting down of trees‚ which doesn’t help in the already existing problem. The effect
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Global Warming and Acid Rain INTRODUCTION The phrase Global Warming has become familiar to many people as one of the important environmental issues of our day. Many views have been expressed concerning it‚ from the doom-laden to the dismissive. There is little debate that the earth is undoubtedly warming. It has been the subject of intense debate for decades now. Greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and industrial gases from fossil fuels play a huge role in why our environment is changing
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Global warming is the rise in the average temperature of earth’s atmosphere and oceans. Globalization is the process of extending social relations across world space. Such extension results in simultaneous development in technology and trade. Some of them cause harm to the atmosphere and invites global warming. The increase in the earth’s average surface temperature due to the effect of green house gases such as carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels etc leads to global warming. As
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Will Biofuels solve global warming? Global warming is caused by greenhouse gasses; these trap heat in the earth’s atmosphere that should escape from the earth. Global warming is causing sea levels to rise and ice caps to melt this could lead to coastal cities flooding‚ droughts in area’s which usually get rain and less crops to list only a few affects. The cause of global warming is “greenhouse gasses” these gasses include nitrous oxide carbon dioxide and water vapour. Cars produce CO2‚ H20 and
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SUMMARY Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of the earth’s atmosphere. It happens when high level of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane are trapped in the atmosphere causing a rise in temperature. Although the idea that global warming is similar to climate change‚ there are still some distinctions with these two concepts. As mentioned earlier‚ there is a shift from low temperature to high temperature caused mainly by gases when we speak of global warming. While
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