Global Warming
Glaciers are melting fast, sea levels are rising and rising, cloud forests are dying so therefor the sun is getting hotter, and wildlife is scrambling to keep pace. People now are starting to realize that something has to be done before it is way to late. The question that is on everyones mind is what will we do to slow this warming? How will we cope with the changes we’ve already set into motion? While we struggle to figure it all out, the face of the Earth as we know it coasts, forests, farms and snow capped mountains will hang in the balance. We are calling global warming the set of changes to the Earth’s climate, there are many causes to this global warming and its affect all of us, but there is hope because we can prevent it from getting worst.
Global warming is the set of changes to the Earth’s climate, or long term weather patterns, that varies form place to place. As the Earth spins each day, the new heat swirls with it, picking up moisture over the oceans, rising here and settling there. Its the changing of the rhythms of climate that all living things have come to rely upon. The green house effect is the warming that happens when certain gases in the Earth’s atmosphere trap heat. So what will happen is the gases let in light but keep heat from escaping. Since 1824 scientists have known about greenhouse effects, the founder was Joseph Fourier. For the past few thousand years the levels of greenhouses gases have fairly been constant, but until recently. The burning of fossil fuels and other GHG emissions, humans are enhancing the greenhouse effect and warming of the the Earth. the average global temperature and concentrations of carbon dioxide, one of the major greenhouse gases, have fluctuated on a cycle of hundreds of thousands of years as the Earth’s position relative to the sun has varied. But now humans have increased the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by more than a third since the industrial revolution. Changes this.
