Truths about Global Warming and its Dangerous Effects Today
Truths about Global Warming and its Dangerous Effects Today
What happens when too much carbon dioxide gets omitted into the earth's atmosphere? The condition global warming occurs. Global warming is the rising of temperatures due to chemicals called "greenhouse gases" such as carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide and methane. The atmospheric phenomenon of allowing the sun's radiant energy to pass through and then trapping the earth's re-irradiated energy is known "greenhouse effect". (Fisher 19) A natural greenhouse effect helps to keep the earth's average temperature at a comfortable 59 degrees fahrenheit.
Every year our climate is continually changing and becoming warmer. Most of the human activities are causing some greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide to build up in the atmosphere. Human activities is the leading contributor to the build up of greenhouse gases. Human activities such as when people burn more fossil fuels for energy, they add more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. When the trees at the forest are cut down to make way for agriculture. Nitrous oxide had increase too where they use fertilizers. Such activities we use to perform is increasing year to year, many of them doubling and tripling. It is a case of the amount of gases the earth produces naturally versus the amount of gases produced manually by us. Other human activities such as smoke from factory chimneys and exhaust from cars contain carbon dioxide that increases the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. But unfortunately due of producing more harmful greenhouses gases being placed into the earth's atmosphere, instead of temperature being constant, it's rising. One of these is El Nino event of 1997-1998, the strongest event of El Nino of the century.
The earth's rising of temperature will cause danger that are harmful to all human beings. With the increased warming of the earth that could lead to catastrophic events that could endanger living things on our planet. One event is major drought all around the world. In 1999, the US experienced one of the most major droughts ever recorded, Maryland, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Delaware faced their driest growing season on record. (PIRG Global Warming Organization) With the warming of the earth, the water on the ground would quickly evaporate causing the rivers and lakes to quickly dry up....