Effects of Global Warming on Penguins
Effects of Global Warming
Penguins, Disease, Health
Global warming is a very popular topic of conversation worldwide. People have speculated wildly about the causes, effects and solutions. Although global warming does not affect my life now, it is a danger that could impact the lives of my children.
Global warming is defined as an increase in the average temperature of the earth 's atmosphere that is theorized to contribute to climatic change and rising sea levels due to heat trapped by greenhouse gases. Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier was a French mathematician who came up with the first theory of global warming in 1824 when he discovered that the Earth’s temperature was increasing (NewspaperArchive.com par 3). Fourier argued that “the Earth’s atmosphere traps solar radiation and reflects it back toward the earth” (NewspaperArchive.com par 3). It was later named the greenhouse effect in the late 19th century when Nobel Laureate Svante Arrhenius used the term to “explain how carbon dioxide traps heat in the Earth 's atmosphere” (NewspaperArchive.com par 4). This theory was later dismissed in favor of Milutin Milankovich’s hypothesis that climate change correlates with orbital changes of the earth, until the 1950s when scientist G.S. Callendar warned that the greenhouse effect was real and significantly impacting Earth’s atmosphere (NewspaperArchive.com par 5). The media speculated in the 20th century about the possible effects; some sources predicted the return of the ice age while others wondered about the massive flooding caused by the melting of the ice caps (NewspaperArchive.com par 6). Through reading and basic research I have discovered that global warming negatively impacts several species of penguins, infectious diseases, and public health and mortality rates aggravated by floods, droughts, and heat waves.
Juame Forcada and his colleagues from the British Antarctic Survey and Natural Environment Research Council have investigated the effects of
Penguins, Disease, Health
Global warming is a very popular topic of conversation worldwide. People have speculated wildly about the causes, effects and solutions. Although global warming does not affect my life now, it is a danger that could impact the lives of my children.
Global warming is defined as an increase in the average temperature of the earth 's atmosphere that is theorized to contribute to climatic change and rising sea levels due to heat trapped by greenhouse gases. Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier was a French mathematician who came up with the first theory of global warming in 1824 when he discovered that the Earth’s temperature was increasing (NewspaperArchive.com par 3). Fourier argued that “the Earth’s atmosphere traps solar radiation and reflects it back toward the earth” (NewspaperArchive.com par 3). It was later named the greenhouse effect in the late 19th century when Nobel Laureate Svante Arrhenius used the term to “explain how carbon dioxide traps heat in the Earth 's atmosphere” (NewspaperArchive.com par 4). This theory was later dismissed in favor of Milutin Milankovich’s hypothesis that climate change correlates with orbital changes of the earth, until the 1950s when scientist G.S. Callendar warned that the greenhouse effect was real and significantly impacting Earth’s atmosphere (NewspaperArchive.com par 5). The media speculated in the 20th century about the possible effects; some sources predicted the return of the ice age while others wondered about the massive flooding caused by the melting of the ice caps (NewspaperArchive.com par 6). Through reading and basic research I have discovered that global warming negatively impacts several species of penguins, infectious diseases, and public health and mortality rates aggravated by floods, droughts, and heat waves.
Juame Forcada and his colleagues from the British Antarctic Survey and Natural Environment Research Council have investigated the effects of
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