Global Warming
Global Warming
In 1995 a popular science fiction movie called Water World, starring Kevin Costner came out. The plot of this movie is based on a distant future where the polar ice caps have melted, and the sea level has risen hundreds of meters covering all the continents and humanity is forced to live on abandoned ships and floating fortresses scavenging for supplies. Of course, this was only a science fiction movie, and in 1995 the idea of the polar ice caps melting was too far for society to believe that it would anytime soon happen.
Nowadays with all this technological advances and equipment we are able to determine that that distant future may not be so distant at all. The Earth is warming and it affects us all. Take this spring for example. In early March of this year we have experienced record-breaking temperatures. Temperatures that have reached low eighties, temperatures that are normally seen in Chicago during the summer months. Global warming is the theory that causes an increase in the average temperature of Earth's atmosphere and oceans motivated by the greenhouse effect caused by emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases. Global warming not only affects the temperature, but also affects the global rainfall, cloud covers and all other elements of the atmospheric system. Burning oil, coal and natural gas has caused increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and produces the resulting increase in temperature. This phenomenon can cause drastic changes to our planet and one of them will be the melting of the polar ice caps. Temperatures will continue to ascend if greenhouse gases emissions continue. Therefore new energy sources must be explored and developed in order to reduce the emission of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The Earth’s temperatures are rising drastically, which would make it difficult for the world's ecosystems to adapt at such rapid rate.
Global warming is associated with climate change that can have anthropogenic causes. The
In 1995 a popular science fiction movie called Water World, starring Kevin Costner came out. The plot of this movie is based on a distant future where the polar ice caps have melted, and the sea level has risen hundreds of meters covering all the continents and humanity is forced to live on abandoned ships and floating fortresses scavenging for supplies. Of course, this was only a science fiction movie, and in 1995 the idea of the polar ice caps melting was too far for society to believe that it would anytime soon happen.
Nowadays with all this technological advances and equipment we are able to determine that that distant future may not be so distant at all. The Earth is warming and it affects us all. Take this spring for example. In early March of this year we have experienced record-breaking temperatures. Temperatures that have reached low eighties, temperatures that are normally seen in Chicago during the summer months. Global warming is the theory that causes an increase in the average temperature of Earth's atmosphere and oceans motivated by the greenhouse effect caused by emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases. Global warming not only affects the temperature, but also affects the global rainfall, cloud covers and all other elements of the atmospheric system. Burning oil, coal and natural gas has caused increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and produces the resulting increase in temperature. This phenomenon can cause drastic changes to our planet and one of them will be the melting of the polar ice caps. Temperatures will continue to ascend if greenhouse gases emissions continue. Therefore new energy sources must be explored and developed in order to reduce the emission of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The Earth’s temperatures are rising drastically, which would make it difficult for the world's ecosystems to adapt at such rapid rate.
Global warming is associated with climate change that can have anthropogenic causes. The