Temperature Rising
Temperature Rising Global Warming is the increase in the average temperature of the Earth's near-surface air, landmasses, and oceans its projected prolongation. Many believe that the Earth is currently facing warming in the ozone layer brought on by the rising levels of trapped gases known as the greenhouse effect resulting especially from pollution. Global warming is, in Laymen’s terms, altering the balance in energy of the earth (Reid 27). “The topic of climatic change has been in question since the late 1980’s” (Reid 170). “Contrary to what some believe, global warming is affected by human life and the tolls that technology and the resulting greenhouse gases have on the environment. The human influence is disrupting the natural state of the atmosphere which in turn changes the earth’s balance in energy. This results in climate change” (Reid 130). Regardless of the damage that has already been done, people can still take action in order to help control the disturbance of the atmosphere. Although some argue that global warming part of earthly cycles, it is not the case. Contributions to global warming made by humans create almost a standstill in proposed cycles dealing with temperature. “One example is of the proposed cycles is that of the ice ages. Even, if there were an ice age approximately every 100,000 years, this cycle would no longer exist due to the amount of carbon dioxide being emitted into the atmosphere. The excess of carbon dioxide is creating a blanket-like cover that is disrupting the proposed cycle. Ice ages occur when the ocean and vegetation absorbs the carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. As the carbon dioxide is removed from the atmosphere, the temperature drops drastically; however, the ocean and vegetation is proven unable to absorb the amount of carbon dioxide fast enough to keep up with the previous timings of past ice ages” (Pearce 1-2). In between an ice age and the heat of global warming is the ideal consistency of
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