Global Warming - Greenhouse Effect

Global Warming

Global warming, also known as the greenhouse effect, the increase of global

temperature, is a topic that has received much attention in recent years; the climate change is

not a recent problem. It has been happening over many years. It is slow but deadly problem

that has plagued this planet for several decades. The problem of global warming, an increase in

the average temperature on Earth, is getting worse. What is increasing is the amount of carbon

dioxide; it is accelerating due to the growth of human population. The growth of our population

has built up our use of fuel, land, and manufacturing. All of these are producing more carbon

dioxide into our atmosphere. Carbon dioxide let the light energy in, but doesn't let all of the

heat out. That's how global becomes warming and it affects a lot to people lives.

History supports that global warming, also known as the greenhouse effect is not a new

problem. There has been a change in natural greenhouse effect that has effect temperatures

over the past few decades. The increasing of temperature has been warning for a long time

ago. James Gustave Speth produced in his article "The Greenhouse Effect and Global Climate

Change":

"Perhaps the most notable warning came in October 1985, at a conference

Sponsored by the International Council of Scientific Union (I.C.S.U.), the

World Meteorological Organization (W.M.O), and the U.N. Environment

Programme (U.N.E>P.), in Villach, Austria. "As a result of the increasing

Concentrations of greenhouse gases," the conference statement began,

"it is now believed that in the first half of the next century, a rise of global

Mean temperature could occur which is greater than any in Man's history"

(U.N.E.P. et al. 1985)." (. James Gustave Speth, 1)

Based on many surveys and studies such as the reports of "the Intergovernmental Panel on

Climate Change (IPCC)", they have "four Assessment Reports have been completed in 1990,

1995, 2001, and 2007."(iccp.ch), we can confirm that we are facing to serious environmental

problem.

In natural, there are changes in weather patterns causing increased storms. Global

warming is making the hot days become hotter, storms become stronger. In the past, we had

many storms, hurricanes, but they did not happen at the same time or continually. In the near

few years, we have experienced a case that the storm and hurricanes happened at the same

time. According to television show talked about the Katrina: "In 2005, when it hit Florida. It was

only a tropical storm but, a few miles into the Gulf Coast and New Orleans was devastated with

a towering Category 5 hurricane". Hurricanes are formed in tropical waters, and need

continued to exit. Because the carbon dioxide built up, it made the atmosphere has the effect

like the greenhouse. It keep more heat from the sunlight in our atmosphere. That is why the

sun beamed down onto the ocean, the light energy stay there and heat up the water. This is

how Katrina grew into such a horror. And unfortunately, global temperatures are projected to

increase.

The causes that are accelerating global warming are related to the growth of human

population increasing the need for burning fossil fuels, land to settle on, manufacturing

goods. The growth of human population is paralleled by an increasing production of cars, house

hold, appliances, plants, and especially the industrial factories. All of these are essentially

worked by fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and gasoline - all major contributors to the raise of

carbon dioxide emission, and we know that the increase of carbon dioxide is one of the reasons

make the global warms up. Bill Dietrich said in his article "Where the world isn't so cool,

anymore":

" Over the last 160,000 years--as measured by ice-core records from

Greenland--the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has fluctuated

between 190 and 280 parts per million. Temperatures have been in lock

step with changing carbon dioxide, rising and falling up to 20 degrees. Since

the Industrial Revolution, however, the greenhouse gas has climbed to