Global Warming

Global Warming

Global warming has been closely linked to significant changes in the climate patterns mostly influenced by the changing levels of precipitation and atmospheric moistures as the effects of high temperatures. The changes affect the patterns of storms, sea levels, and snowfall where colder areas get colder. Global warming has been blamed for its detrimental consequences to the forest, wildlife, glaciers, sea levels, and health of the people (Natural Resources Defense Council, 2008). Currently, the greenhouse gases take huge share of the blame for the rising temperature in the planet believed to push geological events such as volcanic eruptions playing to cool the warming climate yet its emissions can fuel up more warming and atmospheric degradation (US Environmental Protection Agency, 2011).

With the threats from global warming, the world is striving to improve air quality. The threats are so huge making it difficult to say that spending to save the planet from perceived danger is not worth the economic cost but revisiting the history can raise a question if global warming can be really prevented from occurring. The scenarios in the past may be different from the modern times yet the planet had been through climatic cycles and global warming which caused drought, flooding and brought to the planet on the Ice Age (US Environmental Protection Agency, 2011). There were no fossil fuel emission in the past yet the planet went through cycles of long wet and dry periods. Suggestively, the climate changes seems to be a long process reoccurring cycle the planet has to go through but since the changes put the future of the human civilization at risk, there is no way to suggest for now that spending for a cause is not worth (USEP, 2010).

References

Natural Resources Defense Council. (2008). The consequences of global warming. Retrieved August 14, 2011, from http://www.nrdc.org/globalwarming/fcons.asp

US Environmental Protection Agency. (2011). Past climate change. Retrieved August 214 2011, from http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/science/pastcc.html