The Natural Oven

The Natural Oven

Many people think that global warming should be stopped because it is damaging the quality of the environment. Scientists think that global warming is a natural cycle where natural gases exchanges in the atmosphere and had played as a major role player during the history of Earth. A series of events that had happened thousands of years ago, led to the mass extinction of dinosaurs and to what many scientists called the Ice Age. Everybody knows that global warming is dangerous, but many people think that this cycle happens once in a while. It is not true. Human race is having a major impact which is leading to accelerate global warming. This issue is alarming and everybody needs to start working together to avoid an abrupt change in the climate. If this problem continues, it will be the end of the human race. Forces of nature will be devastating and nothing will be able to protect us against global warming.

The Columbia Encyclopedia on-line defines global warming as the gradual increase of the temperature of the Earth's lower atmosphere as a result of the increase of greenhouse gases since the Industrial Revolution. The greenhouse gases are natural gases that help the decomposition of impurities from the environment and help to produce oxygen. The most important of these gases is water vapor. Lesser gases include methane, nitrous oxide and chlorofluorocarbons. In the book Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years by S. Fred Singer and Dennis T. Avery states the following:

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The theory that human emissions of greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide, are heating the Earth beyond the levels of past climate variation, creating serious danger for the planet's ecosystem. (239)

There are statistical studies that everybody should know about global warming. This issue has to come to an end before is too late. The planet is already showing signs of the effects of global warming. The article Global Warming Fast Facts posted by the National Geographic on June 2007 states the following:

Average temperatures have climbed 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit (0.8 degree Celsius) around the world since 1880... The rate of warming is increasing. The 20th century's last two decades were the hottest in 400 years and possibly the warmest for several millennia, according to a number of climate studies... The Arctic is feeling the effects the most... Arctic ice is rapidly disappearing, and the region may have its first completely ice-free summer by 2040 or earlier. (sec. 1)

These numbers are very alarming and everybody should be scared because it is happening for real. However, at the rate that pollution is going, these number will probably double or triple in the next couple of years.

Global warming has different causes. There are natural causes and man-made causes. Natural causes are those