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Crisis On The Horizon : Global Warming

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Crisis on the Horizon
The subject of global warming and how the human race has contributed to the increase in its effects has been widely debated over the past few decades. The relationship we have with the world is changing its very inhabitability and the United States of America’s government is trying to implement a change but, it may be few and far from what the earth needs to stop the snowballing heat our atmosphere is creating. There are three major things to know understanding how the greenhouse effect works and how it affects humans, what the government is doing, or not doing, to fix the problem, and whether or not these changes are good enough. Before this knowing how global warming works is a must. Knowing all of this will help …show more content…

The salinity of the water makes it more basic of nature meaning it can absorb a large amount of heat before even a slight temperature change. If melting of ice occurs the earth’s oceans could potentially grow by 260 ft. roughly which would cover almost 30% of our land currently including most of the continent of Australia. Recently there was a Greenland glacier that broke off of the island due to global warming. The way the earth is supposed to stabilize seems to be getting more erratic. Normally the earth takes warm air from the equator and using a conveyer belt system of ocean currents and wind currents takes the heat to the poles where it is cooled then returned to the equator. The problem is the heat from the equator isn’t being cooled by the poles as much as it should. It is actually heating the poles up and increasing their temperatures at an almost alarming rate. Through many studies done during the past age the major contribution to Global warming is the greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect is the reflection of light energy (heat) off of the surface and off of the edge of the atmosphere. Imagine a beam of light holding a large amount of energy. As this beam travels it releases energy which heats its surroundings. The closer the earth is to the sun the more energy the beam has thus forming our seasons. Now as the beam of light enters our atmosphere it begins to loose energy much faster than it did in space, this is due

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