Global Warming : A Catastrophic Situation

2) Glaciers, sea ice and tundra will melt, contributing to global sea level rise . This will make 13 out of 15 of the world’s largest cities lying in coastal plains particularly vulnerable to rises in sea level and this can cause floods , tsunamis and many horrible disasters.

He cites a new study that states that the melting of Greenland?s ice cap could raise the oceans by twenty three feet (seven meters), which would submerge low-lying coastal regions and other cities located at sea level, stretching from Los Angeles to London.18 The rising sea levels and increased rainfall in the Arctic could bring about horrific floods and severe storms across the globe.

In 2006, former senator Al Gore created an academy award winning documentary on global warming entitled “An Inconvenient Truth” . The movie earned several awards including an academy award for best documentary and gore later received a noble peace prize. The movie discussed several different topics of great concern to global warming; such as permafrost, climbs in temperature, extinction of species, drought, and fatigue to name a few. Four writers in five different articles discussed the three topics of greenhouse gases, climate change, and causes of global warming. These writers are writer and scholar Bill McKibben in “Think Again: Climate Change” and “How Close to catastrophe”; William J. Broad, writer for the New York Times in “From a Rapt audience, a call to cool the hype”; writer for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Kevin O’Brien, in “Global Warming? I won’t be losing any sleep over it”; and Alan Zarembo, staff writer for the the Los Angeles Times, in “Game over on global warming?” All though the articles explain some different topics from one another, only one of them disagree with gore on the causes for global warming being humans, they all agree that there will be impacts to the environment, and all of them believe that greenhouse gases are one of the primary causes for global warming.

Firstly, we have the tilt of the Earth on its axis as it orbits the sun. Every 41,000 years, the exaggeration of the tilt varies on a range of about two degrees, which may seem small, but results in more solar radiation, and thus, and greater difference in seasons experience on Earth. Secondly, we have the atmosphere that envelops the Earth. Only 0.1% of the energy from the Sun’s rays penetrates the atmosphere in the form of heat, which is trapped to the Earth by molecules in the atmosphere. This is the natural and beneficial process of global warming: light energy passes through the atmosphere, and is kept close to the Earth in form of heat, which results in the natural average global temperature of about 60º F. Without this effect, the world’s average temperature would be around -3º F, and thus uninhabitable for life forms with which we are comfortable and familiar. The third aspect of global warming are those molecules in the atmosphere that keep the heat trapped in the Earth. While there is an infinite array of molecules, these ones of interest are of the more familiar variety: carbon dioxide, naturally exhaled by man and absorbed by vegetation; water vapor, from the evaporation of the oceans; and methane, a gas naturally formed in the decaying of organic matter.

In some regions, river flow will be reduced or stopped all together. Other areas will experience sudden downpours that create massive floods. Coastal regions, where half the human population lives, will feel the effects of rising sea levels as the ice caps melt under rising ocean temperatures. Much of the land along the coasts would disappear, as would shallow barrier islands and coral reefs. The sea would reclaim the wetlands, where many species of marine life hatch their young. Forests and other wildlife might not have enough time to adjust to the rapidly changing climate. The warming will rearrange the entire biological community and cause many species to become extinct.

The negative effects of this rise is frightening, and may start effecting the planet very soon. When the planet warms, glaciers, and polar ice caps melt causing a rise in sea level. The melting of glaciers also removes many people of their clean water because 80% of all the people on Earth depend on the run-off from glaciers. The rise in sea level floods coast lines, destroying homes and buildings along the coast, and filling streets with water. This will force humans to have more densely populated cities that may become so overpopulated that diseases may start to spread quickly. With the water shortage and the extreme heat, deaths by dehydration and disease will become more common. If people don’t start to take action to reduce global warming, that could soon become the world we live in.

So far, the large majority of sea level rise has been caused by thermal expansion of the ocean. The Earth is warming up due to the warming effect of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere and more than 90% of the increased atmospheric heat is being absorbed by the ocean surface1. The ocean is getting warmer and as it warms, its density decreases but its mass stays relatively constant, therefore the volume increases and the sea level rises. The ocean’s density decreases when it gets warmer because the particles gain more energy so they move faster, pushing other particles away, there is more space between particles so density is decreased and volume is increased3. Global sea level is currently rising at a rate of 3.2mm per year1, mostly due to thermal expansion.

Global Warming has many opposing viewpoints. Some people might say that it is not a big deal and others say that it is a very important issue. In my opinion, it is critical that we pay attention to this issue and take it seriously, as well as take action. It is important that we, as humans try to help slow down the process of the Earth warming. There are many factors contributing to global warming. Humans are a huge part of it, and we might not even know it. A great amount of daily human activities supply large quantities of carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, which is the main reason for the increasing global temperature. Global warming is responsible for many disastrous environmental changes. The Earth is heating up and it is taking a huge toll on the environment, animals, and humans.

Global warming is a huge concern in society that is only growing bigger because people either are not well informed about it, or they are not concerned about it. Some think that it will just go away and others still believe that it doesn’t exist, even though there is hundreds if not thousands of pieces of evidence that supports otherwise. One of the biggest pieces of evidence that proves global warming is real is the effect that photosynthesis has on global warming.

Sea levels are rising due to oceans warming and expanding, which means that there will be less land surface.

One of the biggest problems facing mankind is global warming. More than 97 perecent of the world scientists believed that human activities mainly the burning of fossil fuel caused global warming. Exacerbated by global warming, the occurrence of extreme weather events such as hurricanes, droughts, rising sea level, floods,and heatwaves are becoming more frequent and sever. In the past two decades global warming induced extreme weather affected almost half of the world population. The scientific evidence is now clear that global warming is a growing threat to society. Hoping to reach a significant agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and contained the average rise in global temperature under 2C, leaders around the world have

Global warming has been deteriorating, and criticised by the entire world environmental organisations throughout the contemporary world. This phenomenon is mainly associated be human made pollutions and wastes emitted through the global industrialisation. Out of this global issue, modern architects has started to design architectures which included the concern of sustainability. Sustainable architecture can be divided in three different core parts: sustainable materials, sustainable construction and sustainable technologies. Moreover, sustainable architectural materials will be the aim in this report due to the reasons that exploring various types of sustainable architectural materials and how architects had applied those materials on the architecture design are always a popular topic, also materials would be an important section that people could be easily understood and noticed in their daily life. Furthermore, the research will be tended to focus on researching new kind of sustainable materials in the contemporary architectural world based in some article and books written by the architectural professionals, and seek for innovate sustainable materials that might have not been in common used for architecture. The research on this project aims to examine sustainability in architectural aspect, also, the advantage that sustainable architecture has been made in modern architecture.

Twenty thousand years ago, during the height of the most recent glacial period, ice sheets stretched from New York state across the Great Lakes to Wisconsin northward through most of Canada (Schneider 39). Mile-high domes of ice tied up so much fresh water that the oceans were some 100 meters lower than today. On a global basis, the world warmed up some five degrees Celsius from the beginning of the ice age’s rapid retreat over 15,000 years ago (39). The large and rapid climatic change affected the atmosphere, temperature, and water cycles. Research shows that planet Earth is in fact still warming. Senator Al Gore says this about global warming:

Global warming is no longer just a prediction it is actually happening. It is undisputed that the average temperature at the surface of Earth has increased over the past century by 1 degree Fahrenheit, with both the air and the oceans warming. Since 1880, when people in many locations first began to keep temperature records, the 25 warmest years have all occurred within the last 28 years. The problem is that if we keep on hurting our own environment and ecosystems we are just going to destroy ourselves sooner or later. If we don’t start to change the way we are doing things around the United States with our factories, the way we dispose of things, or the way we get affected by the pollution, we will see some major issues in the future. This paper will examine the problem of Global Warming in the United States. The paper will first discuss how global warming works, and why it is damaging not only our lives but the lives of the animals around the United States and other major issues. It will also address the consequences for global warming for such a long time of a period. Next the paper discusses three environmental solutions to the problem of global warming: wildlife affects, glaciers and sea levels, the weather patterns. The paper will first explain each global warming solution. Then it will analyze the pros and cons, and potential strengths and weakness of each solution. Last this paper will offer some personal observations of the

For someone who does not celebrate Christmas, December was enjoyably warm last year. My grandfather said he brought the warmth when he came back from Pakistan the month before; but for me, the outdoor activities that weekend were a guilty pleasure. I had daymares about sea levels rising and destroying the beautiful seacoast I have always called my home, my daughter growing up in a world lacking in luxuries that I have always had, cursing me for not taking care of the earth that she was to live on. I saved my grandpa the worry of what I know is a very serious problem: Global Warming(“What’s Behind the Freakishly Warm Winter in the Eastern U.S.?”).