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Global Warming And Its Effects

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Did you know that the United States is the largest source for global warming pollution (NRDC)? Although American’s make up only 4 percent of the world’s population, we still produce 25 percent of the carbon dioxide pollution (NRDC). That is more than China, India, and Japan combined (NRDC). There is a huge debate on whether or not global warming exists, but there is an even bigger debate on what the cause of this climate change is. I argue that with the increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, humans play a huge part in the causation of global warming.
There are many definitions for global warming, but there is one common definition that many scientists can agree on. Global warming is “an increase in the earth 's atmospheric and oceanic temperatures widely predicted to occur due to an increase in the greenhouse effect resulting especially from pollution” (Merriam-Webster). It is believed to be caused by many gases gathering together, creating a thick blanket in the earth’s atmosphere, and raising the earth’s temperature. According to S.M. Enzler MSc, Svante Arrhenius suggested in 1896, there would be a relationship between the carbon dioxide concentration on earth and its temperature. Arrhenius then did research with Thomas Chamberlin and predicted that human activities and their release of carbon dioxide would warm up the earth’s atmosphere (en. Enzler). They predicated then that humans would have a huge influence on the climate change. After a while the topic of

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