Positive And Negative Effects Of Global Warming

Global warming refers to the steady increase in the temperature of the earth and its oceans. Global warming is as a result of both natural factors and human activities. Research indicates that there is a correlation between the rising temperatures and the increase in the levels of gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, and chlorofluorocarbons in the earth’s atmosphere (Cooper, M.). The levels of these gases continue to increase due to human activity. This increase results in the Greenhouse effect. The Greenhouse effect significantly contributes to global warming. The effects of global warming include changing weather patterns, higher temperatures within the earth’s atmosphere, melting of glaciers and rising ocean levels. These consequences pose a threat to human lives as well as continuity of ecosystems. Global warming is effecting in people’s health especially the children, that’s why the scientists are trying to reduce the global warming. However, the factories are the biggest cause of global warming. These days, I see that a lot of people still do not believe that global warming exist, so they do not care about the environment and that’s a big problem that may lead to the end of the world.

Imagine longer summers, shorter winters, with no spring or fall in between. Well you don't have too, because it's happening right now. It will only take one more degree for spring and fall to be gone forever. This decade has been the warmest since 1880. Scientist say that the earth could be warmer by an additional 7.2 degrees Fahrenheit by the 21st century if we don’t reduce usage of burning fossil fuels. Climate change also adds additional risks to our food supplies scientists say they are already seeing the harmful effects in some regions. Polar ice melting would become another major affect of global warming if it isn’t stopped which could cause problems for many lives on Earth not just human beings.

As global warming continues to rise and endangers the world, humans within the United States should raise up and prevent this problem by reducing our carbon footprint to stabilize our world. As long as global warming is still within the world, it will threaten the human race as well as every other organism. There are many ways to prevent this destruction from occurring such as controlling our carbon footprint, reducing CO2 emissions and changing our lifestyles. If everyone contributes to these methods, we can reduce global warming and save the world for more generations.

The real inconvenient truth is this: people do not cause global warming. The Earth is naturally warming itself, and this is sending humankind into a panic. Even if people were causing global warming, there are many more advantages to the warming climate than disadvantages. Why scientists are taking this issue and blowing it out of proportions is baffling. There are many different ways to look at the argument, and few turn to actual science. The Earth may be warming, but this natural phenomenon may not be as catastrophic as widely believed.

The US population is increasing at a rapid rate of 2.1 million per year” and with it, are many issues that plague the world. Because of overpopulation, scientists have had to increase the production of food and materials. These processes have affected the environment and caused global warming. Global warming is when the overall temperature of earth’s atmosphere increases slowly, typically because of the greenhouse effect caused by the rising level of carbon dioxide gases in the air and other pollutants. Some examples of carbon dioxide gases are fossil fuels like coal, oil, and gas. Global warming has a negative effect on the environment because there are many environmental changes, vegetation’s growth is debilitated, natural disasters are more prevalent, and animals are becoming extinct.

Global warming is the increase of the Earth's atmosphere’s overall temperature, caused by the greenhouse effect, that includes increased levels of carbon dioxide, chlorofluorocarbons, and other pollutants. There have been several indications that global warming is caused by humans. For example, the burning of fossil fuels, like coal to heat a home, causing greenhouse gases^4. There are a lot of arguments that global warming is a hoax, but with science backing the global warming case, it is actually happening, and it is in the early stages that i could possibly be reversed if the human race act now.

Global Warming is in the minds of critical thinkers and scientist as well as the Industrial World. In this paper, we will look at man-made causes of Global Warming, and natural causes in Global Warming Affects. The man- made cause would be (GHC) which abbreviates to greenhouse gases and the chemical (SO2) represents sulfur dioxide from cars and Industry. The natural cause in the climate would direct more to a cooler climate. The Global Warming remains,augmented that one is man-made causing the warming or a natural occurrence trending from the earth’s rotation or other explanations. The first topic is the effect man- made contributes to Global Warming.

Through the decades’ people are seeing the effects on this planet that have been caused by climate change. But people are unaware that these weather patterns are abnormal, and need to be fixed before it is too late. There are major droughts, and record breaking high temperatures in places like California and in the Middle East while there are floods and hurricanes in Houston and Florida. The world seems like it is falling apart slowly, but some even wonder if there is enough evidence to prove that it is happening because of climate change, or global warming. Some people argue that it is just a hoax, and the earth is perfectly fine. However, it is a big coincidence that most people that say it is a hoax are gaining money by tearing down forests and polluting the air. The world population needs to be aware that some of the natural disasters happening are because of global warming. This planet’s climate and environment has been deteriorating, and it is not a coincidence that this is happening because of fracking, deforestation, and pollution. Some scientists believe it is too late to reverse the damage that we have done to Earth while some other scientists believe there is still a small window to at least slow down the effects that will happen. People are at fault for Earth’s climate change. It is crucial that the people try as much as they can to help stop climate change, so kids of the future do not have to live on an ugly and disastrous planet.

Global Warming has been devastating the earth and economy for the last twenty-five years. Greenhouse gasses developed from the production of chemicals such as R-22, oil, and factories have destroyed ozone and ecosystems for the last hundred years. Carbon dioxide is produced naturally and absorbed by plants and animals, but, too much, and it is deadly. With the increase in automobiles and production, the world government has begun to address the issue of greenhouse gasses with limits and requirements for larger nations, creating higher impacts of production and driving. Global warming has become a major concern for the economy because the increased temperatures have caused degradation of permafrost, ocean levels and temperatures to rise, and plants to grow at an uncontrolled rate.

Since the industrial revolution, scientists keep telling the story that the earth is not what most people might think back then: “a mother”, to be feared and respected. Instead, science today gives man godlike power; the earth is a machine, and we are its engineer, masters. We can change the earth like Lego blocks; we extract from it whatever we want to make use of, without needing to think about the consequences on environment, animals, or people. Humans caused global warming. With the economy that was built to deny any responsibility for the environment and cover up the truth behind their disgusting selfishness, it is hard to start fixing the environment when many people do not even believe a problem exists. I believe that it all came from the overwhelming power of the industry to lie and blind people from what is right there. Related to “Two Economies” by Wendell Berry, the economy that we have is an economy without value; I learned the lesson from history, nothing without value can survive as time goes on. Many may still believe in the industrial revolution but to me it is definitely the end of the world.

Global warming is the observed increase in the average temperature of the Earth's atmosphere and oceans. Higher temperatures threaten dangerous consequences: drought, disease, floods, and lost ecosystems. From sweltering heat to rising seas, global warming's effects have already begun. Many people still believe that since the earth is so big, human beings cannot possibly have any major impact on the way the planet operates. The truth is we have grown so numerous and our technologies have become so powerful that we are now capable of having a significant influence on many parts of the earth's environment (Gore 22). Without the help of the human race, and the listening ears of our politicians, we are going to leave this extreme crisis to the next generation.

During the 20th and 21st century there has been growing concern about CO2 emissions and their toll on the environment. Human activities have largely increased the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, particularly CO2. With the increase in greenhouse gases, the temperatures on Earth have risen due to the gases’ ability to trap of heat. This increase in temperature has had many detrimental side effects on ecosystems. For instance, global warming has resulted in the melting of ice in the southern and northern latitudes, destroy valuable habitat and creating strain on the organisms that live there (Frolicher and Joos, 2010). A result of this melting of ice in the higher latitudes has caused sea levels to rise. Furthermore, with more emissions of CO2 there has been greater absorption of CO2 by the oceans. When CO2 is in the ocean it reacts to produce carbonate ions and H+ ions leading to ocean acidification. Major effects of ocean acidification are already being seen; mollusks, coral, and echinoderms that have shells composed of calcium carbonate are eroding away due to acidification (Kerr, 2010). Ocean acidification, climate change, habitat loss, and extinction of species will continue if there is no change in CO2 emissions. Such changes could be catastrophic on fragile ecosystems.

Damage caused by environmental destruction is often very subtle which tends to influence the scale of harm based on the crimes that are caused by individual wrongs. Environmental damaged that is caused by just one individual is exclusively minor which causes it to be unnoticed, whereas a major group of people harming the environment at once causes major harm to society. In the last few decades, there has been a heightened awareness of environmental issues by governments, policy makers, advocacy groups, business firms, and the public all over the world. More than a century of industrial development has caused negative environmental impacts such as global warming, ozone depletion, and air and water pollution. These are recognized as global environmental problems that need immediate solutions. International environmental agreements, government environmental policies and regulation, industry environmental management practices, and pro-environmental consumer behavior are some ways of addressing environmental problems. Global warming, is one of the most noticeable example of worldwide corporate environmental impact. The corporate role in this, the potentially most severe and all-encompassing of environmental disasters, is quite clear.

Effects and damages caused by Global Warming are in evidence from the decimated polar bear environment due to the melting polar ice caps to the south sea islands that are slowly disappearing as a result of rising sea levels, but it is often difficult to distinguish those changes locally. Here in the Ohio River Valley, the effects of climate change might not be as drastic as other places, but changes have occurred and will continue unless changes are made. The Ohio River Valley is the area of land that drains into the Ohio River at any point. It spans 15 states and supports 27 million people, or 10% of the population, with drinking water, jobs and recreational opportunities. This area is a unique ecosystem that supports nearly half of the fresh water fishes and over 1/3 of the mussel species in the United States. The burning of fossil fuels has contributed to climate change in the Ohio River Valley which in turn has affected agriculture, compromised water sources, contributed to health issues amongst the population, affected the current energy supply and has caused extreme weather events.

There are some compounds present in our atmosphere, mainly in gaseous form, that plays the most vital role in the existence of life in this planet. Had these gases not been present in our atmosphere, planet earth would have been nothing but an ice ball and virtually the existence of life would have been impossible. These life savior gases are known as greenhouse gases. These gases have the capacity of absorbing infrared radiation and maintaining the earth’s temperature by trapping and holding the heat energy from the absorbed infrared radiation, this phenomenon itself is called greenhouse effect (livesciences.com). The recent human activity, especially the industrialization has resulted in production of too much of these greenhouse gases resulting a higher concentration of gases in the atmosphere causing excessive greenhouse effect. This has resulted in a gradual increase of the average temperature in earth’s surface and is commonly known as global warming, which is one of the biggest problem that is threatening the very existence of each and every life living in the planet earth (nasa.gov). The issue of global warming, if not addressed in timely manner is guaranteed to bring severe consequences and certain changes in existing laws, policies and lifestyle could make huge difference in the reduction of greenhouse that ultimately helps keep earth safe and sustainable for all of us and the many generations to come.