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Pros And Cons Of Global Warming

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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.
There are two sides on what has caused global warming; chemistry, and the physical aspects. In specifics, the greenhouses are collected in the atmosphere, absorbing sunlight and solar radiation that have bounced off of the earth’s surface, and can’t escape, so the air pollutants keep absorbing, and gaining heat, instead of escaping into outer space^4. Carbon dioxide, which is a byproduct of combustion of fossil fuels, which is where humans burn coal and oil to heat homes, and use in vehicles. In the reaction of burning fossil fuels, O2 reacts with glucose and the end product is water, carbon dioxide and energy, shown in the chemical reaction below^2:

6 O2 + C6H12O6 --------> 6 H2O + 6 CO2 + energy

Methane works in several different ways, but the largest impact would be rice paddies that are used to feed humans. Since there is a high demand in food, the methane produced of off

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