preview

The Causes Of Global Warming And Climate Change

Good Essays
Open Document

Climate change When the Earth’s atmosphere is slowly increasing in temperature due to rising levels of carbon dioxide, chlorofluorocarbons, and other pollutants, it is called global warming. The Earth’s climate has begun to change ever since the spark of the industrial revolution where coal was heavily utilized to propel factories and railroads, resulting greenhouse gas emissions to be sped up. Temperatures around the globe becomes warmer and a Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius suggested the cause was the buildup of CO2 in the atmosphere. Around 1979-1985, international conferences on climate change were created to address problems of global warming and prevent possible man-made changes in climate and people are still trying to solve this at the present day. Therefore, global warming has a cause and effect from one area to the next hence, it is an urgent complication and needs to be resolved collaboratively by all nations. Many climate scientists accept the main source of the existing global warming is human increase of the “greenhouse effect”. The greenhouse effect is a natural course that heats the Earth’s surface. When the energy of the sun reaches the Earth’s atmosphere, some of it is reflected to space and the rest gets absorbed by the land, ocean, greenhouse gas. Now the absorbed energy heats up the surface of the Earth and atmosphere to maintain Earth’s temperature and make the planet habitable, however, in the current atmosphere, the problem is human activity

Get Access