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The Problem Of Global Change

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Global change is happening on Earth and is affecting the Polar Regions, especially Greenland. There are many things that global change is doing; temperatures rising, ice melting, and water levels rising. Temperature rising affects the ice melting, the heating of the Earth, and the weather. The melting of the ice affects sea levels rising and affects the temperature rising. Finally, sea level rising affects the climate and more temperature rising. These issues are and will continue to affect the Earth, badly.
Temperature rising is the main problem for ice melting, which ice melting is a problem for water levels rising, but what is the main problem for temperature rising? Humans. We have been causing global change by burning fossil fuels. The article Open Mind commented on the temperatures before the industrial revolution and after: “The world has already warmed 1C (degree Celsius, equal to 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) above what it was before the industrial revolution…The prevailing view is that warming by 2C above pre-industrial means dangerous climate change, although lately many are coming to believe that even going 1.5C above pre-industrial is dangerous.” (Open Mind [updated 2016]). Open Mind also stated that there is a trend, that temperature was rising since 1970 and that “the trend will continue. Upward.” (Open Mind [updated 2016]).
Temperatures are also rising in the troposphere, where weather exist. Open Mind states the same pattern in the troposphere; “the red line is

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