Global Warming
...the world, the issues of global warming are arising everyday. Many people are experiencing the effects due to global warming at this very moment. Global warming is an increase in the earth's atmosphere due to both natural and human activities. In turn, this results in an increased amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Various causes of global warming have resulted in changes in the earth's conditions such as glacial melting, coastal flooding and deterioration, and other weather related upheavals.
One major effect of global warming is glacial melting. Global warming results from the greenhouse gases, which have elevated the levels of glacial melt. Some causes of increased greenhouse gases include the burning of fossil fuels from cars and factories, excessively increases carbon dioxide levels. The greenhouse effect scatters sunlight like clouds. Baliunas says this in turn leads to an increase in an atmospheric temperature of
" 0.5 to 1.5 degrees Celsius'" (qtd. in Cooper 3). With the increase of the temperature, the melting of ice increases. For example, Marcia Clemmitt states from other sources that "the number of glaciers in Montana's Glacier National Park has dropped from 150 when the park was created in 1910 to fewer than 30 today, all greatly shrunken" (2). Another example Clemmitt gives us states that "the legendary snows of Mount Kilimanjaro have melted about 80 percent since 1912 and could be gone by 2020" (2).
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A second major effect of global warming is coastal deterioration. Coastal deterioration results from an increase in rising sea water levels from the melting of glaciers and polar ice caps. Dr. Tom M.L. Wigley states that "by the end of the next century, the oceans will rise by 39 inches while earth's temperature could rise as much as 7 degrees Fahrenheit" (Gelbspan 5). With these significant rises in sea levels,...
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