What Causes Global Warming?

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One summer morning I rose from my bed and quickly put on clothes. As I went outside in the early morning I noticed that I was already poring sweat because it was so hot out. I looked at the thermostat outside and it read 95 degrees Fahrenheit; I was shocked and couldn’t believe it. What causes these outrageous temperatures and why all of sudden was it becoming unbearable to be outside? Global warming has been a huge topic in recent years around the world. There are only two factors that could be causing global warming: Mother Nature or the human population. Humans are the reason why our earth temperatures are rising and if we do not do anything to stop the temperatures from rising; it will eventually become impossible for human life to survive on earth.
Although humans do play a huge influence on Global Warming, so does Mother Nature. The increases in earth’s temperatures are causing many glacial ice caps to begin to diminish. Some glacial ice caps are diminishing faster than others. Phillip Stott, who is a professor at the University of London, states Mother Nature will do what Mother Nature wants, we do not have any control over her (396). The human population cannot control what Mother Nature does. Darryl Fears, an environmentalist, argues that global warming is caused by natural causes. Fears continues that methane gas, which is a greenhouse gas, is released from the arctic tundra and wetlands every day. Human actions are not causing the environment to release methane gas it is just releasing it naturally. Not only is the environment releasing methane gas, but the earth rotation isn’t helping global warming either. The earth does not attain perfect rotation. As the earth spins it actually wobbles which exposes the northern a...

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.... We debate and debate what we should do to slow down global warming, but nothing is happening. We need to start acting and stop talking about what we are going to do. The world needs to become more energy efficient and stop relying on fossil fuels to power the world. Once we become more energy efficient the amount of C02 that is dispersed in the atmosphere will significantly decrease. The population can also contribute to helping the decrease of C02 emissions by recycling, carpooling, and conserving on the amount of trees are being cut down. We cannot do anything about the natural releasing of methane that occurs on a day to day basis by Mother Nature, but if we do our part then we will not have to worry about what Mother Nature is doing. If the human population puts their mind to it we can slow down global warming and be able to see many more generations live on.

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