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Global Warming And Climate Change Essay

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Humanity’s Effect on Global Warming and Climate Change Global warming and climate change have been frequent topics of discussion over the past several years. Although people tend to focus on the politics, it is time to look past the media aspects of it and into the cold hard facts of what our Earth is currently experiencing, and what caused it in the first place. The cause of climate change includes natural causes, but human causes are what is generating such a rapid global change. It’s time that the ways in which humanity affects the Earth’s climate, how scientists record and measure the climate change, and what can be done in everyday life to slow it down and/or stop global warming, are recognized. There are two main human causes of Earth’s global warming and climate change. The first of which being the greenhouse effect. According to Brian Black in the book Global Warming, the greenhouse effect is the tendency of Earth’s atmosphere to admit the Sun’s radiation but partly retain the low-frequency heat radiation (3). Human activity has changed our greenhouse, especially over the course of the last 150 years due to industrialization. By the burning of fossil fuels, such as coal, petroleum, and oil, carbon dioxide is released into our atmosphere, and heat is trapped in. These gases are typically …show more content…

National Geographic credits agriculture for being the main reason deforestation occurs. The importance of our planet’s forests is highly underestimated. Without trees and forests, greenhouse gases cannot be absorbed and are therefore left in the atmosphere. Deforestation cannot solely be blamed on human activity, as it is also a part of the natural causes that influence climate change, but, humans societal needs for wood and paper are a detrimental part of the issue. Also, deforestation actually creates more carbon dioxide than cars do (Scientific American, Deforestation and Global

In this essay, the author

  • Argues that it's time to look beyond the media and into the cold hard facts of what our earth is currently experiencing, and what caused it.
  • Explains that the greenhouse effect is the tendency of earth’s atmosphere to admit the sun's radiation but partly retain the low-frequency heat radiation. human activity has changed our greenhouse, especially over the last 150 years due to industrialization.
  • Explains that humans have caused the majority of greenhouse gas emissions in recent years, mostly by the constant use of electricity, transportation, industry and agriculture.
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