Global Warming: A Threat To Americans And Our Planet

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What is global warming? What causes it? Who or what does it affect? Is it a threat to Americans and our universe? There are many different answers to these questions that people don’t know or think about. Global warming is affecting us in many ways, good and bad that we don’t notice. Based on the effects of global warming reported it affects us more bad than good in my perspective. Weather is what we experience each day. Climate is the sum of all weather’s over a certain period of time for a region or for the planet as a whole. Global warming is an increase in these overall temperatures of the earth’s atmosphere. During the twentieth century, the earth’s temperature rose one degree Fahrenheit to its highest- level in the past four centuries- believed to be the fastest rise in a thousand years. This increase may seem like a little but if it continues to increase this fast this is a danger to earth’s atmosphere. There are many causes …show more content…

Global warming has cause some animal to become extinct, forest fires, and even effected our plants greatly. Global warming is not just one thing it includes many different events dealing with the planet. Global warming includes; climate changes, droughts, floods, storms, tornados, and change in atmospheric temperature. As global warming increases the things, places, and people it affects increases also. The weather and climate changes caused by global warming affect humans in more ways than they think. Many people don’t see these global warming increases as harmful. Global warming increases smog pollution in some areas and makes asthma and pollen allergies worst. Weather changes such as hotter weather also increase more periods of droughts in some areas ceasing crop production to decrease.These rising temperatures also allow disease- carrying mosquitos to spread and survive in formerly inhospitable

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