GLOBAL WARMING

What is Global Warming?

“Most climate scientist agree the main cause of

the current global warming trend is human

expansion of the green house effect” (Oreskes).

Green house effect is warming that results from

the atmosphere trapping heat radiating from

Earth toward space.

• Carbon Dioxide:

Up 406.94 parts per

million

• Global

Temperature:

Up 1.7 degrees

Fahrenheit since 1880

• Artic Ice:

Down 13.2 percent

per decade

• Land Ice:

Down 286.0

gigatons per year

We are facing a very rapid change in the

global temperature. Just last month

September 2017 it was .80 degrees Celsius

warmer than the average September since

1980. NASA has taken this information from

over 6,300 meteorological stations around

the world. This information is proof that

global warming is happening and is a threat

to life on Earth.

For centuries the carbon dioxide levels have

never been this high. Since the Industrial

Revolution started and we started to produce

energy from burning fossil fuels such as coal

and oil, carbon dioxide levels have spiked

significantly. No other species on Earth have

created such a threat to life as humans have in

the last 100 years.

With all this evidence around us that global

warming is a real threat, there are still people that

deny climate change is even happening. People of

Miami are already feeling the effect from global

warming. When ever high tides happen it floods

the city. They have constructed pumps to help

keep the water out of the city but that can only

help for a short amount of time you can not pump

out the ocean when it is constantly flooding the

city. Concerned citizens and activists are trying to

make a point to government, who are denying

global warming including the senator.

This picture represents what would happen

if the entire Greenland ice sheets were to

melt. It represent 6m or about 20 feet of sea

rise would flood these cities along the coast

line. Greenland’s ice sheets contain enough

water to raise sea level by 5-7 meters or

(16-23feet). Even partial melting of these

ice sheets would cause sea levels to raise 3

feet.

The effects from global climate change are going

to be catastrophic. We are already seeing what

climate changes effects are, for example California

is having more frequent and severe wild fires.

Places all over the world that are suffering from

drought mainly because of deforestation. Tropical

storms are becoming more intense and

devastating. Just this year we have had multiple cat.

5 hurricanes hit land

Within just over a hundred

years our planet has heated

up 4 degrees Fahrenheit. The

picture in blue represents the

cooler planet before the

1900’s. The image in red

shows our world in 2016 it is

much hotter then what it use

to be in a very short amount

of time.

One of the most biggest impact from global

warming is coral bleaching. Our ocean is

dying because of global warming without the

ocean there is no life. Our ocean absorbs 93%

of the heat created by global warming. With

our coral reefs there are no fish. The amount of

carbon dioxide the ocean is absorbing it is

making the water poison and creating the

water acidity very high. There is still time to

act but time is running out very quickly if we

don’t change our ways soon we are going to

deal with very catastrophic consequences

Images:

https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2640/s

eptember-2017-was-fourth-warmest-

september-on-record/

https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2

014/jul/11/miami-drowning-climate-

change-deniers-sea-levels-rising

Mellimage/Shutterstock.com,

Montree Hanlue/Shutterstock.com.

https://climate.nasa.gov/interactives/

climate-time-machine

https://blog.education.nationalgeogra

phic.com/2014/03/31/new-report-on-

climate-change/

Works Cited:

https://climate.nasa.gov/causes/

https://climate.nasa.gov/interact

ives/climate-time-machine

https://blog.education.nationalg

eographic.com/2014/03/31/new

-report-on-climate-change/

http://www.globalcoralbleachin

g.org/