Learn both sides of the global warming argument. Is global warming real? If global warming exists, is it caused by humans or nature?
Learn both sides of the global warming argument. Is global warming real? If global warming exists, is it caused by humans or nature?
The causes of global warming are many and effects are far more profound. What we have really witnessed in the last couple of decades is just the tip of the iceberg.
CAUSES
The main underlying cause of Global Warming is greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide (CO2). Every tree takes CO2 from the air during its growing process. When a tree dies or the wood decays then CO2 is again returned to the atmosphere. In the last couple of decades tropical forest have borne the brunt of major felling of trees and burning of wood, which has added more CO2 into the atmosphere.
Today deforestation has reached a stage where it cannot be turned back. In 1987, a major chunk of the Amazon forest was burnt and it was of the size of Britain. This released 500 million tons of CO2 into the atmosphere. The lesser the number of trees, the less CO2 will be absorbed.
EFFECTS
The effect of global warming will be catastrophic and if you look around you, then you will see some of the signs. If no action is taken now, then it will be too late as the greenhouse effect will slowly increase the average global temperature by 1.5 to 4.50C. This rise in temperature will affect the polar ice caps more than the tropical belt.
Winters will become warmer and the world will be hotter than what it was 100,000 years back. By the end of the next century, the temperatures would have soared very high and it will be tough for humans to survive. The last 15 years have been the ten hottest years since the 1860’s.
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April 15th, 2007 at 2:02 am
Out of all the greenhouse gases, CO2 makes up about 0.5% of the total. The largest greenhouse gas which makes up over 97% is water vapor. Global Warming is a hoax. It’s designed to take your liberties from you and tax your income away. Why is Mercury, Venus, Mars, the moons of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune and the once-called-planet of Pluto, heating up more than Earth. It’s not the SUV’s, Bush or you. Don’t be duped. Get the REAL facts.
April 15th, 2007 at 2:17 am
1.Global warming is real, but not manmade.
2.The warming of the earth causes an increase in the CO2 content of our atmosphere, not the other way around.
3.Human beings are in the single digits of co2 production. A lot more is produced by volcanos, dead leaves and in particular the sun’s interaction with the sea.
4.The sun is the main cause of the temperature change. Is the rise in Mars’s temperature rise similar to Earths also our fault?
5.In the 1970s we thought there would be global cooling and we turned out to be wrong.
6.A lot of people have a vested interest in global warming being true.
April 15th, 2007 at 9:23 pm
Actually, I am very open minded and I would think that you would also have to open your mind because weather you think the earth is heating because of human interaction or because of natural causes, the earth is heating. That does not mean were all going to die because until the 70’s people thought we were headed into an ice age so…
August 22nd, 2007 at 10:10 pm
Carbon dioxide, although accounting only for some 0.5%