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    “Global warming is an increase in the earth's temperature due to fossil fuels, industry, and agricultural processes caused by human, natural, and other gas emissions” (EPA). Our world has gone through several stages in its lifetime. It takes time to deal and cope with changes, just like anything else. Over the years, the earth has been gradually getting warmer due to pollution. Humans, however, were slow to take the necessary actions to prevent it from getting any worse. Due to the ignorance of people

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    the Earth’s atmosphere? The condition known as Global Warming occurs. Global Warming is the rising of the Earth’s surface temperature due to chemicals in the atmosphere. Global Warming has many threats on the climate and even the health of the people on this planet. Some of these threats include the altering of crop seasons and even effect the way organisms survive on the planet. The first thing I think I should discuss when talking about global warming is what causes it to occur. Gases such as

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    Global warming is when the temperature rises in the earth's atmosphere .Global warming happens when carbon dioxide (CO2) and other air pollutants and greenhouse gasses gather in the climate .They go away but these pollutants can last for years to centuries in the atmosphere because it traps the heat so it makes earth get hotter . .Controlling hazardous environmental change requires deep cuts in emissions , and also the utilization of other options to fossil fuels around the world. Global warming

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    Global warming is having a huge effect in today’s world, and for that we must do something about it. The main causes of global warming are, burning coal and other fossil. CO2(carbon dioxide) is one of the seven greenhouse gases in our atmosphere and accounts for 84 percent of greenhouse gases produced by human activity. The majority of this is from burning fossil fuels for electricity and transportation. Our Earth is suffering because of people in China producing so much pollution to the extent

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    The Slowdown of Global Warming The recent decrease in the heating percentage of the Northern Hemisphere could be a consequence of internal variability of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation -- a natural phenomenon associated with ocean surface temperatures, according to Penn State investigators. "Some researchers have in the past attributed a portion of Northern Hemispheric warming to a warm phase of the AMO," said Michael E. Mann, Distinguished Professor of Meteorology. "The true AMO signal

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    Essay on Global Warming

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    Global Warming   Even before Homo erectus first stood up on his hind legs, humans have had an enormous influence over the environment and atmosphere. They have used land, oceans, and other natural resources to help further their expansion and growth. Unfortunately, while the human race flourished, the atmosphere and environment did not. Humans released toxins into the air with their large-scale fires and killed many species to extinction. However, global warming is one of the largest and most

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    Global Warming has been devastating the earth and economy for the last twenty-five years. Greenhouse gases developed from the production of chemicals such as R-22, oil, and factories have been destroying o-zone and ecosystems. Carbon dioxide is developed naturally and absorbed by plants and animals, but, too much, and it good be deadly. With the increase in automobiles and production, the world government has begun to address the issue of greenhouse gases with limits and requirements for larger nations

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    Global warming is defined “as an increase in the average temperature of global surface air and oceans since about 1950” (White). The global warming controversy is an ongoing dispute with two main sides; one stating that the direct cause to global warming is through people’s daily activities and the burning of fossil fuels, while other people all around the world refuse to believe that human contributions are the main cause, saying that the earth is going through a natural stage of climatic change

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    Causes Of Global Warming

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    Global warming Global warming is a gradual process of heating of earth’s surface and whole environment including oceans, ice caps, etc. The global rise in atmospheric temperature has been clearly noticed in the recent years. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, in the past century there is increase in the earth’s surface average temperature by around 1.4-degree Fahrenheit. It has also been estimated that global temperature may increase by another 2 to 11.5 degrees F in the next century

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    Global warming is the heating of the earth at an unnatural pace due to humans. The world regularly undergoes eras of warming and cooling, the current event is due to humans and is happening more rapidly than ever before. Bill Freedman (2014) stated that, "...increases in global temperatures are due to human activity (i.e., not due to solar variations, volcanic activity, cyclic warming or cooling trends, etc.) …" This means that the warming of the earth is only global warming when it is caused

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