Global warming has been a hot topic for many governments in the last 20 years, with scientists on both sides of the issue. With many of the information that comes out is hard to common people to understand, it can make it hard for them to know what is true and what is not. There are some scientists that have been saying for many years that the way we like is causing a Green House effect on Earth. In simple terms, you think of a green house, farmers use greenhouses to trap warm air so they can grow
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as the cause of global warming. "Earth's climate is now clearly out of balance and is warming," according to the first paragraph of the new statement by the American Geophysical Union. The statement cites many components of the Earth system that are changing at unnatural rates, including rising global temperatures, ice melt, sea level rise and the distribution of precipitation around the globe. "The facts are well-established now that the Earth's climate is warming," said Bette Otto-Bliesner
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Global Warming is a major problem which our environment faces today terribly. This global warming is caused due to Greenhouse Effect which is a condition in which Earth’s heat trapping increases more from the normal levels. Climate change, devastation of the ecosystem, melting ice over Arctic and Antarctic regions, negative impacts in the agricultural sector are just the problems caused by global warming. Many damages have been caused by this phenomenon. Policies on global warming are made each day
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Global warming means a gradual increase in the Earth's average lower atmosphere due to emissions and build up of greenhouse gases . Global warming is when the earth heats up and the temperature rises. It happens when greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, water vapor, nitrous oxide, and methane trap heat and light from the sun in the earth’s atmosphere, which increases the temperature. Greenhouse gases are released mostly by the burning of fossil fuels for transportation, heating, electrical
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at global and regional level (Heru, 2008).Globally, climate change affects hydro-meteorological characteristics, in the form of quality and quantitative changes (Soojun, 2016).According to IPCC, (2007) an example of global climate change is global warming, the rise of average temperature and ,wide speed melting of snow and glaciers, and the rise of the earth’s sea level, which has been observed and measured. Quantitative and qualitative
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Global warming means the rise in the mean global temperature to a level which affects the life-forms on the earth surface. The factors responsible for this warming may be both natural and man made. Warming of the globe due to natural factors is not an unusual phenomenon. The earth's climate is variable. For example, about 18,000 years ago, the earth was about 5°C cooler than it is today. That was the last glacial period on the earth. There after, the global temperature began to rise. The earth
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Global warming means the rise in the mean global temperature to a level which affects the life-forms on the earth surface. The factors responsible for this warming may be both natural and man made. Warming of the globe due to natural factors is not an unusual phenomenon. The earth's climate is variable. For example, about 18,000 years ago, the earth was about 5°C cooler than it is today. That was the last glacial period on the earth. There after, the global temperature began to rise. The earth
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There is now little doubt that global warming and climate change are the result of human activity. This has happened because of a failure in policy by governments and a lack of concern for wasted energy by individuals. It is almost universally accepted that climate change is the of a number of environmental failings. Perhaps the most important of these is how fuels such as gas and coal are still the main source of power. This is a problem because their use means that a large amount of CO2
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Wabash Watershed Wabash Watershed (1961-1990) Introduction Global warming is a resultant of Heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere. The release of these gases has increased in the last 500 years since the industrial revolution. There is an expectation that global warming will result to rising sea levels, droughts, fires, heat waves, extreme storms, heavy rainfall, floods, and melting of snow and ice. These changes as envisaged would affect agriculture and general food availability with devastating
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Global warming What is the greenhouse effect, and is it affecting our climate? The greenhouse effect is unquestionably real, and is essential for life on Earth. It is the result of heat absorption by certain gases in the atmosphere (called greenhouse gases because they trap heat) and re- radiation downward of a part of that heat. Water vapor is the
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