Informative Essay: Does Global Climate Change Real?

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Is global climate change real? Although many scientific experts believe that it is in fact real, there is still a percentage of people who consider it to be a rather fictitious idea. It has been a question of continuous debate and will always continue to be, until one day it hits us in the face and changes our environment and the way we live so drastically that life as we once knew would be history. Then the question is going to be, why didn’t we do anything? Even though there is a percentage of people who deny it, the evidence coming to light that is in favor of climate change is overwhelming. Sea levels rising, global temperatures rising, ocean temperatures increasing, sheets of ice shrinking, ocean acidification, and glacial retreats are all compelling pieces of evidence that prove not only that climate change is a real thing but that we also need to act to try to reverse it before it is to late.
“Most climate scientists agree the main cause of the current global warming trend is human expansion of the greenhouse effect,” which is the, “warming that results when the atmosphere traps heat radiating from Earth toward space.”(“Global Climate Change”) Many gases we are releasing into the atmosphere such as water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and chlorofluorocarbons are all known as greenhouse gases,
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“The Earth 's climate has changed throughout history. Just in the last 650,000 years there have been seven cycles of glacial advance and retreat, with the abrupt end of the last ice age about 7,000 years ago marking the beginning of the modern climate era — and of human civilization.”(“Global Climate Change”) However, “the current warming trend is of particular significance because most of it is very likely human-induced and proceeding at a rate that is unprecedented in the past 1,300 years.” (“Global Climate

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