Reconsider Drilling: The Greenhouse Effect

We have been concerned with the way you have been contributing to the growing amount of greenhouse gases being released into our Earth’s atmosphere. Although your corporation has taken some environmental initiatives, we would like to ask that you please reconsider drilling and refining oil because it is harming the environment. Oil spills are one thing, but climate change is another. Our ecosystem and climate is very fragile, and we only have one Earth. Ever since the industrial revolution in the 1700-1800s we have been releasing more and more amounts of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Science has proven that this is disastrous. The greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere trap the heat that comes from the sun, therefore gradually warming the Earth in a process called the Greenhouse Effect. Since 1880 to 2012, the average temperature of Earth has risen by 1.53 degrees Fahrenheit (0.85 degrees Celsius). Although it doesn’t sound like much, this temperature rise is melting ice in Antarctica and the Arctic. This …show more content…
Climate change is basically the overall change in climate due to global warming. Hurricanes, heavy rains, and floods, and prolonged droughts are a result of climate change. It is predicted that sea levels could rise anywhere from 7 to 23 inches (8 and 59 centimeters, respectively) by the end of this century because of climate change This will flood low-lying cities like Miami, Jakarta, Mumbai, and New Orleans, displacing millions of people. Unfortunately, mosquito-borne diseases like Zika and Malaria will spread from mosquitoes, which will become more abundant in the future. Due to climate change because climate change also makes the earth warmer and mosquitoes live in humid warm places, which also means they have more places to lay their eggs creating more mosquitos. The World Health Organization estimated that 12.6 million died from climate-change related