The Role Of Global Warming In America

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Millions of lights and computers are abandoned on in empty offices, apartments and houses, every day. It is found by the Environmental activists that simply switching them off could reduce America’s greenhouse gas emissions by five percent over the next year.
Per capita, America is one of the world’s chief producers of carbon dioxide and other gases that many scientists believe are helping to warm the Earth’s atmosphere, which results in climate disturbance.
A long-standing drought and serious water shortages in America have focused much awareness on climate change. Some experts warn higher temperatures could leave this nation of 20 million people at the mercy of more severe droughts and devastating tropical cyclones.
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