Effects of Global Warming on the Environment

constant, or is observed over a much longer period of time. As it is, the longevity of climate is decreasing – slowly but alarmingly – due to the actions of man. Climate is related to the existence of the Greenhouse Effect. The Greenhouse Effect is known as “a general warming effect felt on Earth’s surface, produced by greenhouse gases” (EPA Glossary). These greenhouse gases include methane, ozone, chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide (CO2). These…

for our environment. currently, there is an argument on consumerism which is causing so many problems. It is causing a surplus in food production, and consumers are spending a lot of money on food that they want, rather than on what they need. In the documentary, “Wasted” filmmaker Karim Chorbog, discusses the strict food laws in Korea versus the lenient laws in the U.S. Chorbog notes that laws are being made due to heavy food wastage to save the landfills, waterways, and the environment. He…

Due to the constant emission of harmful chemicals, such as carbon, into the atmosphere, the climate and the environment as it was once known to mankind is changing. Many scientists have come to the conclusion of that there is no way to help prevent climate change or help repair the atmosphere. Unfortunately, our planet will never be the way it was before, even if we were to watch how much carbon is released into the atmosphere, and because of this many countries do not see why they should change…

Global warming is an issue that often doesn’t receive enough attention. Deforestation is among the leading causes of global warming. Deforestation is the clearing of trees and forest to make room commercial uses such as shopping malls, houses, and businesses. While this may not seem like an urgent issue in this country, we have to realize that the United States is one of the leading countries when it comes to deforestation only behind countries such as Brazil, Canada, and Russia. It is estimated…

period nonetheless, started a long time ago. What we all face today is the consequence of ‘Global Warming’, the result of our delays, isindeed catastrophic. The movie “An Inconvenient Truth” by Davis Guggenheim highlights Al Gore’s lecture circuit, as the former presidential candidate who campaigns to raise public awareness of the dangers of global warming and calls for immediate action in order to avoid its effects by showing a comparison between the past environmental conditions and in the…

Climate change refers to the increase in global temperatures. Among the contributors to the rise in temperature is from human activity itself. Warm planets leads and cause the temperature changes and also affect the weather in many ways. Land and sea temperatures are one way to measure the effects of climate change. A global warming has the potential to alter patterns of rain and snowfall, causing severe storms and droughts, reduced ice on the lake, glaciers melts, rising sea levels, and changes…

What is Climate Change? Climate change has been a subject of discussion in the media for many years, supported with the use of arguments against oil polluting the environment and extreme scare tactics of Polar icecaps flooding civilians backyards. The issue has been ignored by the majority of laypeople as seeming too complicated, and with all the conflicting information in the media in the past, who can blame theme? However, scientifically, climate change and what perpetrates it is fairly…

The aspect of “global change” has become a very recognizable issue. People all over the world have become aware of the many issues contributing to the planet’s decline and unsustainable future. These environmental changes are continuously being researched and addressed, but no one really understands the extreme effects of this global change. The most vulnerable concept is the change in climate. The ATEAM project conducted by M.J. Metzger, M.D.A. Rounsevell, L. Acosta-Michlik, R. Leemans and D.…

Are humans causing global warming? For the past fifty years these questions are being asked more and more by scientists who believe that the Earth’s climate is getting steadily warmer at a frightening rate. Earth 's ever-changing climate has seized the attention of scientists whom would have world accept that without a great change to human behavior, the world will end up destroyed. However, scientists are using unreliable information from unreliable sources, as well as scientists do not have…

in the general atmosphere of the Earth. A few people understand that a significantly risky warming is occurring in the general worldwide atmosphere, an issue that is alluded to as global warming or climate change. With regards to saving…