Global Warming

Global warming is causing warmer average temperatures to lead to hotter days and more

frequent and longer heat waves. These changes will lead to an increase in heat related deaths in

the United States reaching as much as thousands to tens of thousands of additional deaths each

year by the end of the century during summer months. These deaths will not be offset by the

smaller reduction in cold related deaths projected in the winter months. However, adaptive

responses, such as wider use of air conditioning, are expected to reduce the projected increases in

death from extreme heat.

Exposure to extreme heat can lead to heat stroke and dehydration, as well as cardiovascular,

respiratory, and cerebrovascular disease. Excessive heat is more likely to affect populations in

northern latitudes where people are less prepared to cope with excessive temperatures. Certain

types of people are highly affected by the change such as outdoor workers, student athletes, and

homeless people tend to be more exposed to extreme heat because they spend more time

outdoors. Low income homes and older adults may lack access to air conditioning which also

increases exposure to extreme heat.

Additionally, young children, pregnant women, older adults, and people with certain medical

conditions are less able to regulate their body temperature and can therefore be more vulnerable

to extreme heat. Urban areas are typically warmer than their rural surroundings. Large

metropolitan areas such as St. Louis, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Cincinnati have seen notable

increases in death rates during heat waves. Climate change is projected to increase the

vulnerability of urban populations to heat-related health impacts in the future. Heat waves are
also often accompanied by periods of stagnant air, leading to increases in air pollution and

associated health effects.

Global warming is melting the polar ice caps. One reason how global warming is a bad thing for

the planet is because the planets temperatures are rising. The rising temperatures are melting the

polar and arctic ice sheets and caps. Its changing the rhythm of climate that all living things

come to rely upon to live and thrive with in their everyday lives. global warming is the reason for

climate change and when it changes it affects the inhabitants of the planet, not just people

animals too. climate change deniers have argued that there has been a slowdown in rising global

temperatures but several recent studies has disproved this claim.

My second reason to why the ice caps melting is rising temperatures of the oceans of earth. As

the climate continues to change and harms the earth, oceans have responded slower than surface

environments to global warming, but scientific research is finding out that marine ecosystems

can be more sensitive to even the most simple temperature change in the climate. When the

water of oceans heats up, it expands. The most recent consequence of higher sea temperatures is

a constant rise in sea levels. Sea levels rise cause a over flood of coastal habitats for humans as

well for plants and animals. Shoreline erosion and more powerful storm rise that can devastate

low lying areas

Another cause for the polar and arctic ice caps to melt is Glaciers are melting and sea levels are

rising. The melted ice is making the sea levels rising. Large ice formations, like glaciers and

polar ice caps usually melt each summer. But in the winter it snows primarily from evaporated
seawater are generally the reason to balance out the melting. Recently high temperatures caused

by global warming have led to high average summer melting.

This imbalance results in a significant gain in the ratio of runoff to ocean evaporation causing the

sea levels to rise. Scientists say that Antarctica's ice may melt faster than previously thought as a

result of new discovered lakes and streams the ice shelves. The melted ice from the Arctic and

polar sheets , form water that creates lakes and streams that get into the cracks of the ice sheets

and the heated ice water melts the ice sheets causing the sea levels to rise.

My second resource that supports my claim that global warming is happening is the greenhouse

effect. The greenhouse effect is the trapping of the sun's warmth in a planets lower atmosphere

due to the greater transparency of the atmosphere to visible radiation from the sun than to

infrared radiation from the planets surface. Most climate scientists agree the main cause of global

warming is the human expansion of the greenhouse effect. Which results when the atmosphere

traps heat radiating from the earth towards space.

Certain gases in the atmosphere block heat gases from escaping. Gases that remain permanently

in the atmosphere and do not respond physically or chemically to changes in temperature are

described as forcing climate change. Gases such as water vapor which respond physically or

chemically to changes in temperature are seen feedbacks from the greenhouse gases being put in

the atmosphere.

Most of the past centuries warming was caused by releasing heat trapping gases as we power and

function throughout our everyday lives. As we live our lives everyday we’re damaging our

atmosphere which makes a major changes to the planet earth and is environments and animals.
The heat trapping nature of carbon dioxide was mainly demonstrated in the mid 19th century

during wars that was taking place in the western hemisphere such as Abolition and the American

Civil War and Latin American independence. Most of the gases that were put in the atmosphere

were released during the 19 century and carried on into the next centuries and will continue so

that the human race will be able to support themselves

Which is causing the global climate change. The earth's global temperatures are changing

rapidly. its causing a set of changes in the planets climate or long term patterns that varies from

place to place. Global warming is causing different weather patterns throughout the planet. On

earth human activities are changing the natural greenhouse. Over the last century the burning of

fossil fuels like oil and coal has increased the atmospheric carbon dioxide.

Earth's global climate has been changing throughout the planets history. The earth's global

climate has been changing in history but the arrival of global warming has made the changes

increase and have a major increase in heat trapping gases. In the last 650,000 earth years there

have been seven cycles of glacier advance and retreat, with the abrupt end of the last ice age

about 7,000 earth years ago.

Marking the beginning of the modern climate era and of human civilization. Most of these

climate changes are attributed to very small variations in the earth's orbit that change the amount

of solar energy our planet receives. The planet's average surface temperature has risen by about 2

degrees since the 19th century.

Over the past 50 years the average global temperature has increased at the fastest rate in recorded

earth history. The past 50 years of earth history the planets global climate temperatures have

been the highest ever in history.

The Greenhouse gases produced by human activities are causing the planets temperature to rise

at an enormous rate. Rising global temperatures are heating the earth's surface. Scientists say

unless we curb global warming emissions the average united states temperatures will increase by

10 degrees over the earth's next century. If there isn't a change in how we try to reduce global

warming numbers the united states temperatures will rise by 10 degrees or probably even more

by the next century.

The energy that our planet receives from the sun in the form of radiation that heats the surface of

the earth. As the earth spins everyday, the new heat that is transferred from the sun swirls with

the earth as it spins on its axis picking up moisture over oceans, lakes, and other bodies of water.

The heat is swirling around the world and as it spins it doesn't leave.
In conclusion to my article that's proving that global warming is a real thing and that is

happening today in our everyday lives if there isn't a change; we could lose the very planet that

we live on and call home in the next million years.