Is Global Warming Real?

Is Global Warming Real?

Global warming is the term used to describe the facts about the Earth heating up. Global warming is the way scientists report ‘The Greenhouse Effect’. This is where the sun heats the atmosphere surrounding the Earth, which then reflexes back into the universe. There is no general description because most people understand the terms surrounding Global warming.

The sudden melting of the sea ice in the Antarctic regions, intense wildfires, and increased intensities of the tropical storms happening because of global warming. Many scientists believe that global warming, may be mainly caused by human inducing activities, but some scientists are saying that they believe that global warming is down to temperature fluctuations (IPCC. 2009).

Many scientists believe that as greenhouse gases, is produced they make the thermal blanket thicker and then too much heat becomes trapped in the Earth atmosphere. (Lichter R, 2009). Some of these gases believed to make up the greenhouse gases. Which refers to the terms used to talk about carbon dioxide (CO2), Methane (CH4), Nitrous Oxide (N2O, CFC, HFC3, PFC3 and sulphur hexafluoride (2) (Hoosier Environmental Council.2007).

Some of these predicted results of global warming are; Sea ice predicted to melt quicker in Artic and Atlantic regions than first thought (see appendix A). Tropical cyclones, typhoons, and hurricanes will become more powerful and frequent. Hot extremes, heat waves, heavy precipitations events, will continue to become more frequent. In addition, increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations will lead to increasing acidulation of the ocean.

Scientists are believers that, global warming is the increased amount of Carbon Dioxide and other greenhouse gases, preventing the free flow of radiant heat back to space. Scientists have spent many years’ even decades, trying to figure out what it is that is possibly causing global warming’. They have used many ways to try to determine the amount of the effect it has on the world, but nobody can explain the one single factor. There is the belief that it is a combination of gases omitted by humans, fossil fuels in cars, factories, and electricity production. These gases can also be blamed on deforestation, because by cutting down trees in the numbers that get cut down, it will cut down the number of C02 that get stored in the trees, instead of getting released in to the atmosphere. (See appendix B). CO2 is a heat trapping gas, which is not one of the most powerful of the gases, because Nitrous Oxide is 300 more times powerful than C02 at trapping heat.

We can help in many ways to future lower the emissions that some scientists would have us believe are causing Global Warming. Some of these ways to reduce the effects of global Warming’ on the world today are car sharing, solar heating in homes, using energy efficient light bulbs to cut down on energy