Friday, January 4, 2013

Global Warming hype, or is it man made fact?




Is Global warming just hype or is it a man made byproduct of our daily lives. I think that humans are at fault for the rise of global warming. Our ridiculous amount of power that we go through including oil, coal, and natural gas, produces so many pollutants that it is causing a rise in global temperature. The effects of global warming are obvious and staring us in the face. Every winter we seem to have either no snow or barely any. There used to be massive snowstorms or at least more then a few a winter. The past couple of winters have only had a small amount of snow and the snow has come too early or not at all. The recent decline in snow and increase in temperature are obvious signs of these changes rapidly taking affect. I believe that all of the pollutants that we are pumping into the air are definitely having a physical effect. Several cities have pollution so bad that the air is filled with thick smog. A fog made thick because of smoke in the air. These are directly linked with pollutants like coal or gas burning. This process is happening on a much grander scale, the earth’s atmosphere is filling with these gasses and making a barrier for sunlight. The suns rays are bouncing off of the thick atmosphere. The sunrays that do make it through are often trapped because of the barrier, in turn this heats up the Earth. 

1 comment:

  1. I agree that global warming is caused by us. Well written James!

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