Global Warming Cause And Effect
Imagine a barren world where the Earth has become over flooded, the skies are dark and cloudy, and no human life has lived in a thousand years. The human population has used up the Earth’s resources resulting in this infertile land. The cause of this catastrophe is global warming. Global warming is a significant ecological issue and has many negative effects upon our environment. Global Warming, or the Greenhouse effect, is the result of a simple four point ecological process. First, the sunlight from the sun radiates, through space, to Earth’s atmosphere. Second, the sunlight enters the atmosphere and hits Earth. Some of the sunlight turns into heat energy in the form of infrared light. The heat gets absorbed by surrounding air and land, which in turn warms it. Third, the infrared rays, which are sent into the atmosphere, are trapped by greenhouse gases. Some examples of greenhouse gases are carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. Lastly, those gases then absorb the light and are remitted back to the Earth’s surface thus warming it even more. Left on its own this natural process keeps our planet warm enough for habitation, but with the increases in temperature, caused by modern industry, our current way of life could become threatened. The effects of global warming on the planet are rising sea levels, creation of natural disasters such as tsunamis and hurricanes, and glacier retreat due to the melting of the polar ice caps.
The ocean’s sea level has been rising at a steady rate of 1.88 mm per year in the past 10 years due to the melting of the polar ice caps. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, usually called the EPA, the sea level has elevated 6 to 8 inches in the previous 100 years. The polar ice caps, usually, serve as a reflector to the sun’s rays so the Earth doesn’t get too warm because the snow and ice in the polar ice caps form a defensive, cooling layer over the Arctic. When the covering melts, rays from the sun are more...
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