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Is the World Getting Hotter?

Global Warming. The topic of global warming has been up in the air for decades and is still extremely controversial. For years, scientists across the globe have been composing research on global warming and they have discovered that the world could be in great danger if people do not aggressively curb the climate change right now.

Global warming is “a gradual increase in the overall temperature of the earth’s atmosphere generally attributed to the greenhouse effect caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide, chlorofluorocarbons, and other pollutants.” In other words, the world is getting hot, Fast. If the people of the world do not do anything about this economic issue, the world could eventually become non-existent.

WE, the people, ARE THE CAUSE of global warming. This issue arose based solely on the fact that humans polluted our beautiful earth. Everyday humans are polluting our home and overloading our atmosphere with carbon dioxide, which traps heat and slowly increases the Earth’s temperature. Doing things such as burning fossil fuels for energy (coal, natural gas, and oil) or deforestation causes the ‘greenhouse gases’ to get released into the worlds atmosphere. Factories always release these gases in the air when manufacturing their goods. So the huge cloud of smoke coming out of the tops of the factories are not cool looking clouds, they are greenhouse gases which are slowly destroying your world. Even you release these ‘greenhouse gases’ every single time you drive a car. Since cars release these polluting gases, that means that every time you drive, you contribute to the increase building of global warming.

Take a look at the chart below. This chart shows the percentage of heat-trapping global warming emissions by economic sector. As you can see, energy supply gets trapped the most and is over a quarter of the amount of heat that gets trapped. So, you make the most impact.

Scientists predict that global warming would fully come into effect long after we are gone, so why should we care? Besides the fact that it is morally wrong to not care about the future, it affects our lives even today. It affects our economy in many ways such as: the increasing rise in sea level, the increase in wildfires, the increase of dangerous heat waves, the increase of extreme storm events, and the increase in severe droughts. Besides the economy, it can directly affect a human’s health because global warming increases the risk of illness and death related to extreme heat. Also, global warming increases diseases transmitted by food, water, and insects.

So this is our time to fix this global issue. You can help out just by doing the simplest things such as recycling, using less air conditioning/heat, driving less, using less hot water, planting a tree, turning off the lights when you go out, and many more. It is simple actions like that which can make the biggest difference.

 

This is our time.

 

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