GLOBAL WARMING

Global Warming

Global Warming

Thesis Statement

Global warming will eventually lead to more precipitation, which enables infectious diseases to be more easily contracted and spread.

Introduction

It has been a controversial issue for so long and no one has given this much attention to it until now. It has caused an observed increase in the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere and oceans over the last 50 years; it has been attributed to the disastrous things humans have done to the earth atmosphere, plants and animals. The major cause of this horrifying issue is the increase in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases like anthropogenic aerosols (fossils fuel and burning of biological materials used as fuel for industrial production) in the atmosphere (Maslin, 2002).

Analysis

It is the increase in green house gases and carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere; it is the disastrous effect it has had on the earth's atmosphere and all living things. This horrifying issue is Global Warming. Global Warming makes the worlds temperatures increase, makes sea levels rise, this rise in sea levels distorts rainfall patterns causing floods or droughts, heat waves, hurricanes, tornado's and many other disastrous weather conditions. It has led to glacial melting causing rivers to overflow their banks; this overflowing of river banks was the major cause of the recent well known disasters hurricanes KATHRINA, WILMA and RITA. Other consequences include higher or lower agricultural yields, glacial retreat, reduced summer stream flows, species extinctions and increase in the ranges of disease vectors (Mary E. Wiliams, Bonnie Szumski, and Helen Cothran, 2006).

Global Warming is expected to affect the number and magnitude of these events. The United Nations Environmental Program recently announced that severe weather conditions around the world have made 2005 the most costly year on record. Although there is no way to prove that a given hurricane was ,or was not affected by Global Warming, Global Warming is thought to increase the probability of hurricanes emerging preliminary estimates presented by the German insurance foundation Munich Re put the economic losses at more than $200billion, with insured looses running at more than $70billion (Houghton, John T. 1997).

The United States has proven to be the most educated nation concerning Global Warming and still pollution by this same country is on the increase. Each American gives three times greener house gases than any other country. Most countries if not all look to America in hopes of limiting or providing the answer to Global Warming, sadly emissions are on the increase. Although the United States is the biggest polluter , according to the electricity forum “China is destined to become the worlds biggest polluter within 15 years”, still many out there do not believe in pollution as being the cause of Global Warming , some do not even believe in Global Warming at all (Bailey, Ronald 2002).

People who oppose the reality of Global Warming believe that science hasn't reached the stage where they are able to provide people with solid answers to all the major questions about the global ...