Global Warming or Solar Global Warming Charles Johnson English Comp 101 Professor Kim Hunt

Scientists have concluded that human activities are contributing to global warming by

adding large amounts of heat-trapping gases to the atmosphere. An unprecedented consensus among hundreds of the world's leading climate change scientists agree that the Earth's temperature is rising and that its climate has drastically increased over the last century. Solar Global Warming Solar Global Warming is a naturally occurring process that maintains a habitable climate on Earth. In the described picture above, harmful UV Rays and excess Solar Radiation are reflected and filtered through the Ozone Layer and the Earths atmosphere. The filtered radiation is then mostly absorbed by the Earth, which maintains the cores temperature, and then is reflected into the atmosphere. In the atmosphere the natural greenhouse gasses absorb and reflect the radiation maintaining the global climate. Global Warming Global warming is caused by emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases that are emitted primarily by the burning of fossil fuels and the clearing of forests. What has been overlooked is the effect the Ozone Hole has on natural Solar Global Warming. Global warming is not a naturally occurring process. Through human activity, harmful gasses increase greenhouse and deplete Ozone molecules in the stratosphere where the Earths protective Ozone Layer was naturally formed over millions of years. The effect of Ozone depletion in the stratosphere decreases the defenses that the Ozone Layer provides. As more Solar Radiation and harmful UV rays increase, the effect of Global Warming increases. Solar Global Warming has been an ongoing occurrence ever since. In contrast to Solar Global Warming, Global Warming from the emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat trapping gases from the burning of fossil fuels, is a new occurrence and contingency to be dealt with. Effecting both Solar Global Warming and Global Warming, ozone (O 3 : 3 oxygen atoms) occurs naturally in the atmosphere. Ozone is formed throughout the atmosphere in a multi-step chemical processes that requires sunlight. Ultraviolet Rays (UV Rays) and Solar Radiation are the catalyst for the photo-disassociation (or "splitting") of oxygen molecules. Once this catalyst occurs, O 2 splits to become 2 individual oxygen atoms. This atomic oxygen quickly combines with other oxygen molecules to form ozone. Since the 1920's, ground-based instruments have measured ozone, carbon dioxide as well as other atmospheric gases. Scientists place instruments at locations around the globe to measure the amount of ultraviolet radiation getting through the atmosphere at each site and. From these measurements, they calculate the concentration of ozone in the atmosphere above that location. Scientist also take core samples of glacier ice to study

atmospheric gasses through out history. The amount of ozone in the atmosphere is measured by instruments on the ground and carried aloft in balloons, aircraft, and satellites. Some measurements involve drawing air into an instrument that contains a system for detecting ozone. Other measurements are based on ozone's unique absorption of light in the atmosphere. In that case, sunlight or laser light is carefully measured after passing through a portion of the atmosphere containing ozone.
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