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There are many possible contributing factors to global warming.

Cause #1: Variations in the Sun's Intensity

The Earth receives its warmth from the sun, so it's reasonable to suspect that our home star may be
one of the reasons for global warming. Although the amount of energy coming from the sun does
vary and may have been responsible for warming in the past, however, NASA and the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have ruled this out as a cause of the current
warming trend. The average energy coming from the sun generally has remained constant since
1750, and the warming does not occur uniformly throughout the atmosphere. The upper layer is
actually cooling as the bottom layer becomes warmer.

Cause #2: Industrial Activity

Since the Industrial Revolution, humans have been burning fossil fuels such as coal and petroleum
for energy, which releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. A quarter of this is for heat and
electricity, while another quarter is for other industrial processes and transportation, which includes
gasoline- or diesel-powered cars, trucks, trains and airplanes. The other half of the energy is used
for various other purposes, including agriculture, cement production and oil and gas production.
These processes also release other greenhouse gases, such as methane and CFCs, although the
concentration of CFCs has declined since their use was banned in 1988.

Cause #3: Agricultural Activity

The agricultural practices that produce food for the people on earth is another of the human causes
of climate change. The use of both commercial and organic fertilizers releases nitrous oxide, a
powerful greenhouse gas. Methane, another important greenhouse gas, comes from many natural
sources, but also from the digestive systems of livestock raised for meat production as well as the
decomposition of waste in landfills and the burning of biomass.

Cause #4: Deforestation

The increased demand for meat and dairy cattle has lead to the creation of feed lots in otherwise
forested areas. Logging for wood and paper and clearing for crop production also requires trees to
be cut, sometimes illegally. One mature tree absorbs as much as 48 pounds of carbon dioxide each
year, and by one estimate, 3.5 to 7 billion are cut every year. According to Scientific American,
deforestation is responsible for 15 percent of the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
Cause #5: Earth's Own Feedback Loop
As the atmosphere warms, it is able to hold more water, which is already the most abundant
greenhouse gas. This creates a feedback loop that accelerates global warming. It also creates more
clouds, rainstorms and other symptoms of climate change. At the poles, the warming of the
atmosphere melts the ice cover, exposing water, which is less reflective than ice. The water absorbs
the sun's heat, and the oceans also become warmer as a result.

There are many possible contributing factors to global

warming. Firstly, man’s industrial activity is the most responsible
for global warming : since The Industrial Revolution, man uses
fossil fuels excessively, which releases very high amounts of
carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. This leads to pollution and then
to global warming. Secondly, deforestation is one of the reasons for
global warming ; man is constantly in need for wood to produce
food, paper and many other stuffs, as result, billions of trees are cut
every year knowing that one mature tree absorbs around 48 pounds
of carbon dioxide . Finally, there are variation in the sun’s intesity
playing a role in global warming. NASA has confirmed that this
variation has caused the upper layer of the atmosphere to cool and
the bottom one to turn warmer. To conclude, humans have to pay
more attention to consumption in order to reduce carbon dioxide
releases. Additionally mother nature is needing more and more
trees to be planted to absorb the gases.

There are many possible contributing factors to global warming.

First of all, there are variations in the sun intensity ; NASA is one of the
institutions that confirm the fact that the upper layer of the atmosphere is
cooling while the bottom layer is warming. Secondly the industrial activity
has increased since the Industrial Revolution , resulting in the burning of
fossil fuel releasing lots of carbon dioxide in the air. Thirdly deforestation is
one major reason for global warming : more and more trees are cut for
man’s needs for wood, paper, food and space, knowing that 48 pounds of
carbon dioxide can absorbed by a mature tree yearly and this estimates the
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