GLOBAL WARMING

WHAT IS GLOBAL WARMING?

Global warming is the long-term warming of the planet’s overall
temperature. Though this warming trend has been going on for a
long time, its pace has significantly increased in the last hundred
years due to the burning of fossil fuels. As the human population
has increased, so has the volume of fossil fuels burned. Fossil fuels
include coal, oil, and natural gas, and burning them causes what is
known as the “greenhouse effect” in Earth’s atmosphere. The
greenhouse effect is when the sun’s rays penetrate the
atmosphere, but when that heat is reflected off the surface cannot
escape back into space. Gases produced by the burning of fossil
fuels prevent the heat from leaving the atmosphere.
 CAUSES OF GLOBAL WARMING
Global warming occurs when carbon dioxide (CO2) and other air
pollutants collect in the atmosphere and absorb sunlight and solar
radiation that have bounced off the earth’s surface. Normally this
radiation would escape into space, but these pollutants, which can last
for years to centuries in the atmosphere, trap the heat and cause the
planet to get hotter. These heat-trapping pollutants—specifically
carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, water vapor, and synthetic
fluorinated gases—are known as greenhouse gases, and their impact is
called the greenhouse effect.
 EFFECTS OF GLOBAL WARMING?
Each year scientists learn more about the consequences of global
warming, and each year we also gain new evidence of its
devastating impact on people and the planet. As the heat waves,
droughts, and floods associated with climate change become
more frequent and more intense, communities suffer and death
tolls rise. If we’re unable to reduce our emissions, scientists
believe that climate change could lead to the deaths of more than
250,000 people around the globe every year and force 100 million
people into poverty by 2030.
 LINKED TO EXTREME WEATHER
Scientists agree that the earth’s rising temperatures are fueling longer and
hotter heat waves, more frequent droughts, heavier rainfall, and more
powerful hurricanes. In 2015, for example, scientists concluded that a
lengthy drought in California—the state’s worst water shortage in 1,200
years—had been intensified by 15 to 20 percent by global warming. They
also said the odds of similar droughts happening in the future had roughly
doubled over the past century. And in 2016, the National Academies of
Science, Engineering, and Medicine announced that we can now
confidently attribute some extreme weather events, like heat waves,
droughts, and heavy precipitation, directly to climate change.
 brief history
1938 1939
1896
An engineer named Stewart A war breaks out and ended
Svante Arrhenius, a in 1945. As the global
Callendar decides to
Swedish Chemist, discour economy improve recovers,
examine global
that adding carbon dioxide industrial production qoes
temperatures recorded over
(C02) to the atmosphere into overdrive. Burning of
the previous 50 years and
could make the earth coal and oil puts se much
discovers that the earth is
warmer. sulfur pollution into the
getting warmer
atmosphere that partially
blocks the sums ray and the
world actually gets slightly
cooler over the next three
decades.
 BRIEF HISTORY
1950's
1950's
1960's
Scientists are looking more closely at Cooling has continued and has
the possible effects of 202 emmisions led to some, speculative claims
on global temperatures. The first time that we could be heading for a
we start to redize that we could have a
new lce age
major problem on our hands. Spring

1970's 1995
An international group of scientists
Temperatures start going up again
issues the first public statement that
and keep rising throughout the 80s.
that there is discernible human
1988 is the hottest year ever recorded
influence on global dimate.
to that paint. 1995
 Over the next decade some of the anticipated effects of
global warming start happening things like rising
oceans, intense droughts, heat waves, and powerful
storms 15 hottest ears in history have all occured since
1996 and 2015 is on track to be the hottest year ever
recorded.15 hottest ears in history have all occured since
1996 and 2015 is on track to be the hottest year ever
recorded.
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