Global Warming; Cause And Effect

Global Warming

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to go a whole winter without even seeing snow? Well the way the atmosphere is heating up today you just might experience this kind of event in the future I chose to do my cause and effect paper on global warming because I believe it has a major impact on humans, not only today, but especially in the future. In this paper I am going to explain the causes and the effects of global warming and how it will impact our lives in the long run.

Greenhouse gases are gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and ozone, and play an important roll in the earth's atmosphere. Without them it would really be cold, but that does not seem to be the problem in today's life. Over the past sixty years, the world's ozone layer has built up tremendously because of trapped gases being. Because of this build up it does not allow the gases to leave the atmosphere, which is a bad thing for the atmosphere. For example, greenhouse gases are like riding down the road with the windows up and the sun shining through the car windows. The windows allow the light and heat in, but there is no where for it to go after it enters. This causes the inside of the vehicle to heat up. This is basically what is happening to our atmosphere. Our atmosphere is heating up like global warming, which is exactly like the heat being trapped inside of the car. The major effect of global warming is that it is heating up the entire world. Which is not exactly a good thing. Because when the atmosphere heats up so does the Antarctic Ocean. In fact, over half of it is made up of ice burgs and ice. When they heat up, they melt, which causes mass amounts of flooding, yet another effect of global warming and greenhouse gases.

Another leading cause of global warming is us, humans. As years go by, more and more land is being cleared off, which is most commonly known as deforestation (Wikipedia). People are cutting down trees, and then grading the land and getting rid of all the plants that help consume the harmful gases throughout the atmosphere. The plants not only absorb gases ones throughout the atmosphere, but the ones created by humans too, such as fossil fuels. Fossil fuels are the gases released when making plastics and when producing other types of fuels such as gasoline, kerosene, and diesel. When these gases are released they clog up the atmosphere, which means other types of gases can not escape. This is also another leading factor of the world heating up and also leads to be a cause of the major flooding, all of which is an effect of global warming.

The second most leading cause of global warming is aerosols. "Aerosols are air born solid particles or liquid droplets" usually found in hair spray cans or other types of continuous spray cans (Wikipedia). In these types of hair sprays there are fossil fuels combusted to help release the sprays needed. These aerosols are not only in spray cans but also volcanoes. In lava, that explodes out of volcanoes, sulfur is released. The sulfur then rises to the atmosphere, which destroys it