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The Consequences of Global Warming

What is Global Warming? How does it affect the Earth and its inhabitants? Global Warming is referred to as the greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect is the absorption of energy radiated from the Earth's surface by carbon dioxide and other gases from both vehicles and industries. "What all greenhouse gasses have in common is that they allow light from the sun into the atmosphere, but trap a portion of the outward-bound infrared radiation and warm up the air." (Gore 28) Through his statements, Al Gore claims that the greenhouse effect causes the temperature on the Earth to rise, and creating many problems that will begin to occur in the coming decades.

In both the movie and the book titled An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore tries to express his concern about Global Warming, and how it has become a crucial problem for over a century in the entire world. The main problem caused by Global Warming is the increase of Earth's temperature. If the temperature continues to rise so rapidly, it will affect the entire ecosystem of Earth. Firstly, Global Warming will increase the overall heat of the ocean. This heat will cause the ocean to get warmer. Next to appear is the large-scale bleaching of corals and the death of most coral reefs. Many fishes are going to lose their homes and the beauty of the seabed will disappears. Secondly, this Global Warming will speed up the melting of ice in the South Pole and the North Pole. If the heat continues to increase, the ice will continue to melt. In the end, there might be no ice left at the South Pole. The polar bears in the Arctic and the penguins at the South Pole will have no habitat and die. They will become extinct from this world. Thirdly, the melting-ice will definitely increase the sea level and finally create more destructive disasters such as floods. However, instead of only creating floods, paradoxically, global warming also increases the percentage of drought in other places. "The Global Warming not only increases precipitation world-wide but at the same time causes some of it to relocates." (Gore 112) Fourth, Global Warming will create higher potential for stronger hurricane. "As water temperatures go up, wind velocity goes up, and so does storm moisture condensation." (Gore 89) Fifth, rising temperatures will cause not only the evaporation of water, but also produce evaporation of soil. This evaporation of soil is going to decrease soil moisture. It will increase the risks fire because of the growing enormous amount of dry plant and diminish agriculture, creating fewer vegetables, wheat, and corns. Sixth, Global Warming promotes more unfamiliar diseases and viruses. This increase in warmth causes many vectors such as algae, mosquitoes, tsetse flies, lice, rodents, ticks, bats, fleas, and snails, to expand and