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The greenhouse effect is a natural process that makes the earth’s atmosphere traps the suns heat inside the earth. When the sun’s rays come into the earth, they try to escape but the atmosphere keeps them in, and that is what warms the earth and keeps it warm at night. It is important to have the greenhouse effect because without it, harmful rays would be let into the earth and hurt us. Also, it would not trap the heat, so when the sun goes down, all the heat from the day would escape and we would freeze.
 * Transforming Global Warming **



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GLOBAL WARMING: THE BIG PICTURE
Global warming is the rising of temperature on earth. It is caused because of fossil fuels, which cause greenhouse gasses to increase, and make the earth warmer. It is concerning because it can effect climate patterns. It can also cause places on the coast to flood because of glaciers melting. The greenhouse gases that cause global warmnig are methane and carbon dioxide.




 * GLOBAL WARMING: CONTRIBUTING FACTORS **


 * Burning coal and petroleum products contributes to global warming because it makes carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and ozone, which trap heat into the earth, causing global warming.
 * Deforestation causes global warming because trees take carbon dioxide, so without them, there is more carbon dioxide in the hair which is a greenhouse gas.
 * Animal waste causes global warming because the animal waste has methane in it, which is a greenhouse gas.
 * Increasing in cattle production is bad because it causes deforestation, methane, and the use of fossil fuels, which all cause global warming.
 * Pollution also causes global warming because the pollution makes greenhouse gasses, which go into the atmosphere and trap in heat.
 * Factories cause global warming because they produce gas which go into the atmosphere and trap in heat.





GLOBAL WARMING: LOCAL EFFECTS **


 * Because of global warming, there is flooding in the eastern US. The flooding effects sewage treatment plants and is causing it to pollute the water, spreading disease everywhere.
 * Global warming is causing New York to flood more because of the rise in sea level.
 * Causing spring to come earlier because the snow melts away two or three weeks earlier now.
 * The burning of fossil fuels, coal-burning power plants, factories and automobiles has caused acid rain because they all pollute the air.
 * Butterflies, foxes, and some plants have moved more north to be in cooler places.
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 * If Boston was covered in water because of global warming, it would be harmful to people living there because they would have to more away and that would make other places crowded too.




 * WHAT YOUR AUDIENCE CAN DO DIFFERENTLY: One specific area of focus **

Cars are a huge factor to global warming. Cars burn fossil fuels and they go into the earth’s atmosphere, causing global warming. There are many things you can go to prevent this from happening. Sometimes, how much fossil fuel emissions go into the atmosphere depends on what kind of car you have. Before you buy a car, you can check to see how healthy it is for the environment. By speeding, accelerating really fast, or braking really fast, you can waste a lot of gas. You should try to prevent doing those three things because it will send fewer emissions into the atmosphere. Along with helping the environment, it will also save you 33 percent of your car mileage. You should also try not to have very heavy objects in your car if they are not necessary. Every 100 extra pounds in your car lowers your miles per gallon by 2 percent. Depending on how much money you spend on parking and how far you drive, you can save anywhere between $923 and $2948. This will help reduce greenhosue gases becasue every time you walk or ride a bike instead of driving, you will save a ton of carbon dioxide from going into the earth's atmosphere. Also, if you carbool, that reduces it in half because it is one less car driving and creating carbon dioxide.

Also, a great way to reduce fossil fuel emissions in the earth’s atmosphere is to not use your car at all. Whenever you have the chance, you should try to find other ways besides driving your car to get around. One way you can do that is by using public transportation. Also, you should carpool. Along with helping the environment, carpooling is very helpful to you too. By carpooling, you can ride in the carpool lanes on the highway, which always have less traffic, so you can get to where you need to go much faster. You can also save a lot of money on things like, parking, gasoline, wear/tear, and more. Walking or biking to wherever you need to go is also a great way to save money and the earth. You can get a great exercise by walking or riding your bike, and you don’t have to wait in traffic.




 * SUMMARY OF YOUR RESEARCH **

To sum everything up, global warming is the rising temperature on earth. Global warming is happening because of the greenhouse gasses in the earth’s atmosphere that are trapping the sun’s heat inside the earth. The more greenhouse gasses, the more heat the atmosphere traps. Since things like burning fossil fuels, pollution, animal waste and factories are causing more greenhouse gasses, we are experiencing global warming. A good way to stop global warming is to decrease the amount of greenhouse gasses we make. Driving your car less is a great way to stop global warming because a car burns fossil fuels, and that creates greenhouse gasses.

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