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All about the Greenhouse Effect! The greenhouse effect is the rise in temperature of the earth. Basically, gases trap heat into our atmosphere, which makes our planet heat up. The greenhouse effect contains some natural gases called, (CO2) Carbon Dioxide, Methane, Nitrous Oxide (N2O), and other fluorinated gases. Without these gases, the earth would be 60°F cooler than it is. So, pretty much, without the greenhouse effect, we would seize to exist. As you can see, the greenhouse effect is crucial, but extremely portentous if the gases increase. So you’re thinking, "so what, this won’t happen in my lifetime." You’re wrong, gases are slowly but surely increasing throughout the atmosphere, and if nothing changes, the earth will turn into a hot potato. ** So, what is Global Warming? **

** Although the greenhouse effect has a positive effect on the earth, it is extremely dangerous now because the gases are increasing. When the gases increase **** (Water Vapor, Carbon Dioxide, Methane, Nitrous oxide, ozone **** he earth’s atmosphere is augmenting, and takes in more heat from the sun. This causes the earth to heat up, which then causes glaciers to melt. This is not good because if the glaciers melt, massive floods will occur. ** **So, what do we do to contribute to Global Warming?**


 * There are many contributing factors that lead to the world getting warmer. Some contributing factors are agriculture, industries, and fossil fuels. Fossil fuels (80% of global warming comes from fossil fuels) are the leading factors that cause global warming to become a dangerous topic. Believe it or not, every time we use a car, or heat our homes with oil, Carbon Dioxide is given off. This is not good. When Carbon Dioxide is given off, more heat is trapped in the atmosphere, and less of it is escaping back into space. Another leading factor in the cause of global warming is Methane given from cows. A weird and disgusting fact, believe it or not, whenever cows burp or fart, it produces methane, which will contribute to the other natural methane from the atmosphere. When methane increases, it causes the world to get warmer. Methane is the second biggest cause of global warming. As you can see, global warming is increasing slowly, and it is extremely crucial to find ideas to stop this danger. **

Global warming is causing prices to rise for vegetables, weather to change, and floods to occur throughout the whole world. In some time, seasons will change due to global warming. The summer would be extremely hot (it’s hot enough as it is), and the winter would soon become rainy. When this happens you will soon notice a rise in vegetable and fruit prices. A reason for the prices to rise is because the summer would be extremely hot, causing droughts to occur, and this will destroy the plants. The winter will soon become the old summer, and it would become into a harvesting season. Another thing that will happen is the hotness will increase, causing the polar ice caps to melt. When the ice melts, areas near the shore will begin to flood, causing more and more people to spread out. This will cause over-populated regions, and more and more homeless people.
 * Has Global Warming done anything to the world yet? **

Throughout the years of learning in our schools, I learned a lot about how we use their heat, how we use their buses. I really look forward to having a cleaner school, with better transportation. There really isn’t much I can do, but all together, we can make a difference. Whenever we go on fieldtrips, or get dropped off to school, we use buses/cars. Whenever we use those buses/cars, Carbon Dioxide is given off. One thing that we can do to make a difference is donate money to our school system to buy more efficient buses. Such as this-(show picture of hybrid bus). Doing this, we use less gas, which will give off less Carbon Dioxide into the atmosphere. One thing I do know that we approved on is making our lights more efficient. Our lights are fluorescent lights, which use less energy. By having fluorescent lights, we save about $30 every light bulb we use. We save $30 because every time a regular light bulb runs out, the fluorescent light bulb is still alive and running. When the ordinary light bulb runs out, you have to go out and use your car (leading cause of global warming) go and buy a new light bulb, and waste even more money/energy. Another thing pur schools did is influence kids (us) to walk to school everyday. This would be a huge change throughout our town, and it will reduce global warming. In matter of fact, it would save about one gallon of gas each time you drive to school which includes 2,421 grams of CO2. You may be thinking, so what, it’s just a small town, in a small state, in a big country. Think different! If our schools were able to do all of these things, other towns could start doing it too. Then slowly and slowly, each state will be doing it, then each country and then slowly it will decrease global warming. **What am I trying to get at?** To sum all this up, the greenhouse gases are increasing, causing global warming. Basically, what I’m trying to prove is that if we do not stop contributing gases throughout our atmosphere, things could get real ugly. One thing that we do know that will happen is the sea level rising. When global warming gets worse, more and more ice will melt, increasing the sea level. We can change this, but we have to act quickly. People do not realize about how much they are affecting the world and the future generations. I think we should change the way we travel, and the way we use electricity. By doing these small things, things would change immensely, and we would no longer worry about global warming. 
 * Hybrid cars and more efficient transportation in our town **

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