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=//__ What is global warming, and how can we __////__ stop it __////__ ? __//= = THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT = The Green House effect is what keeps us alive. When people talk about Global warming, the green house effect usually comes up; therefore, most people think that it is bad. During the greenhouse effect, the suns rays penetrate the earth’s atmosphere. They are absorbed in the earth, heating it up. The energy is then released back into the atmosphere, but some of it doesn’t make it back through, and goes back into the earth. The rays that reflect back are what make us not freeze to death during the night when the sun goes down. This is what keeps us alive.

GLOBAL WARMING: THE BIG PICTURE
Global warming is the gradual increase in the earth’s atmosphere’s temperature. The atmosphere is slowly getting thicker because of green house gasses. The gasses include water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons. These gasses are found in burning fossil fuels (Cars, and electricity plants), using aerosols, (Hair spray, spray paint), and many other things. When these gasses go up into the ozone layer, they make it thicker. This makes more, and more of the suns rays get trapped inside of the earth’s atmosphere, making the earth slowly heat up. This melts the polar ice caps, and raises the sea level. It also kills off lots of animals, like polar bears.


 * GLOBAL WARMING: CONTRIBUTING FACTORS **

Many things contribute to global warming. Some of these things include cows, cars, spray paint, electricity factories, manufacturing factories, burring fossil fuels, waste disposal plants, fossil fuel distributing, biomass burning, and many more things. The worst contributors are power stations, Industrial processes, and transportation fuels. They use petroleum, coal, and other gasses.


 * GLOBAL WARMING: LOCAL EFFECTS **

There are countless numbers of local effects from global warming. First up are the weather changes. The weather has begun to change dramatically in the past few decades. We have been experiencing more, and more hurricanes. We have also got less and less snow. Costal regions (Like Cape Cod) that the people in our community visit are slowly disintegrating. The global warming melts the polar ice caps, which in turn raises the water level world wide. This starts to eat away at the costal communities that we all like to visit. The fish we all love to eat for dinner, are slowly dying. The ocean’s temperature has begun to rise. It has only risen 2 degrees, and already a lot of fish have died out. We might not even be able to eat salmon if a few years.

A lot of people get over whelmed with all of this information, but there are lots of small things you can do to help. Some of these things are little, like shutting off lights when your not there, riding bikes more often, and unplugging things when you’re done with them. There are also big things you can do, like buying solar panels, and windmills, but those are more expensive. Personally, I think that the best thing that you can do is replacing your regular light bulbs, with energy saving light bulbs. They use less electricity, so it lowers your electricity bill, but also helps your planet. Electricity factories usually generate electricity by burning fossil fuels, and coals. By using less electricity, you are making the electricity factories make less electricity, which has them not have to burn as many fossil fuels. I would suggest that everyone replace their existing light bulbs, with power saving light bulbs. These can be found at your local hand wear store. They might cost a little more money, but in the long run, it will be worth it because we will still have a planet. It will also, over time, save you money on your energy bill.
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The Green House effect is what keeps us alive. It is not bad. Global warming is the gradual increase in the earth’s atmosphere’s temperature. The atmosphere is slowly getting thicker because of green house gasses. When these gasses go up into the atmosphere, they make it thicker. This melts the polar ice caps, and raises the sea level. Things like cows, cars, spray paint, electricity factories, manufacturing factories, burring fossil fuels, waste disposal plants, fossil fuel distributing, biomass burning, and many more things make up green house gasses. The worst contributors are power stations, Industrial processes, and transportation fuels. Costal regions are slowly disintegrating. The global warming melts the polar ice caps, which in turn raises the water level world wide. This starts to eat away at the costal communities. Personally, I think that the best thing that you can do is replacing your regular light bulbs, with energy saving light bulbs. They use less electricity, so it lowers your electricity bill, but also helps your planet. These light bulbs can be bought at home depot.
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