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= = = = =The dangers of Global Warming = =By Matt = 

THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT
The greenhouse effect is necessary for our survival and is basically the effect of a layer of our atmosphere that makes plants grow and keeps the earth from over heating. Greenhouse gases are gases that trap heat in the atmosphere . Global warming happens when more than needed greenhouse gasses, notably Carbon Dioxide, get pushed into the environment. It gets worse and worse every year, and hasn’t gotten much better because of people’s carelessness with the earth.

GLOBAL WARMING: THE BIG PICTURE
Global warming is the phrase used to say that the entire world is globally getting hotter. Global warming is a very bad thing, no matter how good it sounds. It sounds like longer summers and hotter weather, but in reality it’s destroying the o-zone layer and that means that harmful rays could get in and destroy the planet itself. Global warming Is causing the ice caps to melt and the glaciers to melt. If global warming continues to happen, the earth will heat to a much higher temperature, and we won’t be able to revert all of the changes that we have made.

 ==**GLOBAL WARMING: CONTRIBUTING FACTORS ** ==

Global warming is making the temperature a lot higher, destroying habitats for certain animals like Polar bears or penguins, where their main habitats are just ice and cold water. The Global warming causes the ice to melt and water to get warmer, eventually they will die out, and that will mess up the food chain, the world will flood, water levels will get higher, and fish will be more common because of the lack of penguins, polar bears, and other arctic animals to eat them and lower their population. We will also get a lot more hurricanes and Nor’easters because of the sudden change in water temperature when the glaciers and ice caps melt.  
 * <span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; color: black; line-height: 200%; font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Some of the contributors are **<span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black; line-height: 200%; font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> greenhouse gases, like carbon dioxide, aerosol concentration levels, like the stuff in spray paint cans, fossil fuels burning, like gasoline and coal burning, methane gas releasing into the air, from farms, overpopulation,<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> people consume more items which take more energy to make, create larger amounts of garbage, and using a refrigerator releases dangerous gases into the environment.
 * <span style="font-size: 18pt; color: #000000; line-height: 200%; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;">GLOBAL WARMING: LOCAL EFFECTS **<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 200%; font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">

<span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 18pt; color: black; line-height: 200%; font-family: Verdana; msobidifontfamily: Arial; msobidifontweight: bold;"> ==<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; line-height: 200%; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;">**<span style="font-size: 18pt; color: #000000; line-height: 200%; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;">WHAT YOU CAN DO DIFFERENTLY: ** ==

<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">To My Town: If you want to lower the greenhouse effect and stop global warming, you can commit to riding a bike to places instead of driving everywhere. If you do have to drive, you could carpool with others to save them from adding to the problem of global warming. The gas fumes emitted by a car can pollute the air and destroy the atmosphere. if you need a new car, you could buy a hybrid car that runs on electricity or water and just emits water vapor into the air. With a hybrid car you can save up to 250$ per month, it is evening out to being an equally expensive car, compared to a regular gas-user, but you’re saving money on gas. So not only are you conserving gasoline and helping the environment, but you’re saving and conserving your money too. To conserve energy, you can turn off your lights when nobody is in the room and you can turn off your computer when you aren’t using it, to save electricity. When you conserve electricity, you not only save the environment, but you save money too. Depending on how many bulbs you turn off you can save around $20.00 per bulb every year. If you turn off a bunch, it can save you hundreds. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">



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**<span style="font-size: 18pt; color: #000000; line-height: 200%; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;">A SUMMARY OF YOUR RESEARCH **
<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 200%; font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> My research that I have made has showed me how harmful emitting unnecessary gases into the environment are. If you pollute the air it can cause global warming to speed up and get worse. If we don’t stop a lot of really bad things will happen to the earth when global warming gets bad. When it gets really bad and the glaciers melt, we will probably all die, if not from the floods, from all of the hurricanes and the nor’easters that come and destroy the world. There will be a lot more hurricanes and nor’easters because of the melting of glaciers and permanent heating of water, since they form when the water is hotter than the air. If you don’t conserve energy you get a huge bill and the generators that create energy work for longer and cause more pollution. All you have to do to do your part in saving the environment, is to turn off lights when you aren’t using them. I know that I will change how I live and what I do, will you? <span style="font-size: 18pt; color: black; line-height: 200%; font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 18pt; color: black; line-height: 200%; font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">

**<span style="font-size: 18pt; color: #000000; line-height: 200%; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;">BIBLIOGRAPHY **
<span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black; line-height: 200%; font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> Solomon, S., D. Qin, M. Manning (eds.) Future Climate Change <span style="font-size: 17pt; color: black; line-height: 200%; font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"> __ US ____ Environmental Protection Agency. __ <span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black; line-height: 200%; font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN;">January 12th, 2009 <span style="font-size: 7.5pt; color: black; line-height: 200%; font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> June 1, 2009 http://epa.gov/climatechange/science/futurecc.html

**Global Warming – Causes** Miller, G. Tyler Jr. __Living in the Environment__. Belmont: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1987. Steger, Will and Bowermaster, Jon. __Saving the Earth__. New York: Bryon Preiss, 1990. <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">[] [] Greenhouse effect. (2002). In // UNEP/GRID-Arendal Maps and Graphics Library //. Retrieved 16:10, June 4, 2009 from []. Mike Hussein Cohen " **<span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Study: Hybrids Don’t Cost More to Repair **<span style="font-size: 22.5pt; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">    HybridCARS Published February 10, 2009   June 4, 2009, []