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The Greenhouse Effect__ ** The greenhouse effect is when the earth’s temperature increases due to the fact that greenhouse gasses trap heat radiated from the earth. The energy from the sun heats up the earth. Without these gasses, the earth would be 60 degrees colder. In other words, we need them to survive. Some of the most popular greenhouse gasses are water vapor, carbon dioxide, and methane. Although we can’t help the fact that we have water vapor, people add more carbon dioxide and methane everyday. This makes the greenhouse effect even stronger than the start. The carbon dioxide is mostly dispensed by burnt gasoline and from factories.
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 * __Global Warming: The Big Picture __**

Global warming is a term that is used to describe the warming of the earth and the climate changes that it brings along with it. So far, the earth’s temperature has increased by about 1 degree in the last hundred years. The earth keeps getting hotter because the energy from the earth is getting re-radiated as it gets hotter. All that radiation is basically like putting steroids into the effect making it stronger. Most of it is caused by humans creating these greenhouse gasses. We mostly cause these gasses by driving too much with “gas guzzling”, and from factories producing goods. This results in hotter summers and warmer winters. If this continues to happen, some of the possible effects could be an increase in temperature and an ultimate increase in precipitation.

There are a lot of contributions to global warming. We as humans have a lot of needs that are not natural. Because they are not natural resources, we have factories to make these needs. These factories use fossil fuels to produce energy. When these fossil fuels are burnt in order to make energy, they produce smoke and release it into the air. The gas it releases into the air is carbon dioxide. Some examples of fossil fuels are gas also known as petroleum, and coal. Carbon dioxide takes up 58 % of the greenhouse gasses in the air. Other than carbon factories and cars, another way of greenhouse gas deposition is cows. Believe it or not, cows can cause a bigger amount of methane gas into the air. The cow have methane gas inside their stomachs so when one burps of farts, the methane gas is released into the air. There were over 2.1,000,000 cows in the year 2000 and growing. Methane gas takes up as much as  **__Local Effects Of Global Warming __** Although it may not be right in your area, global warming melts the ice caps of Alaska. This does affect you because the melted water from the ice caps leaks into the ocean. This makes the sea levels and will eventually end up leaving the whole world under water. Some places like Tuvalu are almost all the way under water. Global warming also changes the weather. Global raises the temperatures which ultimately causes more precipitation. When there is more rain, this also dumps into the ocean causing the raising of sea levels. All of these effects are irascible and if we continue all these effects will continue to get worse. As you can see, global warming affects us and the people of the world.
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One Way that we can change reduce global warming is by walking whenever possible. How many times have you asked your parents to drive you somewhere that weren’t far away? The fact is that cars produces carbon dioxide which takes up 58% of the greenhouse gasses. The way that this produces carbon dioxide is by burning fossil fuels. The fossil fuel used in gas is petroleum. When people go to the gas station for gas they get more of this fossil fuel. When they start to drive, the gas is getting burned which produces the black smoke that you see coming out of the muffler of the car. Within this smoke lies the carbon dioxide. If we don’t change this habit it can affect us in a lot of ways. For one thing, the carbon dioxide can end up in our rain which ultimately ends up in our drinking water which is not good for you if you drink it. It can burn your stomach and hurt you damage your teeth. So instead of asking your mom to drive you up a couple of blocks, you can walk or ride a bicycle instead. You can either not be lazy, or ultimately kill our planet. The choice is yours whether you want to keep this planet that we live on, or just be lazy. So Lets Recap __** Global warming is when the earth is getting hotter due to greenhouse gasses. Some of these greenhouse gasses include methane, carbon dioxide, and water vapor. We as humans have things that need to be made artificially with a limited amount of fossil fuels. If we don’t find alternate ways to harness that energy then it will eventually be gone. Some alternate ways that we’ve found so far are hybrid cars, solar power, and water energy. It is up to us to do as much as we can to not use enough energy. Some things we can do are walk or ride a bike instead of ride in a car, recycle, and not use as much energy in our houses. We as people need to do what we can to keep and protect the planet that we live on.
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