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Global warming is the warming of the Earth. The cause of global warming is greenhouse gases getting trapped in the troposphere making Earth warmer. Some of the greenhouse gases are carbon, methane and cfcs. This process is good because if it did not happen the Earth would not be warm enough to survive. It is harmful if it happens too much. In fact, according to a movie about global warming, 25% of the CO 2 in the atmosphere comes from the United States. Therefore, America emits a lot of just one of the greenhouse gases. Some of the effects of global warming are extreme temperatures, melting ice and snow, rising sea levels, species extinction, and extreme weather effects. Some believe that global warming is not really happening. One effect of global warming is extreme temperatures. As more greenhouse gases get trapped into the atmosphere, the temperatures will continue to rise. There is already some evidence to support the theory that global warming is causing higher temperatures. According to a movie about global warming with Tom Brokwa, because of higher temperatures, 3000 people died in Europe in the year of 2003. In the movie it also says that 739 people died in Chicago in the year of 1995. The warmer temperatures have affected everyone. Those in China are mentioned in the movie. Former farmland in China has now turned to desert. Not only is global warming causing warming temperatures but warmer temperatures are causing the melting of ice and snow. More effects of global warming are the melting of ice and snow from temperatures rising and rising sea levels. Several pieces of evidence to support the belief that global warming is causing ice and snow to melt was shown in Al Gore’s //An Inconvenient Truth.// In his movie Gore says that 40% of the Alaskan Arctic ice shelf has melted. Gore also speaks about the melting of ice in Mt. Kilimanjaro, the Larson B ice shelf, and the tundra in Alaska. In another movie focusing on global warming with Tom Brokwa it says that the Arctic has lost as much ice as twice the size of Texas. If the ice continues to melt, sea levels will rise. The global warming movie it says the seas have risen four to ten inches. It is also predicted in the movie that by the end of the century, oceans will rise by three feet. What people do not think about is the ice and snow that is melting is causing animals to loose their habitats. Some of these animals may even become extinct. Several animals may go extinct because of global warming. An example an animal is the polar bear. Tom Brokwa says in a global warming movie that there were at one time 1200 polar bears, now there are under 900. There has been a 15% decrease of polar bears since the 1980s. It is predicted in the movie mentioned that by the end of the century, half of the species will be lost. If global warming is happening and is caused by humans, there are simple things people can do to slow it down. In the Tom Brokwa global warming movie, a few of these plans are mentioned. One small solution is recycling. Using recycled products uses a lot less energy. The article "A Plan To Keep Carbon In Check" by Socolow and Pacala says to cut back amounts of electricity. People can also use alternatives to cars. Some of these alternatives from the movie incude using hybrid cars, car pooling and taking public transportation. Some can even walk or ride a bicycle. These small tasks could help change the future. With such small tasks the world could change their ways rather quickly. The world needs to stop using all of these greenhouse gas emmiting vehicles and make way for environmentally friendly decisions. Only when the world changes will the global warming problems began to dissolve. **__ Product __** A survey was conducted by asking people the question “Is global warming happening?” Twenty two people asked believe global warming is happening. Nat Glynn, a student at Newton Conover Health Science School answered yes to the question. Glynn said “ice caps are melting and weather patterns are changing.” When asked the question, six responded global warming is not happening. Another Newton School student, Donta Bost answered no and believes what is happening is “nothing but a cycle.” The survey showed a majority of twenty eight people believe global warming is happening.


 * __OUR FUTURE & GLOBAL WARMING__**

If this cycle of “//Global Warming//” continues to suffocate the Earth, our future is sure to be filled with even more disadvantages that we blindly take for granted today. We would have to spend an abundant of cash just to try to at least (to not stop) but slow down the process of the rapidly changing temperature. With our future generations forced to suffer the aftermath of what the major population has caused modernly, we are held to be responsible. Many interviewed high school students has agreed that Global Warming is real; and as for the other smaller group who had agreed that it was just a cycle we are going through – they’ve claimed that it could all possibly be just government conspiracy to fool the people. Those who has not been able to make a choice has said that it could just be mildly happening in reality, but we are here to perhaps boost the process even faster than what it’s supposed to be. Global Warming is becoming more and more of a future threat. Professor Andrew Haines of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine has quoted that “//climate change could bring some health benefits, such as lower cold-related mortality and greater crop yields in temperate zones, but these will be greatly outweighed by increased rates of other diseases."// Throughout the passing of 750,000 years of Earth's history, Ice Ages have occurred at a generic rate of approximately 100,000 years each. "If 'ice age' is used to refer to long, generally cool, intervals during which glaciers advance and retreat, we are still in one today. Our modern climate represents a very short, warm period between glacial advances." [|**Illinois State Museum**]

Arms, Karen. __Holt Environmental Science__. New York: Holt Rinehart & Winston, 2000.
 * __Works Cited__**

__Global Warming__. Perf. Tom Brokwa. video cassette.  Hieb, Monte. "Global Warming: A Chilling Perspective." __A Brief History of Ice Ages and Warming__. October 5, 2007. mhieb@geocraft.com. 12 Mar 2009 [] __An Inconvienient Truth.__ Perf. Al Gore. DVD. Paramount Pictures. 2006.

Robert H. Socolow and Stephen W. Pacala. "A Plan To Keep Carbon In Check." __Scientific American__. _warming/photo9.html>.