Wednesday, July 8, 2009

The Scientific Explatnation for Climate Change

The earth’s various climate changes have created many conflicts that seem impossible to solve, but there has never been a conflict as enormous as global warming. Al Gore and Mark Maslin have witnessed this first hand, and as they continuously spread the news, global warming will continue its journey. According to Mark Maslin, “The temperature of the Earth is controlled by the balance between the input from energy of the sun and the loss of this back into space” (Maslin, “What is Global Warming?” p.4). This created a load of greenhouse gases that causes nature to react in a way that no one can prepare for. Greenhouse gases aren’t the only thing that helps create global warming; carbon dioxide, also known as CO2, is one of the leading causes of this new terror. Although global warming has existed for centuries, people still do not pay attention to it. They tend to pay more attention to wars and other problems going on around the world.
Infrared radiation is the irritation that causes Mother Nature to react in such a horrifying way that no one can survive it. The earth absorbs energy from the sun that has to return back as infrared radiation. As the infrared radiation is being released into space, it gets trapped and it creates a thicker atmosphere that turns into pollution, which creates heat. The heat becomes so powerful that it starts many forest fires and volcanoes. However, no one has found a way to stop these melting weather conditions. Many people call this beautiful glorious earth home, but what was once know as a home has turned into a reality that seems impossible to escape.
Carbon dioxide is released everyday into the atmosphere by people who call this earth their hometown. According to Davis Guggenheim’s film, An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore stated that the world would be exposed to global warming if no one put an end to it. Roger Rabel was the first person to measure the killer gas that goes by the name of Carbon Dioxide. In 1968, Rabel predicted where global warming would be decades from 1968, and it would rise up to its most dangerous time period. Global warming has become a part of everyone’s everyday life. As the northern hemisphere tilts toward the sun, CO2 experiences a decrease in gas. However, as the Southern Hemisphere is tilted toward the sun, leaves of all sort fall into the river and create a great deal of global warming. 90% of the sun that hits ice glaciers get reflected back to the atmosphere. 90% of the sun’s energy that hits the water gets absorbed. That water later establishes warmer weather, which evolves into hurricanes, tornadoes, and all sorts of natural disasters. In 2005, one of the worse cases of weather was recorded. What started out as a thunderstorm turned into a killer hurricane. Hurricane Katrina was the reason for about 3,000 deaths. The United States of America has never experienced Mother Nature like this. Not only did global warming cause many deaths, but it also discovered many new diseases that were attracted to people.
Everyone would love to see global warming vanish, but with the help of humans, global warming will become so powerful that it will soon take over the world. Instead of finding a solution to global warming, the military spends its time creating weapons such as nuclear bombs. Not only would they make weapons, but they would also help global warming by killing many people. In about 50 years, ice glaciers are expected to melt, and the weather is expected to increase so high that it will shatter records set before. Global warming will continue destroying the earth if no one gets the world to realize what is at stake for future generations.

An Inconvenient Truth. Dir. Davis Guggenheim. Perf. Al Gore. DVD. Paramount, 2005

Maslin, Mark. Global Warming: A Very Short Introductions (Very Short Introductions). New York University Press, USA, 2008

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