Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Global Warming

At the end of September the United Nations released their six-year update on the state of the climate. They stated in this update the they are 95% sure that global warming is due to human factors. They state many of the problems in their findings. Claiming that the carbon dioxide levels are at the highest they've been in the past 800,000 years. This is a very startling fact, but it makes sense. With the increased use of fossil fuels and many of the other things that put carbon dioxide into the air, it is no wonder the levels are so high. The United Nations also said that see levels are predicted to rise at a faster rate than over the past 40 years. It could rise anywhere from ten to thirty inches. This rising of the sea level could affect many coastal cities. The rising of sea level is no doubt because of the melting of the greenland and arctic ice shelfs and glaciers. All signs point to humans being the ones who have caused these problems. The only solutions would be to stop putting so many greenhouse gases into the air and let the earth fix itself. Unless there was a way to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere at a large scale. That could be a great area of research.

1 comment:

  1. I found your blog to be true. It is sad that humans know the damage their doing but they are still going to cause damage. I did however find that the amount of carbon dioxide being emitted has decreased. this is a good thing because it was responsible for so much in previous years.

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