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Global Warming Persuasive Essay

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Global warming has been an increasing problem throughout the world. Over the years people have worried about the situation and tried to come up with ways to solve the situation. What exactly is global warming, and how could we stop it? The trapping of infrared radiation within the atmosphere. Sounds bad right? Actually this is what keeps the Earths temperature at a habitable range. It’s only when the Ozone allows more than what naturally comes through, until it’s possibly dangerous. How does the Ozone let more through exactly? Well, humans have been destroying the Ozone for decades with gases called “greenhouse gases”. These greenhouse gases are essentially “Ozone eaters” because they completely destroy the Ozone. These gases include: chlorofluorocarbons, nitrous oxide, methane, and carbon dioxide. Many of these are given off by things like car exhausts, power plants, and old aerosol cans. Just one atom of chlorine can destroy more than one hundred thousand Ozone molecules (according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency). What exactly is the Ozone? The Ozone is a naturally occurring belt of “Ozone” …show more content…

So is it possible that the cycle is natural and not man made? The first ice age happened approximately twenty-four billion years ago. The second about 700 million years ago, then 430 million years ago, and 330 million years ago. The most recent ice age took place only five million years ago. Between all of the ice ages were warming periods. If history is repeating itself then we should be seeing an increase in temperature. The bigger question is whether or not humans have accelerated the increase in temperature. Charts show that we are on the incline of temperature change and just looking at it seems like it is just like every other warming period. However, the possibility of an increased rate of warmth is still

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