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The Causes Of Global Warming

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One of the biggest problems we face in the world today, is global warming. Many climate scientists believe that the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and deforestation is causing our earth’s climate to heat. Greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide are trapping heat from the sun in our atmosphere, which causes ice to melt, sea levels to rise, temperatures to rise and some animal species population to decline.
Many climate scientists agree that the main cause of global warming today is too much carbon dioxide in our atmosphere, acting as a blanket and trapping heat in, warming the planet. We create global warming by burning fossil fuels (coal, oil, gas etc) and burning down our forests to make plantations. When carbon dioxide is released into our atmosphere, it hangs around for many centuries. The more carbon dioxide released into the air, the more the suns energy gets trapped in our atmosphere as heat and at this rate, by the end of the century, will have risen by six degrees.
Due to global warming, ice is melting all over the world including, mountain glaciers, ice sheets that cover west Antarctica and Greenland and Arctic sea ice, causing sea levels to rise, more quickly. They are expected to rise between 18 and 59 centimetres by the end of the century and water temperatures will increase. Global warming also affects many species living at the earths poles. For instance, the number of breeding pairs of Adelie penguins on Antarctica have dropped from 32,000 to 11,000 in 30 years. Another animal being affected by global warming is polar bears. As sea ice melts, two thirds of polar bears will disappear by 2050. It is also expected that global warming will also cause the population of seals, polar bears prey, to decline. This polar bears will go hungry for longer periods of time, resulting in cannibalism. Additionally, as temperatures increase around the world, there is an increase in extreme weather events. Storms are able to absorb energy from the water temperature causing hurricanes and typhoons.
We can help stop global warming by reducing fossil fuel use, planting waste, reducing waste and conserving water. Burning fossil fuels increases the levels of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere. We can

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