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    Global warming, also known as climate change, is caused by an increase in greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide from human activities such as burning fossil fuels. This causes the atmosphere to warm to unnatural temperatures, leading to problems like rising sea levels and changes in rainfall patterns. While some greenhouse gases occur naturally and are beneficial, human emissions have added excessive amounts and threaten catastrophic climate change if emissions continue unabated. Controlling carbon dioxide emissions could help interrupt and reduce these risks.

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    Global warming, also known as climate change, is caused by an increase in greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide from human activities such as burning fossil fuels. This causes the atmosphere to warm to unnatural temperatures, leading to problems like rising sea levels and changes in rainfall patterns. While some greenhouse gases occur naturally and are beneficial, human emissions have added excessive amounts and threaten catastrophic climate change if emissions continue unabated. Controlling carbon dioxide emissions could help interrupt and reduce these risks.

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    Global warming, also known as climate change, is caused by an increase in greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide from human activities such as burning fossil fuels. This causes the atmosphere to warm to unnatural temperatures, leading to problems like rising sea levels and changes in rainfall patterns. While some greenhouse gases occur naturally and are beneficial, human emissions have added excessive amounts and threaten catastrophic climate change if emissions continue unabated. Controlling carbon dioxide emissions could help interrupt and reduce these risks.

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    Final Draft: Extended Definition

    Global Warming

    Global Warming, also known as global climate change, is a natural phenomenon

    where there is an average increase in temperature near the Earth's surface and in the

    lowest layer of the atmosphere due to effect of greenhouse gasses, such as carbon

    dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels or from deforestation, enables the heat to

    exit from the atmosphere. According to Dickinson suggested by Broecker (1987)

    temperature is a basic measurement for describing the climate, and the temperature in

    particular places have wide-ranging effects on human life and ecosystem.

    According to Goldstein and Harrison (Global Issues page 6) Global warming can

    have many different causes but it is most commonly associated with human

    interference, specially the release of excessive amount of greenhouse gasses. Human

    activity such as burning fossil fuels causes more greenhouse gases to build up in the

    atmosphere. As the atmosphere thickens with more greenhouse gases, more heat is

    held in. Fossil fuels such as oil, coal and natural gas are high in carbon and, when

    burned, produce major amounts of carbon dioxide or CO2. A single gallon of gasoline,

    when burned, puts 19 pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.


    Naturally occurring greenhouse gases are good in naturally occurring amounts

    it's when people start contributing excessive amounts of them that greenhouse gasses

    become a problem. With excessive greenhouse gas buildup, the Earth's atmosphere

    warms to unnatural temperatures which causes, among the things; sea level to rise.

    Global warming also causes sea surface temperatures to rise, rainfall patterns to

    change. According to Ramanathan and Victor (Global Warming page 74) this doesn't

    mean that humanity would not have to deal with CO2 emissions and would not be

    storing up future trouble by continuing to emit at our present pace but it would interrupt

    and, perhaps even more importantly, significantly reduce the chances of catastrophic

    climate change.
    REFERENCE

    Ramanathan, V., & Victor, D. (2012). Advancing the science of Climate Change:
    America's Climate Choices. California: Publishing Solutions.

    Goldstein, N., & Harrison, K. (2010). Global Issues: Global Warming. New York, New
    York: Infobase Publishing.

    Dickinson, R. (1989). Climatic Change:Uncertainties of Estimates of Climatic Change.


    Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

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