Global Warming...

Odessa’s Global Warming Blog.

Have you heard of Global warming? If so, do you know what causes it? Do you know what it does? If not, this is a good place to start.

Global Warming is a phenomenon that has been occurring since around the mid 20^th century. Global Warming is caused by massive amounts of carbon emissions and greenhouse gases, if you do not know where carbon comes from, here are some good examples: Cars, lawn mowers and humans naturally emit carbon. There are a plethora of cars running, lawn mowers, and humans emitting carbon everyday.

When all this carbon is emitted it is gradually destroying the ozone layer, which most life needs to survive the sun’s callous waves that may give you skin cancer or waves that just kill you completely. Now that you know what it is and what it does, I am going to go in depth about global warming. Scientists from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) can tell Global warming is in full effect. (From the NOAA official website) The NOAA says that the first 6 months of 2007 were warmer and had less precipitation than the average for the U.S. Actually, you may have noticed some of the changes, for example, have the winters where around you live been shorter or warmer or not as much snow around where you live? In January, around D.C (where I live.) it got to be 80 degrees, very rare temperatures for D.C in the winter. All of that I mentioned is “probably” caused by some of the ozone loss, but then again, it could be sheer coincidence.

If you think not having a winter is bad, here are some more changes that could come into fruition, as a result of global warming: more extreme storms like Hurricane Katrina (Some storms may get so terrible that they may have to give the storm higher than level 5), melting of polar ice caps (If the ice caps melt then some of our beaches will be gone), ponds and lakes (like the great lakes for example) possibly drying up into nothingness(with no bodies of water that means no fish) and other ghastly things of that nature.

So what can you do to ease global warming? You can not drive your car as much (ride a bus or train or ride a bike) mow your lawn once in a blue moon, and basically don’t do anything that emits a lot of carbon and/or gases. If you would do those things, you would be really helping the future generations to come…and Earth as well.

Sources: http://www.noaa.gov/

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2007/s2890.htm