Global Warming--is It Getting Warmer

By definition, the greenhouse effect is a term for the role the atmosphere plays in insulating and warming the earth's surface. In modern society, this is the term for something better known as global warming. The earth’s climate is predicted to change drastically in the next century due to human activity. As the population of the world increases, so does the anount of greenhouse gasses produced. These include mainly carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide.
Carbon dioxide is released to the atmosphere when solid waste, fossil fuels (oil, natural gas, and coal), and wood and wood products are burned. Methane is emitted during the production and transport of coal, natural gas, and ...

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in the troposphere absorb some of the infrared radiation. The gases insulate the Earth, but do eventually allowing some of the heat to escape. The rest of the heat reflects back down to earth where it is bounced back up again. Almost like an ongoing game of ping-pong. With more of the greenhouse gasses being let out into the atmosphere, there are more ping-pong balls going back and forth. Granted, without these greenhouse gasses, the earth would almost freeze and fall into another ice age, but with all this extra heat, the average temperature of the earth will rise causing drastic damage.
What sort of damage you ask? It is predicted that the earths average tempature could rise as much as 6 ° F in the next hundred years. (Encarta 2000) If this does happen, precipitation will increase causing rising sea levels. This alone will be drastic to soociety, but the indirect results could be even more devestating than just flooding. World climates would change tremendously, possibly ...

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