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Global Warning - Essay

Global Warning

As the world's expanding population burns large quantities of fossil fuels and simultaneously cuts down large expanses of forests worldwide, the concentrations of CO2 and other greenhouse gases are building up in the atmosphere. "The green house effect is the (imperfect) analogy used to explain the atmospheric phenomenon that keeps our planet warm enough to sustain life." There is mounting evidence that this shift in Earth's atmosphere will lead to global changes and potentially major climatic disruptions . The major concern is not that the greenhouse effect is real;"we wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t." It’s that it "may be exacerbated by anthropogenic increases in the effective gasses, ...

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the effects of other pressures and to disrupt our lives in numerous ways. "Melting icebergs and expanding oceans may cause floods." The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicts that there will be an increase in sea level by the year 2100 of 1.5 feet . "Twenty Five percent of the world’s population lives less than 1.1 meters above see level." The IPCC also predicts that there will be " droughts, heat waves, expanding deserts, ecosystem disruption and increasingly severe weather", as well as the productivity of agriculture, which are among the probable consequences of climate change.
There is a huge conflict over the costs of addressing the greenhouse gas problem. "There appears to be a general agreement that energy efficiency is the wave of the future." Many in the environmental community see the benefits as high and the costs of mitigation as low. Others, including some in the business community, see the benefits as low and the costs as high . "One argument ...

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Added: 9/16/2008 07:13:27 PM
Category: Science & Nature
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