“Global warming is too serious for the world any longer to ignore its danger or split into opposing factions on it1”. Global warming has been around since the 1930s2 , which is when scientists began to notice weather patterns, but now it has grown into such a grave matter that it can no longer be overlooked or downgraded. Imagine living on a planet where over 90 per cent of it is treacherous waters and less than 10 per cent is dry barren land, though it doesn’t seem likely; it is, all because of global warming. The Earth is at its highest temperature since the last ice age. Global warming takes environmental tolls and provides technological issues. Lately, humans have begun to take affirmative and have tried to reduce their ecological footprint, but how far are humans actually the main cause of global warming? …show more content…
Global warming is an increase in the temperature of the Earth’s atmosphere which is generally attributed to the greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect is the trapping of the sun's warmth in a planet's lower atmosphere due to the greater transparency of the atmosphere to visible radiation from the sun than to infrared radiation emitted from the planet's surface. The recent rise in temperature has had several negative consequences. Rising sea-levels caused by global warming threaten many coastal communities. Amongst the cities at risk are Miami, Los Angeles, London, Tokyo, Shanghai, and Venice. Island nations are at an increased risk as well; these include the Maldives, Kiribati, Galapagos, and