Global Warming Hazardous to your Health

Global Warming Hazardous to your Health

Introduction

Every day we go about our own business . Many of us never take the time to look around and see how we are affecting our earth 's atmosphere Everywhere you look today you are bound to see some factory or machinery polluting our air . Just think how many times you have seen those large semi trucks or big fossil fuel factories emitting thick dark smoke into the atmosphere . We need to come to reality and realize that all that polluting we have been doing over

the last half-century is finally catching up to us . It is very easy to detect through scientific research that our earth 's climate is changing , Time magazine reports in its 2004 issue that the earth 's average temperature is increasing at a steady rate . Yes , we all have heard the term global warming however many people don 't know in depth what global warming is , or how our actions will affect our earth if we don 't respond to the issue . If we can educate ourselves on what global warming is and how it will affect us in the near and far future , we can then begin to change our old habits of polluting and create new habits and goals to living in a much healthier and cleaner environment

This study intent to (1 ) know the effect of global warming worldwide thus knowing the global warming and doomsday and (2 ) widen our knowledge about the ozone slayer and do the humans are the reasons of causing global warming or if its just a natural process that the earth goes through

II . Background

A . What is global warming

Global Warming is an issue that concerns almost everybody worldwide : it is the primary cause for the erratic and sometimes devastating weather that is experienced around the world . Global warming is causing the rise in sea level which in turn causes the flooding of coastal areas and areas with low elevation . Is global warming really happening today Scientists with the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP ) believe it is so

It is indisputable that there has been a rise in the concentration of greenhouse gases (GHG ) in the atmosphere during the last century , which scientists think may be one of the causes of global warming . The climate change however is not a direct result of the rise in greenhouse gases

B . Global Warming and doomsday

Will global warming spell doom for our world ? Scientists believe this to be so . Much depends on what actions we take now and in the coming years ' Meteorologist Jagadish Shukla of the University of Maryland found out that deforestation would cause rainfall in the Amazon River to decline by more than 26 percent from the current 2 .5 m . to about 1 .8 m a year

At the same time , the burning of fossil fuels , particularly coal and oil , produces sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides which are hazardous to the atmosphere . Findings show that a single smokestack...