Global Warming

Global Warming is part of a greater process known as Climate Change. Global Warming could result in many various outcomes, many of which are catastrophic. It is known that the levels of carbon dioxide gas are increasing, as well as the average temperature, and that they have been for some time. In the past one hundred years the average temperature has risen between 1.2 and 1.4 degrees F. This could also be resulting in soon to be dramatic changes of climate, precipitation, winds, sea levels and any other part of our natural environment.

Climate change is an interchangeable term for Global Warming and is becoming the preferred term. The term climate change tells us that there are many other changes with the temperature, atmosphere, and our environment. Global Warming is often associated with the concern of the human contribution to climate change. Climate Change includes any large scale change of climate. Climate change is caused by natural factors, natural processes, and human contribution.

The steps our government has given us to help combat Global Warming are that we must slow the growth of emissions, strengthen knowledge about Global Warming in the fields of science and technology, and build better relations around the world to work on Global Warming together. The United States has worked together with other countries on many projects to help fight Global Warming such as the Asia Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate. The goal of these partnerships is to create better technologies and finding ways to give us renewable energy. Global Warming is a fact. Global Warming is shrinking glaciers and raising the sea levels. It is also disturbing the natural balances humans have been able to observe, record, and theorize with. Humans are also feeling the present effects of Global Warming, resulting in smog episodes, and dieses from being exposed to extreme periods of heat or cold.

Climate change is effecting the entire world as we know it. The ways climate change will effect plants, animals, and people should not be neglected. Trees are blooming earlier and growing seasons are growing longer. Seasons are changing. It is thought climate change will result in many different variations in weather patterns making some areas wetter, and some dryer. It is hard to predict how the Earth will be able to adapt to sustain life in these areas. Areas such as Alaska are beginning to see the most significant effects of today.

Unfortunately, we know that as simply human beings there is no way for us to truly control our entire climate. Global Warming is resulting in extreme climate change, relative to us as human beings, on a dramatic scale. The temperatures we are used to experiencing are increasing, and the temperatures needed for us as humans to survive on this planet may eventually become exceeded. That is why many organizations have been established to help reduce the human contribution to global warming. The United States Government, EPA, IPCC, UN, WMO, UNEP, and other organizations are all attempting to help better our knowledge and better our effects on the environment.

The science behind the history of climate change is a tale as old as time itself. It is known that the Earth has seen many extreme climate changes. From glacial periods to interglacial periods, climate change has always been there. Changes in the Orbit of the

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