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    Global warming is caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere from human activities like burning fossil fuels. The planet's average surface temperature has risen 0.8 degrees Celsius since the early 20th century, and evidence of warming comes from rising sea levels, melting glaciers, and earlier flowering of plants. While climate models depend on human behavior, scientists are over 95% certain that human activity is the dominant cause of global warming since 1950. To stop further warming, nations need to significantly cut greenhouse gas emissions.

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    James S. Alejo

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    Global warming is caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere from human activities like burning fossil fuels. The planet's average surface temperature has risen 0.8 degrees Celsius since the early 20th century, and evidence of warming comes from rising sea levels, melting glaciers, and earlier flowering of plants. While climate models depend on human behavior, scientists are over 95% certain that human activity is the dominant cause of global warming since 1950. To stop further warming, nations need to significantly cut greenhouse gas emissions.

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    Global warming is caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere from human activities like burning fossil fuels. The planet's average surface temperature has risen 0.8 degrees Celsius since the early 20th century, and evidence of warming comes from rising sea levels, melting glaciers, and earlier flowering of plants. While climate models depend on human behavior, scientists are over 95% certain that human activity is the dominant cause of global warming since 1950. To stop further warming, nations need to significantly cut greenhouse gas emissions.

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    James S. Alejo

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    Global warming is caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere from human activities like burning fossil fuels. The planet's average surface temperature has risen 0.8 degrees Celsius since the early 20th century, and evidence of warming comes from rising sea levels, melting glaciers, and earlier flowering of plants. While climate models depend on human behavior, scientists are over 95% certain that human activity is the dominant cause of global warming since 1950. To stop further warming, nations need to significantly cut greenhouse gas emissions.

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    GLOBAL WARMING

    by: James S. Alejo


    GLOBAL WARMING
    An increase in the earth’s atmospheric and
    oceanic temperatures widely predicted to
    occur due to an increase in the greenhouse
    effect resulting specially from pollution.
    GREENHOUSE EFFECT
    warming of the surface and lower atmosphere of a
    plane (such as Earth or Venus) that is caused by
    conversion of solar radiation into heat in a process
    involving selective transmission of short wave solar
    radiation by the atmosphere, its absorption by the planet’
    surface, and reradiation as infrared which is absorbed
    and party reradiated back to the surface by atmospheric
    gases.
    HOW DO WE KNOW GLOBAL
    WARMI NG IS REAL
    • The simplest way is through temperature
    measurement. Agencies in the United States,
    Europe, and Japan have independently
    analyzed historical temperature data and
    reached the same conclusion.
    The Earth’s average surface temperature has risen roughly
    0.8 degree Celsius (1.4 degrees Fahrenheit) since the early
    20th century. But that’s not the only clue. Scientists have also
    noted that glaciers and ice sheets around the world are
    melting. Satellite observations since the 1970s have shown
    warming in the lower atmosphere. There’s more heat in the
    ocean, causing water to expand and sea levels to rise.
    Plants are flowering earlier in
    many parts of the world. There’s
    more humidity in the
    atmosphere.
    How do we know humans are causing
    global warming?
    • Climate scientists say they are more than 95
    percent certain that human influence has been
    the dominant cause of global warming since
    1950. They’re about as sure of this as they are
    that cigarette smoke causes cancer.
    HOW HAS GLOBAL WARMING
    AFFECTED THE WORLD SO FAR
    •Here’s a list of ongoing changes that
    climate scientists have concluded are
    likely linked to global warming, as
    detailed by the IPCC here and here.
    WHAT IMPACTS WILL GLOBAL
    WARMING HAVE IN THE FUTURE
    • It depends on how much the planet actually heats
    up. The changes associated with 4 Celsius (or 7.2
    Fahrenheit) of warming are expected to be more
    dramatic than the changes associated with 2 C of
    warming.
    WHAT DO CLIMATE MODELS SAY ABOUT THE WARMING
    THAT COULD ACTUALLY HAPPEN IN THE COMING DECADES

    • That depends on your faith in humanity.


    • Climate models depends on not only
    complicated physics but the intricacies of
    human behavior over the entire planet.
    • Generally, the more greenhouse gases humanity pumps
    into the atmosphere, the warmer it will get. But
    scientists aren’t certain how sensitive the global climate
    system is to increase in greenhouse gases. And just how
    much we might emit over the coming decades remains
    an open question, depending on advances in technology
    and international efforts to cut emissions.
    HOW DO WE STOP GLOBAL
    WARMING

    •The world’s nations would need to cut


    their greenhouse gas emissions by a lot.
    And even wouldn’t stop all global
    warming.
    WHAT ARE WE ACTUALLY DOING
    TO FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE

    • A global problem requires global action, but


    when climate change, there is a yawning gap
    between ambition and action.

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