Global Warming

In the past year people talked a lot about the global warming and how it will affect our lives. Global warming is the change of the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere due to the increase of greenhouse gases resulting especially from pollution. If this problem doesn't decrease in the next years we will live in an unhealthy environment.
There are a lot problems we are facing at this time. The first one is that people don’t know about the global warming so we should teach them and tell them how they can deal with it. We also need to tell them how to stop so we can live properly. Then we come to greenhouse gases which is “the process by which absorption and emission of infrared radiation by atmospheric gases warm a planet's lower atmosphere and surface” (Wikipedia). The green house gases are trapped in our atmosphere so if they can’t get out our planet becomes hotter every year. Then we have the melting ice which will cause floods if we didn’t stop the global warming effects on our environment. As Al Gore says “the ice bergs are melting” (An Inconvenient Truth). If we didn’t stop the ice bergs and the North and South Pole from melting we could suffer a lot of floods and the death of hundreds of thousands of people all over the world. The “sea level has been rising at an average rate of 1.7 mm/year (plus or minus 0.5mm) over the past 100 years” (NCDC.com).
On the other hand there are some solutions that we can do to help stop global warming. The first one is we could switch to green power because it’s cleaner and safer “The U.S. Department of Energy estimates that for every kilowatt-hour of green power produced, one less pound of CO2 is emitted” (green house choices.com). Then we stop driving our old fuel cars and start using the biofuel cars so we can help stop global warming. We need to put some laws to stop global warming.
In conclusion we should protect our planet because we only have one. We really should defeat global warming so we can protect our children.

Bibliography:
- An Inconvenient Truth.Dir. Davis Guggenheim. Perf. Al Gore. DVD. Paramount Classics, 2006.
- www.Wikipedia.com
- http://www.greenerchoices.org/globalwarmingsavecarbon.cfm
- http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/globalwarming.html