Term Papers on Global Warming

Term Paper Title	Global Warming
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# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	8.6

Global Warming

Mission Plan

a. Analysis of the Problem

1. History of the Problem

               Some scientist's have been concerned since 1896 about what might happen
if there were 5.5 billion tons carbon dioxide in our atmosphere. In 1961 a
British scientist did an experiment showing that the carbon in the air was
absorbing some of  the sun's radiation. Afterward a Swedish scientist, Suante
Arrhenius, found out if the radiation of the sun was trapped in the carbon
dioxide the temperature of the earth would increase by 1-2 degrees. In 1988
James Hanson, a respected scientist, told the U.S. Congress "the greenhouse
effect is occurring now and it's changing global climate."(1989 Koral). After
the 1900's people started making factories and started using fossil fuels like
coal, oil, and aluminum. It was the industrial revolution and overpopulation of
humans that was the cause of the environmental problems that we have today.

2. Human Activity Causing the Problem

               The reason our Earth is getting hotter is that human activities are
emitting too much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.  The radiation from the
sun gets trapped in the bag of carbon dioxide that surrounds our earth.
               One main reason for the problem of global warming is the burning of
fossil fuels. Fossil fuels are coal, oil and natural gases. We use these fuels
to run factories, power plants, cars, trucks, buses, air conditioning and etc.
The people of the earth are putting 5.5 billion tons of carbon, in the form of
carbon dioxide in the air every year!  Seventy five percent of this is fossil
fuels.

3. Impact Causing Global Change

               For many years, scientists have been predicting that our disregard for
Mother Nature would make the climatic temperature of this Earth to increase
greatly.  There have been arguments that the whole idea of Global Warming is a
hoax, that the temperature cycle is just experiencing an upward trend and will
eventually come back down.  Now, however, we are starting to see the evidence of
our behavior.
               Remember the great heat wave in Chicago?  That could have been a
consequence of global warming.  Nearly a hundred people died, and the city's
economy came to a standstill.  A much more tragic but less known heat wave
smashed into India, causing upward of 600 deaths.
               Global Warming doesn't only increase temperatures in hot areas.  It also
decreases temperatures in cold areas.  An example of  this has been the cold
spell that struck the midwest.  In Montana, temperatures plummeted to 30 degrees
below and stayed there. The coldest weather ever recorded plagued our country's
heart for over three weeks, and still hasn't returned to normal.  A related
incident has been the blizzards of  the east coast. Some places in New York
State got over twenty feet of snow.
               On a Native Island, where native tribes live, if the sea level rises
three fourths of a meter then half of the island will sink.  This will happen in
many different islands around the world and if the water keeps on rising as it
is, then farming land near the seashores will be flooded and the crops will be
destroyed.
               Like California and other states, we are adding CO2 and changing the
earth's weather.  Some places are getting too little water which causes a
drought and other places get too much water which causes a flood.
               In California,  there was an almost permanent drought during the
eighties.  This was gone in the nick of time by the great rainstorms of 1995.
We also experienced a frightening cold spell in 1992.

The Road Ahead
               With all these obvious scourges plaguing us now, it seems that things
cannot get any worse. However, the current droughts, floods, and storms are just
the tip of the iceberg. If the greenhouse effect continues unabated, then the
inhabitants of Planet Earth have some surprises in store.
               Scientists estimate that the global temperature will...

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