Global Warming

Environmental Studies > Air Pollution
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Environmental Studies > Environmental Problems

Global Warming

A discussion of the causes and effects of global warming, and ways to avert it.

1,275 words () | 4 sources | 2000 United States

Paper Summary:

This research paper argues that global warming is a very real threat to the earth. The paper gives scientific evidence, shows examples of global warming?s effects today, and looks at ways that disaster can be prevented.

From the Paper:

"One of the hottest topics in the United States is the issue of global warming. This issue, once discounted and ridiculed as the wild imaginings of over enthusiastic environmentalists and "tree lovers," is now being taken seriously by scientists, politicians, business leaders, and the American environmentalist community. Environmental scientists have been trying to warn these groups that our continued use of coal and petroleum products, as well as established business practices such as dumping industrial wastes into the air and waterways, would be the cause of a natural phenomena called the greenhouse effect, or global warming. Now, when the earth's biosphere is obviously suffering adverse ecological effects from a century of carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, and methane emissions, it is apparent to even the most skeptical anti-environmentalists that global warming is real."