Global Warming, is it a Deadly Trend?

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This paper explains the environmental phenomenon known as global warming and looks at what is causing the problem as well as what we should be doing to minimize its effects. It describes the effects that global warming has on the ecosystem, human health and the sea level and discusses some immediate measures that should be taken to help curb the problem.

Outline
The Greenhouse Effect
Global Warming and Agriculture
Global Warming and Human Health
Global Warming and Sea Level Rise
Conclusion: Zero Emissions?

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"According to A Primer on Global Warming, life on earth is dependent on the so-called "greenhouse effect," which keeps the planet about 59 degrees F warmer than it would otherwise be. It was the French mathematician and physicist Jean Fourier who first described in 1827 how Earth's thin atmospheric blanket warms the earth. The atmosphere, Fourier suggested, possesses special greenhouse-like properties that permit solar energy to enter and strike the earth as visible light, but which then impeded the energy's return into space as infrared heat. These "properties" are in fact the so-called greenhouse gases, which permit solar energy as visible light to pass through the atmosphere, but which absorb and re-radiate a portion of the same energy as it leaves Earth's surface as infrared heat. The net effect is a warming of the atmosphere. The relative warmth of a cloudy versus a cloud-free night sky is an accentuated example of this effect, since the water vapor making up clouds is itself a greenhouse gas."

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