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  • Essay / Persuasive Essay on Global Warming - 1455

    The Express, a news company, just gave 100 reasons why global warming is natural, but when you look at the facts, it's simply not true. Our Earth has had a stable temperature for over 100 years (Nasa)! 100 hundred years! Then one day these so-called things called "humans" started building all their factories and completely defiled our world (Nasa). The year is 1800. The 196 countries have maintained a stable CO2 level for thousands and thousands of years (Ossfindation.USS). The Earth should be cooling right now because this would be its "natural cycle" since the Earth was in its warming period 10,000 years ago and must now be in a slight cooling period (Nasa). However, something happened in the 1800s that changed everything. Instead of being in its "cooling period", Earth is now in its "warming period" (NASA). The reason is what many scientists call global warming, a gradual increase in the overall temperature of Earth's atmosphere generally attributed to the greenhouse effect caused by increasing levels of carbon dioxide and other pollutants. (Oxford Dictionary). In the 1800s, humans created the first factories. The population also increased due to food surpluses, leaving more houses, more fires and factories that released CO2 into the air (Ossfindation.USS). Time passed and it was in 1940 that scientists realized the first major change due to the consequences of global warming (NASA). The temperature has increased by 0.2 degrees (UCAR)! In 1980 the temperature increased by 0.5 degrees (UCAR) and in 2010 it increased by 1.4 degrees (National Geographic). Wake up America! 1.4 degrees is a huge change, it caused sea levels to rise by 4 to 8 inches (National Geographic), it also caused the polar ice caps to shrink at the rate of 9 percent per decade (NRDC) . These changes are not “natural!” These changes are