Global Warming

Global warming is sometimes refereed to as the greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect is the absorption of energy radiated from the Earth’s surface by carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere, causing the atmosphere to become warmer. The greenhouse effect is what is causing the temperature on the Earth to rise, and it is creating many problems that will begin to occur in the near future. For the last 10,000 years, the Earth’s climate has been extraordinarily beneficial to mankind. “Humans have prospered tremendously well under a benign atmosphere,” (Bates 28).

Today, however, many changes are taking place. People are conducting an inadvertent global experiment by changing the face of the entire planet. The human race is destroying the ozone layer, which allows life to exist on the Earth’s surface. All of these activities are unfavorably altering the composition of the biosphere and the Earth’s heat balance. If the population does not slow down