What is Global Warming?

What is global warming?

While some would call global warming a theory, others would call it a proven set of facts. Opinions differ vehemently. Let us consider global warming to be both a premise that the environment of the world as we know it is slowly, but very surely increasing in overall air and water temperature, and a promise [...]... (Continue reading)

Causes of Global Warming

Let us start our examination of Global warming with a study of its causes. Global warming is an overall state of existence that is the cumulative effect of hundreds of environmental factors. All of these join together in both a linear and random model to show global warming as a chain of events. Most modern attention [...]... (Continue reading)

The Greenhouse Effect

Anyone who has either spent time in a greenhouse for plants or simply gotten into a car on a hot summer day has personally experienced the greenhouse effect. Heat enters an enclosed area and then reflects back and forth building upon itself. While the ambient temperature outside might be 85 degrees Fahrenheit, inside an automobile [...]... (Continue reading)

Global warming as a chain of events

Once again remember we are attempting to define global warming as a chain of events. The first several of these links is an over abundance of solar radiation absorbing gases and other particles floating about in our atmosphere. The next grouping of events concerns what happens when the small percentage of increased heat on our planet’s [...]... (Continue reading)

Primary effects of global warming

The effects of global warming are in some ways less definable than the causes. It seems odd that such huge manifestations of change such as rising sea levels, glacier retreat, and Arctic shrinkage somehow manage to filter down so that when members of western civilization safely tucked away in homes and apartments look at the [...]... (Continue reading)

Secondary effects of global warming

All of the above initial effects of global warming set into motion the following more directly adverse effects. Every human being, animal and plant on planet Earth feels these second tier effects. Decreased crop yields For a short time it was hoped that a byproduct of global warming would be increased yields of agriculture. The obvious conclusion [...]... (Continue reading)

Summation of effects

The effects of global warming are beginning to manifest themselves. While the greatest threat still lies at a point perhaps some fifty years forward, the current problems and predicaments are more than a harbinger. Global warming has already diminished the quality of life for the world’s poorest peoples. Hunger and starvation on the African continent [...]... (Continue reading)