Image by livescience.com By Sankalp Patil
Staff Writer 2015 was the warmest year on record, every where in the world, and we are to blame. Most of us have heard the term “global warming”, but nobody really pays attention to it. Or even if they do, they think it means hotter summers and beach time. But what they don’t know is that global warming is the one biggest cause of natural disasters. It is also the leading cause of animal extinctions. This year was one of the worst due to El Nino. That is basically when warm water goes north and the cold water goes south. This causes a bunch of weather issues and also dramatically increased the level of global warming. Global warming is basically when smoke and exhaust from factories, cars, and mainly CO2 goes into the sky and forms a blanket of gas. So, when the sun’s heat goes to Earth, instead of bouncing back into space, the blanket of smoke exhaust and Co2 keeps the heat trapped. This is called the greenhouse effect, and it is the number one reason for animal extinction. In other words Global Warming is the increase of Earth's average surface temperature due to greenhouse gases that collect in the atmosphere like a thickening blanket, trapping the sun's heat and causing the planet to warm up. As novelist Margaret Atwood wrote on Medium, "It's not climate change. It's everything change." Global warming cause the ice caps and any other stray icebergs to melt. Over time, this causes the ocean levels to rise causing low lying islands to be submerged. This also causes the ocean to warm up, and this sometimes is just too much for some species and they go extinct. That’s just one of the many things that global warming changes. Climate scientists on Live Science claim that 2015 was the hottest year on record “by a mile” and it was caused by global warming. The world’s average surface temperature has increased by around 0.6 degrees Celsius over last 100 years claims Discovery. Now that may not sound like a lot, but in the recent years, the temperature has been increasing more than it has over the last 100 years. “Global warming isn't a prediction. It is happening,” states James Hasen. “and we need to do something about it." Comments are closed.
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