Thursday 21 May 2009

Global Warming Problems and Solutions

Global warming has become a real danger to our planet. It started to affect it in several different ways. These are negative effects that will cause great damage to the earth and will endanger everything living on it and might wipe it out. Global warming effects are already taking action and have damaging the planet but it is nothing compared to what might happen if it keeps going this way. We have to solve the problems that caused this global warming to happen.

The problems that caused global warming to happen are the rapid economic development. One of the major problems is the increase of the carbon emission. The manufactures and individual transportation are one of the major problems of increasing carbon emission in the air which leads to create a green house effect on the earth. [Paragraph.7, Line.1, http://www.tropical-rainforest-animals.com/Global-Warming-Causes.html] This effect gives our planet the ability to absorb and reflect the heat that will cause a great change in climate in many areas specially the frozen areas like the North Pole. [Paragraph.2, Line.16-17, http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/235402/global-warming] If the ice melts in the frozen areas it will cause a huge rise in sea water which will eventually cause floods and destroy the land.

Although global warming is having a serious effect on the planet, there are many solutions that we could use to reduce the effect or erase it completely. Since the biggest problem that caused global warming is the increase of carbon emission, we will need to reduce the carbon emissions in the air. Reducing it can be done by using electronic transportation or public transportation that can take many people in the same time to where they are heading to without releasing huge amount of carbon emission. That solution will greatly reduce the carbon emissions caused by individual transportation users. Another solution that can be done is to make use of the natural energy such as wind and solar energy. [Paragraph.6, Line.1, http://www.ecomall.com/greenshopping/ucsgw.htm] If we use these resources then it will help to reduce the carbon emissions caused by fossil fuel and the likes. Also what people could do individually to help solving global warming problem is to grow trees in their gardens to cover at least the carbon emissions caused by them.

In my opinion, I think that the effects of the rapid development have changed the planet’s climate for the worse and it requires us to take action. It is a problem that we have to face and we need to change our careless lifestyle to fix it. Even though it is a big problem I think everyone including the governments in every country is just talking about this problem more than trying to take serious action. Telling people about the effects and dangers of global warming won’t change anything because people are ready to follow but there is no one to follow, so it will be as if they have never heard of the global warming.



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