Global Warming: The Truth

Global warming, the most extensive factor of our everyday lives, will soon be the biggest reason for the melting of polar-ice caps, the demolishment of the Ozone Layer( which protects us from the sun), and a mounting rate for casualties all over the Earth. What seems like endless sources to its start, global warming has one main cause: Pollution. That we create.

Cars, airplanes, trucks, and SUV’s are all vehicles that emit pollutants-carbon dioxide and several others into the environment. SUV’s and trucks in fact were created for the pure reason of rough-terrain travel. When they are driven in the city(which they normally are), the literally kill the environment and the pollutants that they emit absolutely leave us vulnerable to the Sun. With thousands of flights all over the world per day, planes emit so many chemicals into the atmosphere that inch-by-inch the O.L. is dying away.

The chemicals that we release from our car emissions are mostly methane, Carbon Dioxide, and Water Vapor. These are present in the declining Fossil Fuels: coal, oil, natural gas. 33% of Carbon Dioxide emissions come from cars and the burning of gasoline from the internal-combustion engine. According to the 2000 E.P.A. rankings, the Dodge Durango sports utility car’s emissions were about 800 pounds of Carbon Dioxide in a mere 500 city miles. Carbon Dioxide is also emitted from the burning of coal at several power plants facilities.

Methane has been a growing reason for Global Warming throughout the last century. Methane is about 20 times as effective in trapping heat and falls second to Carbon Dioxide in the most principal greenhouse gas. The atmospheric levels of Methane have grown 145% over the last century-that’s a huge increase. It is derived from sources e.g. rice paddies, bovine flatulence, bog bacteria, and fossil fuels of course. When rice fields flood what happens is that the anaerobic conditions develop within the matter and as the soil decomposes Methane is released into the environment.

Water vapor, though hard to believe, is the most prevalent greenhouse gas on the planet, but its increasing presence is the result of warming caused by carbon dioxide, methane, and other greenhouse gases, thus demoting it as a lesser greenhouse gas. Water Vapor holds about two-thirds-that’s 67%(about)-of all the heat trapped be the greenhouse gases. As the Earth heats up, humidity is able to increase which allows the atmosphere to hold more vapor and causing more heating.