Global Warming Effects

Global warming is not a 20th century phenomenon. It has, in fact, occurred in the past more than once, along with periods of extreme cold known as the ice ages. With so much written and reported about global warming, sometimes it's difficult to detect which is fact and which is just part of scientific scaretactics. Here are some facts about global warming that might help: What exactly is global warming? Global warming is...

Increasing temperature of Earth has has put poles for the first time directly attributable to human activities, according to a study. The work, by an international team, is published in the journal Nature Geoscience. In 2007, the UN body on climate change presented strong evidence that the global average temperature increase is largely due to human activities. That contradicts the idea that this was a result of natural processes, such as an inc...

Global Warming is caused by many things. The causes are split up into two groups, man-made or anthropogenic causes, and natural causes. Man-made Causes Pollution is one of the biggest man-made problems. Burning fossil fuels is one thing that causes pollution. Fossil fuels are fuels made of organic matter such as coal, or oil. When fossil fuels are burned they give off a green house gas called CO2. Also mining coal and oil allows methane to esca...