I have thought recently what is causing all of this global warming talk so I decided to do some research. What I found is sad but is happening right now as we speak. Green House Gases (GHG) is pollution that consists of carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. These gases are put into the air from the use of coal, petroleum, natural gas, cement production, and etc. These GHG make the atmosphere like a magnifying glass and when the suns beams come to earth they get trapped and heat things up. Usually if this didn't happen most of the sun's rays would just bounce off the earth's surface.
So the more GHG emitted into the air the more suns rays get trapped and soon the earth gets warmer and warmer. By the time your children get older and start to have kids of their own it might be too late to stop this. This increase of heat would soon melt glaciers and the polar ice caps. If these ice caps were to melt the oceans waters would increase by twenty feet. Also all of that water is fresh water so when it mixes with that much salt water it would mess with the main currents of the world causing catastrophic consequences. Deserts would become tundras and temperate areas would become rainforests.
It would be chaos. Now yes this could be a part of the cycle of earth but why risk it. Transportation fuel is the third biggest contributor to this problem with industrial processes in second and power stations in third. Some countries have signed treaties to stop the use of these fuels by using ethanol and hybrids which by doing just this you could we could cut 5% of emissions which is a lot. Some of these countries are China, Japan, and Russia. But do you know who hasn't signed one of these…U.S.A.
Now I'm not saying that you should stop driving. I just want you to know that if you were to recycle and cut back on your leisure driving you could contribute to help control this problem. Sorry about the jumping from one subject to another but this is my first article so I hope you still enjoy it.
