Nine essential facts about one of the world's biggest problems.
The leading cause of global warming is from water vapor, then carbon dioxide emissions, nitrous oxides, and chlorofluorocarbons (used in household appliances like air conditioning).
Chlorofluorocarbons are expected to be eliminated and put out of use by 2030 to help slow down global warming.
The biggest business sectors that are contributing to global warming are the following: Industry, Transportation, Residential, Commercial, Agriculture.
Methane is the second biggest cause of greenhouse warming. Gas from cows is a big contributor to global warming.
A big enough volcano eruption could cool the earth for one or two years because sulfuric acid from the explosion would combine with water vapor to form a “shield” that would reflect some sunlight away from earth. Such an eruption would be quite catastrophic, though.
The coloration of aerosols (miniscule particles in the air) generally changes their relationship with the sun. Lightly colored aerosols reflect light back away from earth (as a white t-shirt) while darker aerosols generally absorb heat (as a hot asphalt road when it is sunny).
Generally, wispy clouds, such as cirrus clouds, trap light and thus warm the atmosphere whilst thick clouds generally reflect sunlight.
Ice/snow cover cools the earth by reflecting sunlight.
Without water vapor's effect on the atmosphere, the earth would be at below freezing temperatures.
These are horrible facts, first you say that the second leading cause of global warming is carbon dioxide, then down in the paper you say that it is methane.
#4 by witheld, Mar 9, 2008
Methane is the second cause of GREENHOUSE WARMING, joe.
Read more ccarefully next time.
#5 by soneone, Mar 25, 2008
Umm I think that you should have a few more facts then 9 and mauybe use smaller words next time
#6 by katlin, Apr 1, 2008
it was usful
#7 by TJ, Apr 4, 2008
Dir Dah Dir global warming is a hoax!
#8 by Dirk, Apr 4, 2008
DDAAAHHHH my names Dirk The big yellow ones the sun! but its kinda hot and it hurts when u look at it for a long time :S TJ i agree with u its a hoax! :0
#9 by rosco, Apr 4, 2008
i have to agree with tj and dirk because this whole global warming thing is like pretty funny because everyone knows the big yellow ball wouldnt hurt a fly except if u look at it then it gets mad and burns your eyes oooowwwiiiiiieeeeeeee
#10 by Tom, Apr 28, 2008
i think if you look at the hard facts you will find there is more evidence suggesting that Global warming is happening. watch the Al Gore documentry i found it very usefull.
#11 by global warming guy, Apr 29, 2008
global warming is happening but yes some people think its not BUT IT IS
#12 by nancy, May 1, 2008
i love it
#13 by ginger, May 5, 2008
it was usles
#14 by Demi, May 15, 2008
it was complicated but useful. i like the volcano one
#15 by dum blonde, May 15, 2008
IN ENGLISH PLZ. I DONT UNDERSTAND SCIENCE! LOL
#16 by anti-disestablishment-terrianism, May 15, 2008
the longest word in the english language
#17 by Amiee, May 16, 2008
Thanks this helped me alot:]
#18 by pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, May 23, 2008
you are wrong 16. my word is longer.
(means black lung disease)
#19 by ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff, May 27, 2008
thanks
#20 by jennie, Jun 17, 2008
your facts dont really help if you dont fully understand all of the words in the paragraph. maybe some people should jst bullet sum facts down quickly then i could read them faster because i wont spend time reading paragraphs.
#21 by R AAWR, Jun 26, 2008
Heres what I think:
CO2 doesen't cause gloabal warming! but I still think we should cut back, CO2 may not cause global warming but GLOBAL WARMING IS HAPPENING BUT its becuase of the sun, i mean how else could JUPITER,PLUTO, MARS, AND SATURN ALL 'HAPPEN' to be getting WARMER??? Soince when do we drive cars on any of those planets? (3050 maybe). I think we should cut back on CO2 anyway because it helps pollute the enviroment, as for the facts up there, CO2 actually follows the climate, about 800 years behind, it doesent change it though so the facts up there ARE CRAP!!!
As for fact 9, WATER PRODUCES MORE CO2 THEN PEOPLE!!! :P
#22 by angel, Jul 7, 2008
plez use smaller words smarty pants
#23 by neelam pandey, Jul 10, 2008
very informative and interesting as well.
#24 by llamarama, Aug 27, 2008
rosco u have it wrong because it's not the sun that's hurting earth it's pollution that's suffocating us!!! If it was the sun that was hurting us then that would mean it's either getting hotter or getting closer and either way there would be a hug explosion sometime and we would all die painfully. and for the person that made the facts: theyre good but some of them don't line up. and rawwr, jupiter pluto mars and saturn are FARTHER AWAY from the sun than earth is so we would warm up first!! oh smart one..
#25 by Rachel Bell phD, Sep 4, 2008
Your facts are not entirely correct, for a start CFCs do not cause global warming, they in fact are the gases which caused a whole to develop in the ozone layer- an entirely different story.
