Global warming is the term used to describe a gradual increase in the average temperature

of the Earth's atmosphere and its oceans, a change that is believed to be permanently
changing the Earth’s climate. There is great debate among many people, and sometimes in
the news, on whether global warming is real (some call it a hoax). But climate scientists
looking at the data and facts agree the planet is warming. While many view the effects of
global warming to be more substantial and more rapidly occurring than others do, the
scientific consensus on climatic changes related to global warming is that the average
temperature of the Earth has risen between 0.4 and 0.8 °C over the past 100 years. The
increased volumes of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases released by the burning
of fossil fuels, land clearing, agriculture, and other human activities, are believed to be the
primary sources of the global warming that has occurred over the past 50 years. Scientists
from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate carrying out global warming research have
recently predicted that average global temperatures could increase between 1.4 and 5.8 °C
by the year 2100. Changes resulting from global warming may include rising sea levels due
to the melting of the polar ice caps, as well as an increase in occurrence and severity of
storms and other severe weather events

Prevention

Global warming is the continuous increase in the atmospheric temperature of earth causing
negative climatic changes. Rise in temperature is caused by the fossil fuels, industries,
agricultural processes, increasing emissions of greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane,
nitrous oxide, etc) because of the burning of wood, solid waste, fossil fuels, etc. In order to
reduce the effect of global warming we should limit our need of agriculture, deforestation, mining,
industrial production, etc. we should do re-plantation of the plants to a great level to reduce the
side effects of deforestation. We should replant the genetically engineered plants and
replenishment of oceans with algae which are efficient to recycle the carbon dioxide in the
atmosphere.

Causes

Global warming is the gradual warming of the earth surface because of the continuous increasing
in the temperature of the atmosphere due to some natural and human made causes. The main
cause of the global warming is the collection of greenhouse gases in the earth atmosphere which
work as a blanket and trap lots of heat causing rise in temperature of the atmosphere. CO2 (also
called carbon dioxide) gas is not good for the atmosphere, if it remains longer in the atmosphere,
it would trap heat extremely which ultimately increase global temperature. High level of CO2
emissions in the atmosphere are caused by the burning of fossil fuels, cars, vehicles, coal-
burning power plants, etc.

EffectsGlobal warming has affected the living of people globally. It has become the reason of
many environmental and social level changes directly and indirectly all through the world. The
emission of greenhouse gases increases the heat on the earth which has created living problem.
According to the scientific consensus, it has been noted that the climate changes are continuous
because of the global warming. Bad human activities are the primary driver of the increasing
effects of the global warming. Many impacts of climate changes which are clearly observed are
glacier retreat, fluctuations in the timing of the seasonal events, earlier flowering of plants,
changes in agricultural productivity, increasing heat, etc.