Title: How Does Global Warming Happen?

Global warming is a phenomenon of increasing average air temperatures General statement

near theearth’s surface. The gradual increase of the earth’s surface over a long
period of time could cause a number of environmental problems, including the Paragraph: 1
melting of the polar ice caps resulting of ocean levels to rise and flooding coastal
areas. Then how does this threatening phenomenon happen?

The Earth is naturally surrounded by a warming blanket of air, called Sequency of

atmosphere, which helps maintain temperatures suitable for life. Without it, the explanation
Earth would be a frozen and too cold for living organisms to survive. The
atmosphere contains small amounts of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, Paragraph: 2, 3, 4, 5
and other gases, which are known as Greenhouse Gases. and 6

These gases help retain heat to a vital, natural process known as the
Greenhouse Effect. This process happens when sunlight passes through the
atmosphere and reaches the earth, some of the light is reflected by the Earth’s
atmosphere and surface, but most light is absorbed. The absorbed light warms
the Earth’s surface. The heated surface then emits infrared light into the
atmosphere. Some infrared radiation escapes to space, but some is absorbed by
greenhouse gases and reradiated toward Earth, warming the Earth’s surface and
lower atmosphere.

Due to human activities in burning of large amount of fossil fuels such as

coal, oil, and natural gas for transportation, electricity generation, and industry,
the amount of Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has dramatically increased
over the last three hundred year. For example, levels of carbon dioxide have risen
by 35 percent since 1750. With more greenhouse gases in the mix, the
atmosphere acts like a thickening blanket and traps more heat.

Plants remove carbon dioxide from the air as part of their natural
processes and give up oxygen as a byproduct of photosynthesis. Photosynthetic
planktons in the sea do the same. But as forests are harvested and oceans
become polluted, the plants and planktons, as well as their ability to restore the
air, are removed from the ecosystem and the balance of the air chemistry may
change.

As the concentration of carbon dioxide increase in the air, the earth’s

natural greenhouse effect is enhanced. Most gases in the air do not slow the
emissions of heat back into space from the earth. However, carbon dioxide in the
air holds some of these heats near the earth surface. As carbon dioxide increases
in the atmosphere, its ability to retain heat also increases, resulting in an increase
in the world’s surface temperature, known as Global Warming.