| Global warming has many controversial issues, and | | | | countries around the globe have agreed to lower |
| the name may be a misnomer. Global warming | | | | their environmental damage, especially large |
| can also cause global cooling, which can turn many | | | | industrialized developing nations like China and India. |
| areas of the world into cold arid deserts that are | | | | Global warming and greenhouse effect go hand in |
| all but suitable for living. The whole impact of | | | | hand and there is a need to minimize the impact |
| global warming is that it changes the climate in | | | | mankind has on the earth. |
| every area on the face of the earth. The earth | | | | Global warming is not all negative; it does have |
| goes through warming and cooling cycles, and the | | | | some positive effects. The impact of global |
| greenhouse gases and carbon emissions may | | | | warming can also provide benefits as well as |
| speed up the next ice age, causing it to occur | | | | issues. The benefits can not undo the damage |
| much sooner. This is only one of the concerns | | | | being done, though, when fossil fuels pollute the air |
| about global warming. | | | | and release greenhouse gases. The earth is |
| The effects of global warming just on Antarctica | | | | warming up much faster than expected, and the |
| alone have been very visible, and well | | | | effects may be very surprising. Storms may |
| documented by scientists. The rise in ice melting | | | | become much more severe than they are now, |
| from the polar ice cap may end up diluting the | | | | more or less precipitation may fall, temperatures |
| seas, causing a change in both habitat and local | | | | increases or decreases may become common, |
| marine populations. The global warming effect on | | | | and many other problems can result from global |
| Antarctica is what has made skeptics sit up and | | | | warming. |
| pay attention at last. The ice shelf is dissolving | | | | Global warming could have some benefits, but |
| rapidly, this fact has been well documented and | | | | what are those benefits of global warming? These |
| local wildlife and marine populations are at a big | | | | could include more land that can be used for |
| risk of losing their habitats and way of life, due to | | | | farming and living, fewer cold and winter weather |
| warmer temperatures. | | | | related deaths each year, many less emergency |
| Global warming is accelerating thanks to the | | | | room visits because of the ice or treacherous |
| greenhouse effect. When greenhouse gases like | | | | winter conditions, and a whole lot of money |
| carbon emissions are released into the air, they | | | | saved. If every area warmed up just a couple of |
| help to hold the heat down towards the earth and | | | | degrees, every home could save hundreds of |
| do not let it escape. The greenhouse effect is not | | | | dollars a year, and use a lot less fuel for heating. |
| caused by mankind, and this is what makes earth | | | | Using energy conservation methods are the key |
| habitable for all species, but humans have thrown | | | | to getting all the benefits of natural global |
| off the natural balance by releasing large amounts | | | | warming, without having the negative effects, and |
| of greenhouse gases into the air. Regulations like | | | | damaging the earth and the environment in the |
| the Kyoto Protocol can help minimize the level of | | | | process. |
| pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, but not all | | | | |