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Global warming is caused by the greenhouse effect trapping heat in the atmosphere from greenhouse gases. The vast majority of scientific studies and climate scientists agree that global warming poses a serious risk and is primarily human-caused. Evidence of global warming includes rising sea levels, ocean warming, shrinking ice sheets and glaciers, and rising global temperatures that surpassed 1 degree Celsius above pre-industrial levels in 2015. Additional effects are more extreme weather, ocean acidification absorbing over 30% more carbon dioxide since the industrial revolution, and decreasing spring snow cover in the northern hemisphere over the past 50 years. While some critics remain, an overwhelming scientific consensus estimates that around 97% of climate scientists agree that global warming is occurring.

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Persuasive Essay

Global warming is caused by the greenhouse effect trapping heat in the atmosphere from greenhouse gases. The vast majority of scientific studies and climate scientists agree that global warming poses a serious risk and is primarily human-caused. Evidence of global warming includes rising sea levels, ocean warming, shrinking ice sheets and glaciers, and rising global temperatures that surpassed 1 degree Celsius above pre-industrial levels in 2015. Additional effects are more extreme weather, ocean acidification absorbing over 30% more carbon dioxide since the industrial revolution, and decreasing spring snow cover in the northern hemisphere over the past 50 years. While some critics remain, an overwhelming scientific consensus estimates that around 97% of climate scientists agree that global warming is occurring.

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Is global warming real?

Global warming is the increase of average world temperatures as a result


of what is known as the greenhouse effect. As the greenhouse gases build up in
the atmosphere the Earth gets hotter
In the case of global warming, many governmental reports, the media in many
countries, and environmental groups, have stated that there is virtually
unanimous scientific agreement that human-caused global warming is real and
poses a serious concern.
Two reasons why sea levels are rising is because of the warming of sea water
and the melting of land-based ice, such as glaciers and ice sheets. According to
scientists John Church and Neil White, the global sea level rose 17 centimeters
in the last century. Furthermore, the rate in this last decade has been nearly
double compared to the last century. A global rise in temperature has been
obvious for some years now.

In addition, 2015 was the first time the global average temperatures were 1
degree Celsius or more above the 1880-1899 average. This clearly
demonstrates that global warming is a recent phenomenon and should be
considered especially dangerous if it continues at its current rate. Like sea
levels rising from warming, the oceans are also shown to be warming., the
oceans have absorbed the increasing global heat, with the topmost 700 meters
of oceans demonstrating a warming of 0.302 degrees Fahrenheit since 1969.

Even on the surface of oceans, something that is easy to record


scientifically, global warming is more than noticeable. Another happening that is
also easy to detect is the shrinking of ice sheets. Specifically, the Greenland
and Antarctic ice sheets are decreasing in mass at an accelerated rate. Along
with ice sheets, Arctic Sea ice is declining rapidly.

The National Ice & Snow Data Center show that the extent and thickness of
Arctic Sea ice has dissipated quickly over the past several decades. This is a
telltale sign that global warming is at work. Glaciers are also being attacked by
global warming, like other frozen bodies of water. The National Ice & Snow Data
Center presents evidence that glaciers are retreating globally.

Has seen increasing amounts of intense rainfall events. There is no doubt we


still have cold winters, but the extreme high temperatures we continue to
experience worldwide are becoming more and more harsh, which can kill more
people and ravish crop lands. Another dangerous result of global warming that
is present is ocean acidification. The PMEL Carbon Group states that since the
start of the Industrial Revolution, the acidity of surface ocean waters has grown
by approximately 30 percent.
L Sabine, in his article, «The Oceanic Sink for Anthropogenic CO2, » noted that
the amount of carbon dioxide absorbed by the upper layer of the oceans is
growing by near to 2 billion tons per year. This leaves coral reefs and many
other species living in the oceans vulnerable to adverse effects and points to
our own demise as a species in the near future. Now let us rise to the
mountains from the oceans. Spring snow, that beautiful sight we have while
driving through the mountains, is in danger.

Gleaned from the research done by the National Snow and Ice Data Center, we
get to know that satellite observations demonstrate that the amount of spring
snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere has decreased over the past five
decades. Not only does this mean less of a chance to do winter sports, but it
also endangers the habitats that these mountains maintain. Despite all these
factors involved and the evidence shown from highly credible sources, there are
critics of global warming as a scientific fact. One such criticism is that there is
no real consensus that it is real, and that it is something up for discussion.

However, the fact is that according to the authors of seven major climate


consensus studies, about 97% of climate scientists believe in global
warming. Another significant criticism of global warming as a true phenomenon
is that what is happening now is a part of Earth’s geophysical
processes. Though this was only a glimpse at the mountains of evidence
pointing to the fact of global warming, it is difficult to dismiss. From frozen
bodies of water melting more rapidly, to water levels rising and having more
acidity, to global temperatures rising to increasingly-common events of extreme
heat, global warming is showing its signs in a variety ways.

However, there are those that are against global warming as a fact, citing


counter arguments, though most of them are illogical when faced with the
growing mounds of empirical evidence that demonstrate global warming as a
real phenomenon and the strong consensus in favor of it being a fact within the
scientific community. And if you still do not believe in global warming after
reading this essay and after seeing the data proving it, you must admit that
emitting CO2 in the atmosphere cannot be healthy for Earth in the long run, and
that we should do whatever we can to change the way we treat our planet and
ultimately ourselves.
References
1. “Climate Change: How Do We Know?” NASA. NASA, n.d. Web. 20 Dec.
2016.
2. Carrington, Damian. “2016 will be the hottest year on record, UN
says.” The Guardian. Guardian News and Media, 2016. Web. 21 Dec.
2016.
3. Sabine, C. L. “The Oceanic Sink for Anthropogenic CO2.” Science 305.5682
(2004): 367-71. Web.
4. “Climate Science Glossary.” Skeptical Science. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Dec. 2016.

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