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 * //[|Environmental Science: In Context].//** Ed. Brenda Wilmoth Lerner and K. Lee Lerner. Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale, 2009. p366-371. From //Opposing Viewpoints In Context//.
 * Global warming is an overall average of the surface temperature on the Earth.
 * Most scientist now say that its not a "Global Warming" its Global climate change based on the idea that global warming does not affect every area of the world.
 * Scientists heavily believe that the cause of global warming in the last few decades is from us as people burning so much Fossil Fuels.
 * This made the Earth warm because in the atmosphere when Co2 levels increase it throws off the atmospheric concentrations which naturally heats up the atmosphere in which heats the area beneath it..
 * If temperatures continue to increase it could increase the sea-level
 * Obviously this means eventually the Earth would flood and we would all die.
 * China has overtaken the United States as the world’s top emitter of carbon dioxide.

"Warming Up to the Truth: The Real Story About Climate Change." //Environmental Issues: Essential Primary Sources//. Ed. Brenda Lerner and K. Lerner. Detroit: Gale, 2006. 454-458. //Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources//. Web. 3 Nov. 2011. Document URL http://find.galegroup.com/grnr/infomark.do?&contentSet=EBKS&idigest=8187a3c89b0767bedddefc0405757df3&type=retrieve&tabID=T016&prodId=GRNR&docId=CX3456400170&source=gale&userGroupName=pl7053&version=1.0
 * People are being blamed for using fossil fuels instead of natural resources
 * This then creates higher temperatures on the surface and all the main waters.
 * Increase in temperature happened over the last 100 years
 * Carbon monoxide is given off by fossil fuels
 * From 1900 to 1940, the surface warms strongly.
 * From 1940 to about the late 1970s, a slight cooling trend is seen.
 * Then from the late 1970s to the present, warming occurs.
 * After 1940's most of the increase was from human using items giving off Co2
 * Reasons for the increase of temerature is due to the fact that the greenhouse gases emitted attract heat and tend to retain it as well.
 * This is due to the fact that the gases are increasing and become more active in attracting and retaining the heat which continues to keep almost every climate warmer than its used to.
 * Based on scientific studies, early twentieth century warming is almost entirely natural.
 * Yet the large increase after the 1940's, mostly after 1970, was shown and is believed to be from human activity.

Freedman, Bill. "Greenhouse Effect." //Climate Change: In Context//. Ed. Brenda Lerner and K. Lerner. Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale, 2008. 466-472. //Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources//. Web. 3 Nov. 2011. Document URL http://find.galegroup.com/grnr/infomark.do?&contentSet=EBKS&idigest=8187a3c89b0767bedddefc0405757df3&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=GRNR&docId=CX3079000133&source=gale&userGroupName=pl7053&version=1.0
 * The most basic fact behind global warming isnthe fact that its the "blanket" in which surrounds the worlds retains the heat.
 * Therefore making temperatures increase.
 * Main theory behind this is that when greenhouse gases increase, it then creates a thicker blanket in the atmosphere in which retain more heat
 * Which concludes fossil fuels could be concluded as a main culprit for the atmosphere keeping so much heat in.
 * Reasons for usually slow temperature changes is the fact that heat from the sun is brought in fast, whereas heat is realeased (reradiated) back into the atmossphere at a much slower rate becauuse of the greenhouse effect.
 * Without this natural effect, the world would be below temperature of freezing water a all times.(surface temperature)
 * shifts in ranges of plants and animals extinctions are just a few of many things that are happening with the world frim global warming.
 * Earth's atmosphere (7%), clouds (24%), and surface (4%). is what precipitation takes in from the heat.
 * Another 18% of incoming solar radiation is absorbed by gases (16%) and clouds (2%) in Earth's atmosphere.
 * Forty-seven percent of incoming solar radiation reaches Earth's surface and is absorbed.
 * greenhouses are like solar radiation in the sense that its hot and humid and makes the change of balance temperture wise slow and change often.
 * Watar vapor is a big part of global warming because it is the fastest leading gas in and out of the atmosphere.
 * Its amount depends solely on the fact of the amount of the other greenhouse gases.

O'Meara, Molly. "The risks of disrupting climate." //World Watch// Nov.-Dec. 1997: 10+. //Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources//. Web. 8 Nov. 2011. Document URL http://find.galegroup.com/grnr/infomark.do?&contentSet=IAC-Documents&idigest=8187a3c89b0767bedddefc0405757df3&type=retrieve&tabID=T003&prodId=GRNR&docId=A20418667&source=gale&userGroupName=pl7053&version=1.0 http://www.flickr.com/photos/keenpress/4786671903/sizes/l/in/photostream/
 * Glaciers are constantly cracking and melting and shifting.
 * Find info that has happened several times before in fact that they can use them to almost sterotype to not do those such things which could hurt the environment,

5 Paragraphs Global Warming is known throught the world and it affects the world in many ways. For those who dont completley understandwhat global warming is...it is when the surface of the earth heats due to the fact of rising greenhouse gases. This occurs when co2 is realeased from fossil fuels such as gasoline from cars and other man made objects fueled from fossil fuels.