global warming

I think it is over-played to take our minds off the real problems of day to day life. I think it is just a natural cycle of the planet. I believe that focussing on carbon dioxide is an absurd simplification of the problem. I eblieve that we should be more aware of the damage we are doing to the planet through pollution and use of natrual resources - that is far more serious than global warming itself. We need to stop the consumerist scramble for more and more and work towasrds persuading people to be happy with what they have got and making it last rather than buying a new one every few months and throwing the old one away.

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 forever. 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. I could suggest though one of the many solutions for global warming. A new study finds that tropical trees like here in the Philippines are better at combating global warming than trees in higher latitudes. Forests affect the climate in three different ways: by absorbing carbon dioxide (a major greenhouse gas) to help cool the planet; by evaporating water that forms clouds, also helping to keep the planet cooler; and by absorbing sunlight with their dark leaves, which warms the Earth. Tropical forests are like Earth's air conditioner.