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Global warming: No one is safe from the silent killer
Megan Pellegrino
Issue date: 2/1/07 Section: Perspectives
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Each year it seems as though the winters become milder and the summers are unbearable. This thought is not just a figment of your imagination. The problem is known as global warming.
Global warming is the quickest, most realistic way all living races will become extinct. There are signs all around us that global warming exists today, and yet many people are skeptical and feel that the end of the world would be more realistic if a giant meteor hit earth, or if the sun exploded, not the human race putting the whole race of living creatures to extinction.
Scientists in the United States have confirmed beyond doubt that the climate changes and all the other effects of global warming are caused solely by human activity. Many of the actions done on an everyday basis, for example burning coal, gas and oil, are depleting the ozone layer. This makes us completely vulnerable to the sun's powerful UV rays.
At this point you may be skeptical in believing whether global warming is a small myth in order to save the planet and correspond to Earth Day, but here are some facts to back up that global warming is here today and will effect our lives greatly, and maybe even end the lives of the next generation that may never exist.
First, the number of category four and five hurricanes have almost doubled in the past 30 years. I think all of us can relate to this not by looking at the past 30 years, but just in the past year. For example, take the last season of hurricanes. There were five major hurricanes, Dennis, Emily, Katrina, Rita and Wilma, that affected the Gulf and Atlantic coasts alone in the year 2005.
Secondly, the sea levels are rising at a rapid pace. We can see this through the speeds that the ice glaciers are moving. From the high temperatures, the average speed of ice glaciers has more than doubled and the sea levels rose more than 20 feet in the past decade. Now 20 feet may not sound like much to the average person, but when the 20 feet is constantly being doubled and the time it takes to double the number is cut in half, the rise in sea level happens extremely rapidly.
Global warming is the quickest, most realistic way all living races will become extinct. There are signs all around us that global warming exists today, and yet many people are skeptical and feel that the end of the world would be more realistic if a giant meteor hit earth, or if the sun exploded, not the human race putting the whole race of living creatures to extinction.
Scientists in the United States have confirmed beyond doubt that the climate changes and all the other effects of global warming are caused solely by human activity. Many of the actions done on an everyday basis, for example burning coal, gas and oil, are depleting the ozone layer. This makes us completely vulnerable to the sun's powerful UV rays.
At this point you may be skeptical in believing whether global warming is a small myth in order to save the planet and correspond to Earth Day, but here are some facts to back up that global warming is here today and will effect our lives greatly, and maybe even end the lives of the next generation that may never exist.
First, the number of category four and five hurricanes have almost doubled in the past 30 years. I think all of us can relate to this not by looking at the past 30 years, but just in the past year. For example, take the last season of hurricanes. There were five major hurricanes, Dennis, Emily, Katrina, Rita and Wilma, that affected the Gulf and Atlantic coasts alone in the year 2005.
Secondly, the sea levels are rising at a rapid pace. We can see this through the speeds that the ice glaciers are moving. From the high temperatures, the average speed of ice glaciers has more than doubled and the sea levels rose more than 20 feet in the past decade. Now 20 feet may not sound like much to the average person, but when the 20 feet is constantly being doubled and the time it takes to double the number is cut in half, the rise in sea level happens extremely rapidly.
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