suggestions on my 6 page paper on global warming?

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Global warming, widely known as the greenhouse effect which is the warming of the earth’s atmosphere caused by the accumulation of carbon dioxide, methane and many other gases, has received much more attention in the recent years.  Natural occurrences for instance earthquakes, droughts, tornadoes, tsunamis and floods have worsened because of global warming. The economy has to pay a great deal of money to fix damages that are done to an area that are impacted by a disaster. Communities will have also have great impact from families splitting apart, drugs, money, suicides and stress. Human people have a greater risk of health, shortages in food and water supply. Animals in the ocean can not survive because of coral bleaching, rising of ocean levels, the temperature rise of the water and because ice sheets are melting. Animal’s habitats that are on dry land are becoming endangered because their habitats are being destroyed, food is scarce and their migration patterns are interrupted. In the past century, human activity has made global warming change dramatically and by using alternative energy sources, the major issues of global warming could decrease.
Tom Karl, chief scientist at the National Climatic Data Center said, “The term “hundred-year storm” has no meaning anymore. We are now seeing hundred year storms every other year” (Gelbspan 4).  In 1997 we saw major damage across the world. In Bolivia, they had the heaviest rains in thirty years that destroyed over half of their crops. In Boston on the day before Easter is was sixty degrees followed by a snow storm that turned out to be thirty inches total.  Located in Poland and the Czech Republic, had the worst flood seen in a century. Increased amounts of greenhouse gases will lead to frequent severe storms in the United States. When the W2K storms hit Europe, it was labeled as the most violent catastrophe in meteorological records (Smith 2). 
            Global warming is affecting so many plants and animals because of drastic temperature changes.  Scientists have estimated that the Earth’s average surface temperature has risen about 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit from the mid 1800’s to early 2000’s. For animals, migration has been coming earlier in the year when in some places spring comes earlier. Rising temperatures has also forced many animals to move to cooler areas. The faster global warming happens, the more difficult it will be for plants and animals to survive. Since climatic zones are likely to shift by fifty to eighty kilometers each decade, many species of animals and plants are going to have to move so they can survive (Smith 5). 
Warming of the atmosphere caused by greenhouse gases is melting glaciers and causing ocean levels to expand thermally and melt. Over the 1900’s, the average sea level has rose seven inches. Part of the cause is because when water increases, it expands. Rising temperature will also melt ice on land which then flows to the ocean. Studies have been done that show by the end of 2100 the ocean could raise an average on seven inches around the world. Scientists at Britain’s Haley Centre for Climate Change project, “That by late in the coming century, the number of people on the coast subject to flooding each year will rise five million today to one hundred million by 2050 and two hundred million by 2080” (Gelbspan 5). 
Since global warming increases the rate of natural disasters it also increases the danger of death, injury and disease. It also threatens health from shortages and interruptions of food, water, and power. For instance, flooding can pollute drinking water supplies. Major reduction of fresh water can cause food-borne illnesses and parasites. Insect-borne diseases like malaria and dengue fever have been moving from tropical regions. Natural habitats give vital benefits for human health by filtering air and water, and to human wellbeing, by providing opportunities for leisure and trade. 
Many studies imply that in areas in the future it will be difficult to sustain agricultural productivity because of the impacts of global warming. The U.S. Department of Agriculture states that soil moisture losses could take away agriculture opportunities in the Corn Belt and the Southeast (Goetz 2). Most likely farmers are going to have to change the types of crops they grow, their farming methods, and increase the amount of land for farming. Other regions around the world are likely to be worse off when having to adapt the agriculture changes. Many scientists believe that other countries like sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, tropical Latin America, and some Pacific island are going to be helpless. 
The UN Environment predicted that, “W2K events will cause major economic impacts for an insurance industry already burdened with a fourteen fold increase in insured losses in the last four decades” (Smith 3). The federal government has been telling insurance companies that global warming impacts are going to be detrimental for them.

pedro · Accepted Answer

You could mention some of the very unpopular yet courageous actions taken to limit the increasing emissions of pollutants (low sulphur diesel, demands by authorities that available technologies be put into use), but the profit motives of industrial corporations coupled with the disconnect of culture from the land that provides life are a very major obstacle. The promotion of endless debate and argument over personalities and programs to stifle meaningful change is illustrative of the ignorant, dumbed down public in general. Their stupidity will mean suffering for future generations, including yours.

edit: define w2k (extreme weather events) for your readers.

Anonymous · Answer

Global Warming is not true, All it is, is an advertisement that stupid people who think they are helping a good cause give money to that people stuff into there pockets and do no research at all.

Hears a couple of examples why global warming is not true -
- first off the so called scientist state the fact that the ice caps are melting and show you sad pictures of polar bears dieing. Truth be told that the Not so long ago, the Ice caps were recorded 3 inches thicker than ever recorded on history.
- Evidence show that the 1000 years ago the earth was hotter than it is today
- Nasa has stated that the hottest years of the Century were not the 90's or 00's but the 1930's
- Arctic website Crysophere Today reported that Arctic ice volume was 500,000 sq km greater than this time last year.
- Ten years ago Different Scientists were telling people that it was global freezing, it just did not get as much media coverage.

Truth be told its a big scam for you to fork over your money for them telling you a lie. The Earth goes through out cycles that make it get hot and cold. We Just have to live with it a realize we cant change it.

Bête Noire · Answer

If you're no obligated to use 'global warming' i would use 'climate change'; this better describes the effects you mention - harsher/more extreme weather, also there are some theories that the earth may subsequently go into a deep freeze (as shown, albeit a bit exaggerated - in 'the day after tomorrow'). You mention the green house effect but don't explain in detail how this works (e.g harmful gasses such as carbon monoxide and methane breaking down the ozone layer = more sunlight penetration/less sunlight reflection) i'm not sure what you've been asked to write about exactly but this appears to be a big gap to me. You also mention families being torn apart, drugs etc but again, not how this arises (one might wonder, do all natural disasters end in drug abuse). Also you need to make a link between increase natural disasters and climate change.

sorry if you have done some of those things, i only had time to have a quick read. Good luck with the assignment!

NW Jack · Answer

1) "Global warming, widely known as the greenhouse effect"
The "greenhouse effect" is just one factor in determining the earth's temperature. There is no good reason to believe that the greenhouse effect is responsible for the slight warming experienced over the last 30 years.
http://www.oism.org/pproject/s33p36.htm
In fact the warming has been totally within normal variance,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8511670.stm
and part of the trend of generally raising temperature since the end of the last ice age.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Holocene_Temperature_Variations.png
It is not the same thing as "Global Warming", and I have never heard those 2 terms confused like that before.

2) "Natural occurrences for instance earthquakes, droughts, tornadoes, tsunamis and floods have worsened because of global warming."
Wrong on all counts. Here is what the insurance industry had to say about that:
"In the last few decades, the international insurance industry has been confronted with a drastic increase in the scope and frequency of great natural disasters. The trend is primarily attributable to the continuing steady growth of the world population and the increasing concentration of people and economic values in urban areas. An additional factor is the global migration of populations and industries into areas such as coastal regions, which are particularly exposed to natural hazards. The natural hazards themselves, on the other hand, have not yet shown any significant increase."
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/isr/1993/00000018/00000002/art00007

3) "Animals in the ocean can not survive because of coral bleaching"
That does not seem to have happened in the past:
"The role of climate, and especially the temperature component of climate, deserves considerable attention, given current concerns (De’ath et al. 2009, Hoegh-Guldberg et al. 2007). On geologic timescales, there is little evidence for climate change affecting reefs in a linear fashion. Changes in mean global temperature as reconstructed from stable oxygen isotopes and the distribution of nonreef climate-sensitive sediments do not correspond to changes in reef abundance or latitudinal distribution (Kiessling 2001a, 2002). Reports linking reef expansions and declines to climate change (e.g., Cecca et al. 2005, Copper 2002, Johnson et al. 1996) fail to explain why other changes in temperature did not lead to a similar response of reefs and why the reported (fairly modest) temperature changes would have such a dramatic effect."
Kiessling, W. 2009. Geologic and biologic controls on the evolution of reefs. Annual Review of Ecological and Evolutionary Systems 40: 173-192. - page 179
http://www.co2science.org/articles/V13/N12/B1.php
Ocean Acidification does not seem to be a problem for coral reefs either:
Suwa, R., Nakamura, M., Morita, M., Shimada, K., Iguchi, A., Sakai, K. and Suzuki, A. 2010. Effects of acidified seawater on early life stages of scleractinian corals (Genus Acropora). Fisheries Science 76: 93-99.
http://www.co2science.org/articles/V13/N12/B2.php
The coral reefs seem to not be adversely affect by global warming:
Mumby, P.J. and Harborne, A.R. 2010. Marine reserves enhance the recovery of corals on Caribbean reefs. PLoS ONE 5: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008657.
http://www.co2science.org/articles/V13/N13/B1.php

IPCC predictions for 2100 would be a boon for agriculture if they actually happen:
http://www.ipcc.ch/graphics/syr/spm6.jpg
Consider what will happen when the earth does not warm:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over-population

Edit:
You seem to have missed the essence of what the insurance industry said:

"The natural hazards themselves, on the other hand, have not yet shown any significant increase."

Your paper makes a tempest in a teapot. You state the issues correctly, but your facts go against what the research shows, and you tend to make suggestions that are not supported by your own facts, let alone the research. Consider a rewrite.

Shell · Answer

Don't forget the things that affect the earth from Mother Nature too!
One example, natural gases put out by volcanoes (carbon dioxides).
 I found that you changed to too many different subjects that didn't really relate to the main.  What is your main sentence and or thesis!
                                                                                SK

Kimberly · Answer

Abortion. There is a S*** load of info on it and you can take any side and do great. Illegal immigration is also a good one. But it also depends on what type of paper youre doing ie. persuasive, argumentative etc..

studentofthepast · Answer

I would reexamine the evidence on the man made portion of global warming.


http://www.nationscrier.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1:climate-change-natural-or-human-causes&catid=2:current-events

JcL · Answer

Make sure to include that in 2007, Al Gore's movie was found to be riddled with errors by a British Court:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/3310137/Al-Gores-nine-Inconvenient-Untruths.html

In your summary please explain how the data used to "prove GW" can be valid if:

The RUSSIANS CONFIRM UK scientists MANIPULATED DATA to exaggerate global warming
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100020126/climategate-goes-serial-now-the-russians-confirm-that-uk-climate-scientists-manipulated-data-to-exaggerate-global-warming/

The weather stations were moved in China to get higher readings!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/01/dispute-weather-fraud

"i was suppose to write my paper on so u might now believe in global warming but i dont care."
Forget all the FACTS above, you will make a find Global Warming Researcher, you believe!!

Anonymous · Answer

It  will  be  science  fiction  Man  made   Global  warming   or  Climate  change   does  not  cause 
Earthquakes     .   Who  ever  said  it  did   is a  idiot   and   imbecile  .  And it is  a  hoax  for
more   tax  money .

jerry · Answer

is this really what we are teaching in schools these days, god help us

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