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Victor Martin
Honors Global Insights
Ms. Tripp
Friday, March 9, 2012
is deflected back into space, and the rest is beamed to the surface and reflects back
to the atmosphere as a slow-moving mass. This type of radiation is called infrared
radiation. The greenhouse effect is extremely important to the world because
without it, Earth would be fifty-four degrees Fahrenheit (thats thirty degrees
Celsius) colder than what it is now. No organism can survive in a world with
temperatures below zero all the time.
Greenhouse effect may be important, but it can also affect the many different
climates around the world. In some places, there has been more carbon dioxide and
heating in the air in some parts. This is occurring because of the human activities
that deals with fossil fuels have been letting off carbon dioxide and other
greenhouse gases into the air, interfering with the greenhouse effect. When this
extra carbon dioxide absorbs additional infrared radiation, produces net heating,
also known as enhanced greenhouse effect. This is another reason why global
warming is happening. The climates will soon get warmer and dryer than ever.
Plants and animals will soon die in the tropical rainforest climate due to major
droughts. The desert climate will be more scorched and really hot. The ice cap
climate will soon become too warm and melt away the glaciers at the north and
south pole. There will be disaster everywhere. However, this will happen in
hundreds or even thousands of years. This is just the beginning of it.