Find a topic relevant to physical geography (or environmental science in general

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Find a topic relevant to physical geography (or environmental science in general) and find two or more articles or essays with opposing views. For example, global warming("it's a hoax, "it's going to cause global mayhem"), tax money used to re-build homes destroyed during a hurricane ("people must be helped after a tragedy', "that's what private insurance is for"J. Your essay MUST follow this format (one paragraph for each is suggested): 1. Introduce the articles, including a short summary of each and a link to the article (or reference information if not on the web).2.Evaluate each articles for potential misuse of critical thinking strategies or use of logical fallacies Scientfic Endeavor, Chapter 6) by the authors. 3. Evaluate your own thought processes on the topic with respect to critical thinking strategles and logical fallacies. 4. What is your opinion on the topic? Was your opinion influenced by parts 2 and 3? 5. Can you think of any scientific research that could be done to help clarify the issue? The write up should be well-written and no more than 600 words. Submit it before the deadline. Late assignments will not be accepted and your score will be zero. Your grade (30 points each) will be based on following directions and writing quality

Explanation / Answer

Global warming is a major concern nowadays because of the regular increasing temperature of the whole atmosphere. It is continuously becoming so powerful like a demon. There are many reasons for its ever-increasing nature. The major cause of it is greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, methane, chlorofluorocarbons, etc which are increasing in the environment mainly by the human activities. Some of are an increasing number of automobiles, mushrooming industries, fossil fuels combustion, etc. Such activities emit more CO2 in the atmosphere which enhances the global warmth of Earth. This increasing atmospheric temperature causes glaciers to melt, health disorders to occur and invite so many natural disasters.

There are many causes of the global warming which affects human lives and health in many aspects. The main cause of global warming is the human beings careless activities. Ever increasing human population are demanding more resources to live an easy and healthy life such as land to live and crop cultivation, technological growth for comfort and deal with increasing temperature of the atmosphere, etc. Fossil fuels burning for many reasons are highly responsive to increase global warming. People are realizing well the increase in environmental warmth however never mind their activities which are stimulating the global warming to increase. Continuously they are wasting natural resources and polluting the air, water, and soil.

Increasing inventions of the technologies such as the refrigerator, AC, car/automobiles, electric machines, oven, microwave, washing machine, etc because of the increasing need of human beings for technologies in order to make their life, easy and luxurious. All such resources ultimately contribute to the global warming. Burning fossil fuels in the automobiles emit various greenhouse gases which get collected in the atmosphere and force it to heat. Increasing need of land by human being results in deforestation which contributes to increase in CO2 and decrease in oxygen. It affects the human health, lifestyle, calls diseases, calls natural disasters like hurricanes, heat waves, drought, climate change and so many.

The problem of Global Warming can be controlled by minimizing the emission of greenhouse gases into the environment. The following preventive steps would help save the earth from the harmful effects of Global Warming.

Heating of the environment increases atmospheric temperature (by 3° to 5° C by the year 2100), increases sea level (by 25 meters by the year 2100) and heat, melts glaciers, increases health disorders, changes climate, changes weather, increases annual power of hurricanes, calls natural disasters (floods, heat waves, droughts, tornadoes), lowers down amount and quality of agricultural yields, enhances glacial retreat, reduces summer stream flows, extinctions of various important plants and animals species and so many. There are some other dangerous effects of the global warming which continuously affects the lives of human beings, plants, and animals. Global warming needs to be solved urgently by the active effort of each and every human being living on this planet.

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