Not a Factor in Global Warming

Everyone’s heard of global warming nowadays, if not from Al Gore then from some other source. It’s a fact; carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses are polluting our planet’s atmosphere. There’s too much for the Earth’s natural cooling and filtration systems to handle, leading to a whole avalanche of side-effects. By trapping heat in the Earth’s atmosphere, these emissions have led to worldwide spike in temperature which, in turn, has created a domino-like chain of events.

Thanks to the rising temperature, the icecaps in the Arctic and Antarctic are melting, causing two environmental concerns – the amount of water in the oceans are increasing, and the habitable areas of the ice floes are decreasing. This is bad news for polar bears, penguins, and other arctic animals that can’t swim around forever. The oceans rising also present another problem. What happens when the next tsunami or hurricane hits? Science can only guess, but the figures don’t look too good. And we’re not even going to begin discussing the adverse side-effects that come with inhaling all those greenhouse gasses.

Electricity and energy from fossil fuels is estimated to contribute about one third of the world’s global warming emissions. What about renewable energy? As stated in the second fact, these sources produce less greenhouse gas emissions, if any at all.