Life On Earth: The Causes And Effects Of Climate Change

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Life on Earth is never the same from year to year, it’s constantly changing and one of those things that is constantly changing is its climate. Each year days of the fall and winter there are “warmest days in history” and the number of these increases each year. One simply cannot say that climate change does not exist with that kind of fact. This problem that is climate change affects human rights and also one’s right to life. This is due to the affect climate change has on people’s everyday lives, for example pollution from coal burning power plants and from cars that release fossil fuels, which is just about every car, into the atmosphere, both resulting in an increase of CO2 which in the long run will increase the average temperature of the Earth. To be able to completely understand what this writer is attempting to provide to the reader one must understand what climate change is, how it’s caused and what the effects of climate change are on earth and with people. First of all one must know what exactly climate change is and how it can be dangerous to life on earth, what causes it, the effects, and what is being done here in the United States to help solve the human rights related issue. So, what is global warming? “Global warming is the unusually rapid increase in Earth’s average surface temperature” (NASA/Ichoku), which has been calculated over the past 100 years or so due to the greenhouse gases being released each year from people burning fossil fuels. Now not all

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