Impact of Global Warming on Economic Development
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Impact of Global Warming on Economic Development
Global Warming, the general increase in the earth's near-surface air and ocean temperatures, remains a pressing issue in a society that has expanded its industrial use since the mid-twentieth century. Everyone born this century, in one form or another, has been exposed to the effects of global warming. The fact is that global warming, in its smallest stages, is a natural occurrence. Everyday gases such as carbon dioxide are released to warm the earth, allowing it to be a place that can be inhabited by all living things. However once the human element became higher in population, the warming of the earth was easier to identify. Humans needed to heat their homes, use gases to cook their foods, and burn fuel to drive their cars among other things. Instead of doing this naturally, electricity, gases, and aerosols were created to make human lives easier. Global warming has and will continue to have staggering effects on the world's economy if not controlled.
People have always talked about the weather, but in the 1930's the talk took an unusual turn. Old folks began to insist that the weather truly wasn't what it used to be. The daunting blizzards they remembered from their childhoods back in the 1890's, the freezing of lakes in the early fall, all that had ended. Meteorologists scrutinized their records ad confirmed it: a warming trend was underway. (Weart, page 1). Since then people have become more and more aware of the changing climates in their home town. Towns that people have lived in for 50+ years were experiencing abnormalities in the climate they thought they knew. Winters were getting milder and coming later, summers were getting hotter, and scientists didn't know where to begin. Honestly, though, back then they worried very little about the strange climate changes they were experiencing. With longer hotter warm seasons farmers had the opportunity to stretch out their crop production longer. Codfish could...
Global Warming, the general increase in the earth's near-surface air and ocean temperatures, remains a pressing issue in a society that has expanded its industrial use since the mid-twentieth century. Everyone born this century, in one form or another, has been exposed to the effects of global warming. The fact is that global warming, in its smallest stages, is a natural occurrence. Everyday gases such as carbon dioxide are released to warm the earth, allowing it to be a place that can be inhabited by all living things. However once the human element became higher in population, the warming of the earth was easier to identify. Humans needed to heat their homes, use gases to cook their foods, and burn fuel to drive their cars among other things. Instead of doing this naturally, electricity, gases, and aerosols were created to make human lives easier. Global warming has and will continue to have staggering effects on the world's economy if not controlled.
People have always talked about the weather, but in the 1930's the talk took an unusual turn. Old folks began to insist that the weather truly wasn't what it used to be. The daunting blizzards they remembered from their childhoods back in the 1890's, the freezing of lakes in the early fall, all that had ended. Meteorologists scrutinized their records ad confirmed it: a warming trend was underway. (Weart, page 1). Since then people have become more and more aware of the changing climates in their home town. Towns that people have lived in for 50+ years were experiencing abnormalities in the climate they thought they knew. Winters were getting milder and coming later, summers were getting hotter, and scientists didn't know where to begin. Honestly, though, back then they worried very little about the strange climate changes they were experiencing. With longer hotter warm seasons farmers had the opportunity to stretch out their crop production longer. Codfish could...