Global Warming
(Sharmeen Fatmi, Karachi)
Global Warming is a great issue
in our world today. Global warming, in the long run, will have a greater effect
on us than it has as of today. This is due to the Greenhouse gasses like carbon
dioxide and all the pollution around us. This causes the atmosphere to warm up,
harming nature as well as us. Only in this century, the atmosphere has seen an
increase of about 1.1oF. Studies have shown and proven that by 2100, the globe
will heat up by another 10.5oF.
Green house gasses are gasses such as carbon dioxide, vapor, methane… which
affect the atmosphere. This contributes to causing the Greenhouse effect which
is the absorption of the suns radiation when it hits the Earths atmosphere, this
causing the Earth to warm up slowly. This isn’t good for the Earth because with
time all the ice in the poles would melt, causing the level of water to rise and
making the average temperature everywhere increase.
Pollution is another factor to take into account that affects our world today.
Pollution, whether it may be air, water, soil, radioactive or any other type, it
contaminates our environment thus affecting the planet. The usage of gas in
cars, the gasses that are released into the air after something is burned all
these small things lead to pollution therefore global warming.
We are supposed to take care of this planet, but are we doing so? We are not
doing much. The little effort put into recycling or other small things is not
enough. We must make drastic changes, especially with all the gas consumption
for cars or all the fuel smokes from industries that affect our environment.
This must stop now! The rate of global warming is increasing rapidly and we must
slow it down before it is too late. We must take action now and save our world.