Climate change and Global warming: Who is to blame?

Global warming also has multiple effects on our planet and we all should know some of the catastrophic effects it can have on our planet including glaciers melting and sea levels rising, these effects can also create a multiple number of negative effects themselves.
In the past century global sea levels have risen between 10 and 25cm, creating a global problem and this global problem is growing. As scientist predicts Earths average temperature will keep growing for at least another 100 years. Levels could rise between 15 and 95cm in the year 2100 and they could keep rising for another 400 years plus flooding vast amounts of land in water including major cities and small countries.

The greenhouse effect is what causes are planet to heat up. The greenhouse effect is a result of air pollution. This pollution consists of carbon dioxide, methane, carbon monoxide, CFCs and water vapour. These rising gases rise to the top of Earths atmospheres and create a section in the atmosphere that can be called a global blanket of gas. The blanket reflects a lot of the heat back into the planet, creating the warming effect. A thicker blanket of pollution will cause a greater amount of warming in the atmosphere and causing a greater global warming. Even though a certain amount of pollution is needed to keep the planet at a certain temperature, too little pollution and the planet will be in a global freeze, however currently we have a problem of too much pollution and so this is why we have global warming. The problems we face with a global warming can be harsh. If Earth's temperature rises only a couple of degrees then we face problems such as rising sea levels, less clean air, heat waves, floods, extreme change in weather, stronger hurricanes, droughts, new pests, more mosquito born disease, more extinct species, disruption of habitats and in fact we could easily face EXTINCTION!.....

The impact global warming is having on our planet can easily be linked to the way we humans live. We are expelling huge amounts of greenhouse gases on a daily basis. It was not many centuries ago when we did not pollute the atmosphere with machinery and so in fact it is not very surprising that global warming is becoming a bigger and bigger problem. Many of us look on and believe that Earth is not changing; however this could not be further from the truth as we are actually only at the start of the global warming process and I can assure you it will be a big problem in the future.

Greenhouse gases come from lots of different sources. Some of the gases are man-made and some are natural. The greenhouse gases that are man-made i.e. made by humans are mainly caused by:
- Land use change and forestry, which makes up 24% of gases made by humans
- Transportation, which makes up 17% of the gases made by humans
- Other fuel combustions also take up another 10% of gases made by humans
- Industrial processes, which only makes up 3% of gases made by humans
- Electricity and heat, which makes up a large sum of our pollution at 32%

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have been and are continuously reporting how global warming is a man-made problem and there studies do in fact create a positive correlation between global warming and humans.

The large impact that we can have on our planet in just a short period of time should be enough to kick-start many of us into trying to live greener more healthy lives. Global warming will have a big negative impact on future generations if we do not change the way global warming is increasing and the future generations could even include your children or grandchildren. With global warming around the corner we should try and reduce the amount of pollution we generate. If we all start to reduce our pollution output the global warming levels should be reduced to a much safer level and then the chaotic problems that we will face in the future because of global warming are likely to be decreased.

To some extent global warming is caused by nature itself. Nature can increase global warming in various ways, some natural causes of global warming include:
- Volcano eruptions
-Water vapour caused from Evaporation (mainly from oceans) and Respiration
- Animals creating methane
- The El Niño (warming the ocean water near the pacific equator)
Nature does play a very big role in causing global warming and in fact causes more of it than us humans do. The #1 biggest contributor to global warming is in fact water vapour and this is 99.99% natural. Volcanoes can also emit an extremely high amount of pollution and can cause a huge amount of destruction. This is why lots people including scientists believe that this is just a natural process that cannot be stopped and will happen no matter what.