Global Warming: The Effects of Daily Life
Our Earth's ozone layer has become irreversibly damaged due to the amount of greenhouse gases that have been created and emitted over the last several hundred years, which become trapped in the atmosphere. To be more precise, in the mid 1700's the industry became established and large amounts of greenhouse gases were emitted, which began storing away in the Earth's atmosphere--with no where else to escape. In order to function cars, airplanes, factories, and other types of equipment used for labor purposes, fossil fuels were burned to create the power-source in which enabled these modalities to be used--consequently adding to the already rising levels of greenhouse gases. The gases emitted before the industrial revolution, as well as carbon dioxide levels, were able to naturally balance and store away in the Earth's atmosphere without creating any significant or noticeable changes.
The Earth's atmosphere has natural gases--called greenhouse gases--that capture heat in order to keep the Earth's surfaces warm enough to sustain life. Without the 'greenhouse effect', our world would literally become an uninhabitable wasteland covered with ice. The gases that are being released into the Earth's atmosphere are building up beyond the Earth's natural capacity, and can linger in the atmosphere for up to 50 years... or even centuries.
With the added gases in the atmosphere, and the inability to remove them once stored there, the Earth has developed a thick layer around it trapping more heat than needed for the living inhabitants on the planet. The direct result: global temperatures have increased by one degree Fahrenheit over the last century, with most of the unnatural heating increasing within the last two decades. There has been a 31 percent increase in the levels of carbon dioxide--which is also the main contributor to global warming since our pre-industrial times--and with more carbon dioxide in our atmosphere now than has been in the previous 650,000 years. With temperatures continuing to increase, scientists overwhelmingly expect that by the year 2100 storms and droughts will become more severe and violent, and sea levels will rise creating erosions of shore lines--causing abrupt and possibly catastrophic consequences--due to failure to take action when noticeable changes were marked in regards to global warming.
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