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I noticed a few of the scratchers seem to not know exactly what global warming is, so I though I'd give my knowledge of what it is

though this is always better

global warming is made of multiple parts: pollution (CO2), atmosphere, and the sun light (radiation)

the pollution from cars, reactors, and other things release Carbon Dioxide (CO2) into the air. The CO2 travels into earth's atmosphere and makes it much denser. The more pollution we make the denser the atmosphere becomes. Now when sun light is beamed into earth's atmosphere and usually bounces back out. But with a dense atmosphere it takes much longer for sun light to escape earth, thus heating up the planet more.

example:
_______
/ sun    \           
\______/         /normal path
      \            /                 /
       \ sun light                /global warming path
_____\_________________ /______________________
         \    /\    /\    /\    /              |
          \  /  \  /  \  /  \  /        atmosphere
           \/    \/    \/    \/                |
____________________________________________________

                        earth is below

Due to that the problem factor is the atmosphere we don't have a solution for eliminating global warming however we can slow it down.

Last edited by dingdong (2010-03-21 23:06:18)