Toxic Air Pollution Today We Face A Major Threat

Toxic Air Pollution Today we face a major threat: global warming. People polluting the air constantly get so blinded by their own greed that they do not tend to realize what they have created. Humans have the biggest contribution to global warming, and the dangers will only get worse if nothing gets done. Our various toxic activities, such as working at power plants, drilling up natural gases and oil, and deforestation all emit greenhouse gases into the air, and because of these omissions large bodies of ice and oceans, the wildlife, and people s health will continue to get harmed extremely. Earth’s temperature will and have always increased for millions of years. In the past, the Earth’s temperature has changed due to natural causes;†¦show more content†¦Global warming tends to get ignored in today s society, which is why it has become a larger threat. Although many environmental movements pushed to better the environment, they have yet made any significant changes. We continue to witness our climate get torn apart due to harmful gas emissions and nothing will change if we sit and do nothing. The environment have become a huge target for greenhouse gases. Land ice, such as glaciers and icebergs, existing in different continents, have fallen victim to the toxic gases polluting the atmosphere. When greenhouse gases trap in heat, it affects colder locations that cannot sustain the higher temperatures. The warmth created by the gases causes the bodies of ice within those regions to melt. Scientist have observed that the gases have led to a massive decrease of ice in Antarctica and Greenland. As reported by the National Snow and Ice Data Center,they found that in Greenland â€Å"from 1979 to 2006, summer melt on the ice sheet increased by 30 percent, reaching a new record in 2007† (Quick Facts on Ice Sheets 2). In addition, â€Å"Greenland ice loss doubled between 1996 and 2005† (Global Climate Change 1). Antarctic have not faced as much effect compared to Greenland, but â€Å"in 2012, Arctic summer sea ice shrank to the lowest extent on record† and th ey still continue to slowly lose ice at a pace of â€Å"13.4 percent per decade†(1). Greenhouse gases also Toxic Air Pollution Today We Face A Major Threat Toxic Air Pollution Today we face a major threat: global warming. People polluting the air constantly get so blinded by their own greed that they do not tend to realize what they have created. Humans have the biggest contribution to global warming, and the dangers will only get worse if nothing gets done. Our various toxic activities, such as working at power plants, drilling up natural gases and oil, and deforestation all emit greenhouse gases into the air, and because of these omissions large bodies of ice and oceans, the wildlife, and people s health will continue to get harmed extremely. Earth’s temperature will and have always increased for millions of years. In the past, the Earth’s temperature has changed due to natural†¦show more content†¦Global warming tends to get ignored in today s society, which is why it has become a larger threat. Although many environmental movements pushed to better the environment, they have yet made any significant changes. We continue to witness our climate get torn apart due to harmful gas emissions and nothing will change if we sit and do nothing. The environment has become a huge target for greenhouse gases. Land ice, such as glaciers and icebergs, existing in different continents, have fallen victim to the toxic gases polluting the atmosphere. When greenhouse gases trap in heat, it affects colder locations that cannot sustain the higher temperatures. The warmth created by the gases causes the bodies of ice within those regions to melt. Scientist has observed that the gases have led to a massive decrease of ice in Antarctica and Greenland. As reported by the National Snow and Ice Data Center, they found that in Greenland â€Å"from 1979 to 2006, summer melt on the ice sheet increased by 30 percent, reaching a new record in 2007† (Quick Facts on Ice Sheets 2). In addition, â€Å"Greenland ice loss doubled between 1996 and 2005† (Global Climate Change 1). Antarctic has not faced as much effect compared to Greenland, but â€Å"in 2012, Arctic summer sea ice shrank to the lowest extent on record† and they still continue to slowly lose ice at a pace of â€Å"13.4 percent per decade†(Global Climate Change 1).