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Global warming occurs as greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide trap heat in the atmosphere, enhancing the natural greenhouse effect and warming the planet's surface over time. Human activities like burning fossil fuels have dramatically increased the concentration of greenhouse gases in the air. As more carbon dioxide accumulates, it retains more heat near the Earth's surface and causes the world's temperatures to rise in a phenomenon known as global warming.

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Global warming occurs as greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide trap heat in the atmosphere, enhancing the natural greenhouse effect and warming the planet's surface over time. Human activities like burning fossil fuels have dramatically increased the concentration of greenhouse gases in the air. As more carbon dioxide accumulates, it retains more heat near the Earth's surface and causes the world's temperatures to rise in a phenomenon known as global warming.

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How Does Global Warming Happen?

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Have you ever heard how does global warming happen? Global warming is a phenomenon of
increasing average air temperatures near the earth’s surface. The gradual increase of the earth’s
surface over a long period of time could cause a number of environmental problems, including
the melting of the polar ice caps resulting of ocean levels to rise and flooding coastal areas. Then
how does this threatening phenomenon happen?

The Earth is naturally surrounded by a warming blanket of air, called atmosphere, which helps
maintain temperatures suitable for life. Without it, the Earth would be a frozen and too cold for
living organisms to survive. The atmosphere contains small amounts of carbon dioxide, methane,
nitrous oxide, and other gases, which are known as Greenhouse Gases.

These gases help retain heat to a vital, natural process known as the Greenhouse Effect. This
process happens when sunlight passes through the atmosphere and reaches the earth, some of the
light is reflected by the Earth’s atmosphere and surface, but most light is absorbed. The absorbed
light warms the Earth’s surface. The heated surface then emits infrared light into the atmosphere.
Some infrared radiation escapes to space, but some is absorbed by greenhouse gases and
reradiated toward Earth, warming the Earth’s surface and lower atmosphere.

Due to human activities in burning of large amount of fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and natural
gas for transportation, electricity generation, and industry, the amount of Greenhouse gases in the
atmosphere has dramatically increased over the last three hundred year. For example, levels of
carbon dioxide have risen by 35 percent since 1750. With more greenhouse gases in the mix, the
atmosphere acts like a thickening blanket and traps more heat.

Plants remove carbon dioxide from the air as part of their natural processes and give up oxygen
as a byproduct of photosynthesis. Photosynthetic planktons in the sea do the same. But as forests
are harvested and oceans become polluted, the plants and planktons, as well as their ability to
restore the air, are removed from the ecosystem and the balance of the air chemistry may change.

As the concentration of carbon dioxide increase in the air, the earth’s natural greenhouse effect is
enhanced. Most gases in the air do not slow the emissions of heat back into space from the earth.
However, carbon dioxide in the air holds some of these heats near the earth surface. As carbon
dioxide increases in the atmosphere, its ability to retain heat also increases, resulting in an
increase in the world’s surface temperature, known as Global Warming.

Analyze

Structure How Does Global Warming Happen Linguistic features


Introduction Have you ever heard how does global ● Present tense
warming happen? ● Technical terms
● Action verbs
Opening Global warming is a phenomenon of ● Conjuncion
statement increasing average air temperatures near the ● Technical language
earth’s surface. The gradual increase of the ● Passive voice
earth’s surface over a long period of time
could cause a number of environmental
problems, including the melting of the polar
ice caps resulting of ocean levels to rise and
flooding coastal areas. Then how does this
threatening phenomenon happen?

Explanation The Earth is naturally surrounded by a


Sequence 1 warming blanket of air, called atmosphere,
which helps maintain temperatures suitable
for life. Without it, the Earth would be a
frozen and too cold for living organisms to
survive. The atmosphere contains small
amounts of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous
oxide, and other gases, which are known as
Greenhouse Gases.
Explanation These gases help retain heat to a vital,
Sequence 2 natural process known as the Greenhouse
Effect. This process happens when sunlight
passes through the atmosphere and reaches
the earth, some of the light is reflected by
the Earth’s atmosphere and surface, but
most light is absorbed. The absorbed light
warms the Earth’s surface. The heated
surface then emits infrared light into the
atmosphere. Some infrared radiation
escapes to space, but some is absorbed by
greenhouse gases and reradiated toward
Earth, warming the Earth’s surface and
lower atmosphere.

Explanation Due to human activities in burning of large


Sequence 3 amount of fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and
natural gas for transportation, electricity
generation, and industry, the amount of
Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has
dramatically increased over the last three
hundred year. For example, levels of carbon
dioxide have risen by 35 percent since 1750.
With more greenhouse gases in the mix, the
atmosphere acts like a thickening blanket
and traps more heat.

Explanation Plants remove carbon dioxide from the air


Sequence 4 as part of their natural processes and give up
oxygen as a byproduct of photosynthesis.
Photosynthetic planktons in the sea do the
same. But as forests are harvested and
oceans become polluted, the plants and
planktons, as well as their ability to restore
the air, are removed from the ecosystem and
the balance of the air chemistry may
change.

Conclusion As the concentration of carbon dioxide


increase in the air, the earth’s natural
greenhouse effect is enhanced. Most gases
in the air do not slow the emissions of heat
back into space from the earth. However,
carbon dioxide in the air holds some of
these heats near the earth surface. As carbon
dioxide increases in the atmosphere, its
ability to retain heat also increases, resulting
in an increase in the world’s surface
temperature, known as Global Warming.

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