Planet Earth is gradually warming up. Climate change came faster than any researcher or expert could have predicted. The effects of global warming and climate change is already making an impact on the world. Temperatures have risen by about 2.6 Fahrenheit. Ice glaciers and ice sheets around the world are melting at a quick pace. In fact, many scientists and experts wonder if it is too late to save our planet from climate change. Global warming needs to be stopped, as it is altering Earth’s climate, including its oceans, atmosphere, ice, and animals.
Global warming is the increase in the temperature of the Earth’s atmosphere. In the recent years, Earth has already begun seeing the effects of global warming. Ice sheets and glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica have already begun melting at a rapid pace. Both ice sheets lose more than one hundred gigatons every year. If those ice sheets continue melting, sea levels will inevitably rise even more. Sea levels rise about one or two millimeters each year, while the Earth is getting even warmer. When ice melts, it adds water into oceans, causing the them to rise. This can lead to flooding, and risks the many homes and lives. As if this issue was not pressing enough, there is more damage that global warming can cause to the Earth.
Many experts predict that in the next couple decades, temperature on Earth could increase by eight degrees Fahrenheit. This is called climate change. Climate change can cause more severe weather conditions such as heat waves, floods, and droughts. These not only cause many deaths each year, but also costs tons of money to fix. A hotter atmosphere can change wet areas to dry, cold areas to hot, and vice verse. A hotter atmosphere is also a reason ice around the world is melting at such a quick pace, causing higher sea levels. A warmer planet can, and already has costed people their lives, money, homes, and more.
Researchers are constantly wondering whether it is too late to save the planet. Ice is melting all around the world, temperatures are rising along with the sea, and animals are dying. Experts suggest that the main cause of global warming is humans. Carbon pollution, burnt fossil fuels, chopping down forests, are all influences of people on Earth. Cars release carbon dioxide, which contributes to global warming. The Earth’s climate is hotter than ever before. Researches suggest that humans should be more energy efficient, and care more about the environment. Humans can resort to solar powered items, and walking instead of driving. Humans can also stop chopping down trees. Trees are the habitat for hundreds of species. By making small changes, humans can not only save the lives of many species, but lower temperatures and sea levels. If humans do not want their home to begin melting, they need to make a change.