Today in Class... Environmental Geography. 12/5/16

Today in class we started our new topic on environmental geography. The subtopic that we focused on was climate change also known as, "global warming." We watched a video that explained, using big smart people words, how climate change works. In the video it explains that the earth's temperature keeps rising rising due to this "greenhouse effect." The greenhouse effect is a naturally occurring thing that keeps some heat in the earth so that it doesn't completely freeze from the utterly cold atmosphere in space. Us humans are making is greenhouse effect backfire because of our daily actions. Driving cars, using factories. really anything that involves burning anything, releases unnecessary carbon dioxide and methane into the air, which then gets trapped due to the greenhouse effect, therefore making the earth warmer than usual. Because of the rising temperatures, ice glaciers are melting, which is causing the sea levels to rise. If the heat continues to rise, and the glaciers continue to melt, the sea levels will end up rising so much that areas will become flooded. We will also end up with more frequent hurricanes and servre droughts. Some species, including us, may be unable to adapt and in the long run, many many years from now, may become extinct. Long story short, because of us humans and our ignorance to face the facts, we are ruining our only home and may end up killing ourselves and everything else around us.