According to former Vice President of the United States Al Gore, global warming is the observed and projected increases

in the average temperature of Earth's atmosphere and oceans. It is a complex phenomenon, and its full-scale impacts are hard to predict far in advance. It is bad because in the most likely scenarios, climate change would cause some kind of regional or continental disruption, like a major crop failure; this disruption would cascade through the worlds tightly connected economic and political systems to produce a global effect. It can cause an economically critical region to exhaust its water reserves, forcing people to leave en masse and precipitating a crisis that reverberates through the world economy. Already the severe weather events that have occurred have had major effects on international politics, commodity markets and the stability of various regions. Millions of people have died or been made homeless or lost their livelihoods as a result of these natural disasters. Global warming is caused by many things. The causes are split up into two groups, man-made and natural causes. One natural cause is a release of methane gas from arctic tundra and wetlands. Methane is a greenhouse gas. A greenhouse gas is a gas that traps heat in the earth's atmosphere. Another natural cause is that the earth goes through a cycle of climate change. Man-made causes probably do the most damage. Pollution is one of the biggest man-made problems. Burning fossil fuels is one thing that causes pollution. Fossil fuels are fuels made of organic matter such as coal, or oil. When fossil fuels are burned they give off a green house gas called CO2. Also mining coal and oil allows methane to escape. When you dig up the fossil fuels you dig up the methane as well. Another major man-made cause of global warming is population. More people mean more food, and more methods of transportation. That means more methane because there will be more burning of fossil fuels, and more agriculture. Another source of methane is manure. Another problem with the increasing population is transportation. More people mean more cars and more cars means more pollution. The main cause of global warming is our treatment of nature There are many evidences that support global warming. Channels through the Canadian Arctic archipelago that were choked with ice at this time of year two decades ago are now expanses of open water or vast patchworks of tiny islands of melting ice. The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet, and this summer its sea ice is melting at a near-record pace. The sun is heating the newly open water, so it will take longer to refreeze this winter, and the resulting thinner ice will melt more easily next summer. Sixteen years ago the arctic ice pack was 6 to 9 feet thick, hard to imagine it's gone away so quickly. Severe drought, massive storms, both in winter and Summer triggering record floods in North America, China with thousands dead and millions homeless and at risk of disease from unsanitary conditions, unclean drinking water and a lack of food and medical supplies and recorded heat waves in the Northeast United States and Russia. The effects of global warming are increase of temperature on the earth and rise of sea levels due to thermal expansion of the ocean, in addition to melting of land ice. Amounts and patterns of precipitation are changing, increasing the frequency, duration, and intensity of other extreme weather events, such as floods, droughts, heat waves, and tornadoes. Water security problems are projected to intensify. Other effects of global warming include lower agricultural yields, affecting food security and exacerbate malnutrition, further glacial retreat, reduced summer stream flows and species extinctions. As a further effect of global warming, diseases like malaria are returning into areas where they have been extinguished earlier. Endemic morbidity and mortality due to diarrheal disease primarily associated with the changes in the hydrological cycle. Climate change is projected to compound the pressures on natural resources and the environment, associated with rapid urbanization, industrialization and economic development. It is more likely that the future of our planet is that global warming will worsen because the carbon dioxide is released to the atmosphere where it remains for 80 to 200 years. This leads to an increasing concentration of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere, which in turn causes the average temperature on Earth to rise. The world population will grow, at the same time more and more developing countries will progress their industrialization and as a result they will cause high CO2 emissions. I look at the presentation as of today, an apparent phenomenon in our planet Earth. The evidences of the effects of global warming showed in the presentation were true and were not a mere exaggeration. It served as a magnifying glass to what our planet Earth looks like at this particular moment. Carbon dioxide and other air pollution that is collecting in the atmosphere like a thickening blanket, trapping the sun's heat and causing the planet to warm up is very alarming yet we do nothing. There is indeed a problem and I can help solve the problem in my own way. I live with the false fantasy that individuals determine the future course of events, not the collective actions of billions of people. It is a mindset which leads to inaction and a refusal to acknowledge that we need to help one another and act collectively if we wish to prevent worse disruptions to our climate, our coastal areas, our economies, and even our food supply. It is in our very own interest to induce fundamental changes in our attitude and behavior towards nature. We should reduce carbon dioxide emissions. We should put existing technologies for building cleaner cars and more modern electricity generators into widespread use. I can increase my reliance on renewable energy sources such as wind, sun and geothermal. And we can manufacture more efficient appliances and phase out the decades-old, coal-burning power plants that generate most of our electricity and replace them with cleaner plants. Modesty and humility, admiration and respect for all life on Earth instead of arrogance and haughtiness. The ultimate global warming solution is to behave as part of a larger whole. It is impossible to get in perpetual harmony with myself and with the environment if I do not limit my negative footprint to an acceptable level.