Sounding The Alarm Bell Analysis
The topic of my essay is extremely significant to the time we are in now to understand the greenhouse effect and global warming issues that are talked by geologists. Bill McKibben has in his article ‘Sounding the Alarm Bell’, explained the reasons for spreading awareness on global warming. Global warming has been a big issue that has effects on our environment and if not stopped, the results can be catastrophic. Carbon dioxide emissions must be reduced by at least eighty percent if we are to avoid a global warming disaster in the near future.
Bill Mckibben, the author of “Sounding the Alarm Bell” witnesses dozen of men, women and kids ringing the church bell 350 times in a small town of Massachusetts of Sherborn. The number 350 is a very significant and important number on earth. Studies by James Hansen, a NASA scientist show that carbon dioxide …show more content…
According to national geographic, water accounts for eighty percent of the natural greenhouse warming and the other twenty percent is due to gases present in small amount such as carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide. Carbon dioxide is the big absorber of sun rays, it is released through burning of fossil fuels and emissions from cars which increase the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere leading to increase in temperatures. An environmental effect of global warming is high temperatures that lead to changes in water cycle. This explains the fact mentioned by Mc Kibben in his article, ‘the Arctic has melted with stunning speed the last two summers and the pH of the oceans has shifted dramatically just in the last decade’. Increase in temperatures due to rising carbon dioxide levels will cause the ice in Polar Regions to melt off quickly and upset our water cycles, leading to ocean level rising and increase in the level of diseases. In order to stop global warming much has to be
Bill Mckibben, the author of “Sounding the Alarm Bell” witnesses dozen of men, women and kids ringing the church bell 350 times in a small town of Massachusetts of Sherborn. The number 350 is a very significant and important number on earth. Studies by James Hansen, a NASA scientist show that carbon dioxide …show more content…
According to national geographic, water accounts for eighty percent of the natural greenhouse warming and the other twenty percent is due to gases present in small amount such as carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide. Carbon dioxide is the big absorber of sun rays, it is released through burning of fossil fuels and emissions from cars which increase the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere leading to increase in temperatures. An environmental effect of global warming is high temperatures that lead to changes in water cycle. This explains the fact mentioned by Mc Kibben in his article, ‘the Arctic has melted with stunning speed the last two summers and the pH of the oceans has shifted dramatically just in the last decade’. Increase in temperatures due to rising carbon dioxide levels will cause the ice in Polar Regions to melt off quickly and upset our water cycles, leading to ocean level rising and increase in the level of diseases. In order to stop global warming much has to be