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Global Warming or Solar Global Warming

Charles Johnson

English Comp 101

Professor Kim Hunt

Scientists have concluded that human activities are contributing to global warming by


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adding large amounts of heat-trapping gases to the atmosphere. An unprecedented

consensus among hundreds of the world's leading climate change scientists agree that the

Earth's temperature is rising and that its climate has drastically increased over the lastcentury.

Solar Global Warming

Solar Global Warming is a naturally occurring process that maintains a habitable climateon Earth. In the described picture above, harmful UV Rays and excess Solar Radiation

are reflected and filtered through the Ozone Layer and the Earths atmosphere. The

filtered radiation is then mostly absorbed by the Earth, which maintains the cores

temperature, and then is reflected into the atmosphere. In the atmosphere the naturalgreenhouse gasses absorb and reflect the radiation maintaining the global climate.

Global Warming

Global warming is caused by emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases

that are emitted primarily by the burning of fossil fuels and the clearing of forests. Whathas been overlooked is the effect the Ozone Hole has on natural Solar Global Warming.

Global warming is not a naturally occurring process.

Through human activity, harmful gasses increase greenhouse and deplete Ozone

molecules in the stratosphere where the Earths protective Ozone Layer was naturally

formed over millions of years. The effect of Ozone depletion in the stratospheredecreases the defenses that the Ozone Layer provides. As more Solar Radiation and

harmful UV rays increase, the effect of Global Warming increases. Solar Global Warming

has been an ongoing occurrence ever since.

In contrast to Solar Global Warming, Global Warming from the emissions of carbon

dioxide and other heat trapping gases from the burning of fossil fuels, is a newoccurrence and contingency to be dealt with.

Effecting both Solar Global Warming and Global Warming, ozone (O 3 : 3 oxygen atoms)

occurs naturally in the atmosphere. Ozone is formed throughout the atmosphere in amulti-step chemical processes that requires sunlight. Ultraviolet Rays (UV Rays) and

Solar Radiation are the catalyst for the photo-disassociation (or "splitting") of oxygen

molecules. Once this catalyst occurs, O 2 splits to become 2 individual oxygen atoms.This atomic oxygen quickly combines with other oxygen molecules to form ozone.

Since the 1920's, ground-based instruments have measured ozone, carbon dioxide as wellas other atmospheric gases. Scientists place instruments at locations around the globe to

measure the amount of ultraviolet radiation getting through the atmosphere at each site

and. From these measurements, they calculate the concentration of ozone in the

atmosphere above that location. Scientist also take core samples of glacier ice to study


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atmospheric gasses through out history.

The amount of ozone in the atmosphere is measured by instruments on the ground and

carried aloft in balloons, aircraft, and satellites. Some measurements involve drawing air

into an instrument that contains a system for detecting ozone. Other measurements arebased on ozone's unique absorption of light in the atmosphere. In that case, sunlight or

laser light is carefully measured after passing through a portion of the atmosphere

containing ozone.

Reference

1. An Inconvenient Truth Earth In The Balance, and Assault On Reason 2009 Al Gore )

2. AL GORE Published: February 27, 2010 New York Times We Cant Wish Away Climate Change

3. AIR LIQUIDE 2009 http://encyclopedia.airliquide.com/Encyclopedia.asp?GasID=137

4. The Environment Agency 22 December 2010http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/default.aspx

5. Enviromental Protection Agency http://www.epa.gov/ Jan 2011

6. Ozone Depletion report by Charles Johnson 2006

7. Ozone depletion Research Mark Hunstable 1996

Also:

Antarctica as an Educational Resource, facts retrieved from http://www.antarctica.org.nz/

Atmospheric science: Fixing the sky. By: Schiermeier, Quirin. Nature, 8/13/2009, Vol. 460 Issue 7257,

p792-795, 4p, 4 Color Photographs, 1 Graph; DOI: 10.1038/460792a

Planet Doom. By: Plumer, Bradford. New Republic, 5/13/2010, Vol. 241 Issue 7, p22-25, 4p; Reading

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The Ozone Hole Inc. facts retrieved from, http://www.theozonehole.com

Warming of the Antarctic ice-sheet surface since the 1957 International Geophysical Year. By: Steig, EricJ.; Schneider, David P.; Rutherford, Scott D.; Mann, Michael E.; Comiso, Josefino C.; Shindell, Drew T..

Nature, 1/22/2009, Vol. 457 Issue 7228, p459-462, 4p, 3 Diagrams, 1 Graph; DOI: 10.1038/nature07669

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