Chapter 20: Climate Change + Ozone Depletion3. This article deals with a global issue.
4. Studies have shown that increased levels of greenhouse gases has led to an increase of extreme weather events and may even make them stronger. Francis Zwiers has studied half a centuries rainfall data from locations like the United States, Asia, and Europe. His studies have shown that increased greenhouse gases correlate with heavy precipitation events. Some people would say that more precipitation is a good thing but these kinds of storms would lead to flooding and massive flooding does damage to both cities and agricultural lands, as we have seen in Pakistan and Australia. Zwiers compared the real observed data with climate models that account for the effects of CO2 and other atmosperic greenhouse gases. An intriguing discovery was revealed.
5. These studies show that increased greenhouse gases has more than just one effect on our world. We need to be alot more careful with our emissions of these greenhouse gases, because they will not only increase our climate and melt the ice caps and do other damage but now studies show that they will also increase natural disasters. It seems that we are destroying our environment and don't know that we are doing it. I think we need to raise more awareness about the dangers of high emissions of greenhouse gases and try to do something to prevent all of these potentially dangerous things from happening to our environment because we only have one planet and once we ruin it we can not get it back.
6. Daunting- To overcome with fear; intimidate.
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