Climate Change is a rapidly changing thing in our earth's atmosphere. The green house effect is where sunlight enters the atmosphere of earth and can not leave do to buildup of gas from around earth.2 The gases that cover the atmosphere and cover our skies are mostly are Co2, Methane, Nitrous Oxide and flourinated gasses.1 First is Co2, co2 is from most natural things like animals to the 8 billion people on earth. Co2 can also come from wood products to factories using coal or oil.1 Another big greenhouse gas is Methane, methane comes from natural resources like termites or Permafrost to a wildfire in a forest. Methane can also come from human causes like Biomass burning or waste management.1 The third biggest greenhouse gas is No2 or Nitrous Oxide is also like Methane by being man made and natural.1 Man made No2 comes from water treatment, to waste management and nitrogen fertilizer's.1 The main natural N02 comes from Micro Bacteria in rainforest's.1 The last big greenhouse gas is Flourinated gases come from man made products, or processes like, aluminium products to electric powering, and Magnesium products.1 With all these gasses floating in our atmosphere they mix with the radiation from the sun. The energy comes in and reflects off of the earth's surface and gets reflected by the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere (Co2, Methane, No2 and Flourinated gasses).2 These gases have strong heat trapping abilities and also acted as a blanket to help keep the sun's heat trapped on earth.2 These ain't the only things that can help cause climate change, you have natural problems to. You can have Volcanic explosions that launch ash and debris into the air blocking the sun.3 There are super volcanoes all around the world and when all of or one of them explodes they could block the sun and send us into another ice age. You can also have Sunspots that raise earth's solar radiation for a short time period.3 Another natural issue is the earth's axis is tilted so parts of earth get more energy than other parts increasing warmth of the earth. When you add these factors up they increase and help the warm up and change our climate.2 When the earth's axis is tilted it rotates oddly around the the sun giving us the seasons.
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www.epa.gov, Environmental Protection agency, April 20, 2011, 11/20/2011, http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/
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