Text 9 全球变暖和它的影响（Text 9 global warming and its effects）.doc

Text 9 全球变暖和它的影响（Text 9 global warming and its effects） Text 9 global warming and its effects The United States spends more than $20 million on fossil fuels each year. The country emits a quarter of the world's greenhouse gases. The most famous of these gases is carbon dioxide, which is released when burning fossil fuels. Global warming is now a global problem for years. Some countries and people claim to be vague about this matter because they don't know or get information about it. Roger, who was an oceanographer, raised the question, because his career didn't get a lot of responses, and he used jokes to criticize different governments. He called global warming "the great geophysical experiment". "The experiment is to add as much carbon dioxide as possible into the atmosphere, plus some other harmful gases, to see what happens." Recently, several countries have been legislating to prevent the planet from overheating. Even with new rules and regulations, the earth continues to warm every year. The minimum effort has been made to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, especially the carbon dioxide produced by burning fossil fuels, so that the speed and intensity of global warming is increasing. The most prominent impact of global warming over the past few years has been on climate change. Many people don't know that global warming is causing and changing weather patterns, and the warming of the planet causes the importance and intensity of weather conditions to increase. The oceans are warmer, and the intensity of hurricanes is stronger, both in strength and in destruction. In addition, many coastal cities and regions have recently experienced flooding, caused by the melting of the polar ice caps. The arctic annual ice sheet is shrinking by 9 per cent a year. Over the past three decades, winter and summer have set a national record of more than ten warmest temperatures. A century of drought and forest fires has been dramatically more dramatic. All of these effects ar