A hotter earth?

The greenhouse effect is not only a worrying but growing phenomenon affecting our earth’s temperature. As a consequence of the increasing amount of greenhouse gases, mainly carbon dioxide, produced in the last years, the heat balance in the atmosphere has been altered. This increase has been caused mainly by human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels, deforestation, the use of fertilizers in agriculture, decomposition of garbage and the use of refrigerators as well as air conditioning. Those gases in the air work like a glass in a greenhouse, allowing light energy to get in but preventing much of heat energy from escaping. Therefore, the atmosphere becomes irreversibly warmer. This problem, which is often referred as the “enhanced” greenhouse effect, will eventually bring about a radical change in the globe’s temperature balance and lead to global warming.

Emma