Global warming is caused by human activity according to the scientific consensus. 97% of climate studies from 1991-2011 that expressed a position on the cause of global warming supported the view that it is human-caused. National science academies have called on world leaders to cut global emissions. Multiple lines of evidence show the climate is warming, with most additional energy since 1970 going into ocean warming. Future climate change will differ by region and include rising sea levels and changes in precipitation patterns as well as likely expansion of deserts. Effects on humans include threats to food security and loss of habitat.

1. Global warming, its consequences and possible steps to
be taken.
Name STOICA IONUT and PRICOPIE VICTOR MIEADR IEA
GROUP 8102
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University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Bucharest, Romania
59 Mărăști Blvd, District 1, 011464, Bucharest, Romania
Keywords: green house effect,sea level rise,temperature rising,polar ice cap
melting
INTRODUCTION
CONCLUSIONS
Most scientists agree that humans are contributing to observed climate change. A meta study of academic papers concerning global
warming, published between 1991 and 2011 and accessible from Web of Knowledge, found that among those whose abstracts expressed
a position on the cause of global warming, 97.2% supported the consensus view that it is man made. In an October 2011 paper published
in the International Journal of Public Opinion Research, researchers from George Mason University analyzed the results of a survey of
489 American scientists working in academia, government, and industry. Of those surveyed, 97% agreed that that global temperatures
have risen over the past century and 84% agreed that "human-induced greenhouse warming" is now occurring, only 5% disagreeing that
human activity is a significant cause of global warming. National science academies have called on world leaders for policies to cut global
emissions.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Coordinating teacher: Mihai Daniel Frumușelu REFERENCES
(bibliography)
THE INTERNET-WIKIPEDIA
Global warming and climate change are terms for the observed century-scale rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system
and its related effects.
Multiple lines of scientific evidence show that the climate system is warming. Although the increase of near-surface atmospheric
temperature is the measure of global warming most often reported in the popular press, most of the additional energy stored in the climate
system since 1970 has gone into ocean warming. The remainder has melted ice, and warmed the continents and atmosphere. Many of the
observed changes since the 1950s are unprecedented over decades to millennia. Future climate change and associated impacts will differ
from region to region around the globe. The effects of an increase in global temperature include a rise in sea levels and a change in the
amount and pattern of precipitation, as well as a probable expansion of subtropical deserts.Warming is expected to be strongest in the
Arctic, with the continuing retreat of glaciers, permafrost and sea ice. Other likely changes include more frequent extreme weather events
including heat waves, droughts, heavy rainfall, and heavy snowfall;ocean acidification; and species extinctions due to shifting temperature
regimes. Effects significant to humans include the threat to food security from decreasing crop fyields and the loss of habitat from
inundation. The greenhouse effect is the process by which absorption and emission of infrared radiation by gases in a planet's atmosphere
warm its lower atmosphere and surface. It was proposed by Joseph Fourier in 1824, discovered in 1860 by John Tyndall,was first investigated
quantitatively by Svante Arrhenius in 1896, and was developed in the 1930s through 1960s by Guy Stewart Callendar.refer to caption and
image description Annual world greenhouse gas emissions, in 2010, by sector. refer to caption and image description
Percentage share of global cumulative energy-related CO2 emissions between 1751 and 2012 across different regions.
On Earth, naturally occurring amounts of greenhouse gases have a mean warming effect of about 33 °C (59 °F). Without the Earth's
atmosphere, the Earth's average temperature would be well below the freezing temperature of water. The major greenhouse gases are
water vapor, which causes about 36–70% of the greenhouse effect; carbon dioxide (CO2), which causes 9–26%; methane (CH4), which causes
4–9%; and ozone (O3), which causes 3–7%. Clouds also affect the radiation balance through cloud forcings similar to greenhouse
gases.Human activity since the Industrial Revolution has increased the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, leading to increased
radiative forcing from CO2, methane, tropospheric ozone, CFCs and nitrous oxide.
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