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Why have there been so many natural disasters lately?

It’s not global warming because it doesn’t exist, it’s a hoax! look it up.

Here’s some statistics:

http://www.unisdr.org/disaster-statistics/occurrence-trends-century.htm

http://maps.grida.no/go/graphic/trends-in-natural-disasters

I will later explain to why global warming does exist, but I agree with someone above me who quoted a piece of text from your link. We seem to hear more about these disasters because we have more technology that allows us to convey our opinions, new facts, and stories in a matter of seconds.

On to global warming.

We all believe that this is natural because Nature makes it seem like that. We have detached ourselves from Nature to the point where we begin to think that we are no longer a part of the changes that go on [on] our planet.

Granted, the Sun gradually becomes hotter over time. (Please visit the site below to view the life patterns of a star which will explain how a star warms up as it continues throughout it’s life cycle.) However, having said this, the Sun has only reached half its life years, and has yet to warm up to a significant level to change out local weather patterns.

In fact, this process would take millions of years, just as the natural warming, without the help of natural disasters such as raging forest fires (which help remove carbon dioxide from the air), a volcanic eruption (which could possibly block out the sun causing a global cooling as history tells us), etc.

As you may already now, the greenhouse gases contain the following: water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and ozone (a triatomic molecule poisonous to humans). Furthermore, I will explain why each of these contributes to a warmer Earth.

Water Vapor runs in a cycle. Water is absorbed into the air, and turns into water vapor, a known molecule in absorbing heat in the atmosphere, however, all water vapor comes down as rain or snow at some point in its life time both of which cool the earth. This element of global warming can be expunged because it reverse its primary change.

Carbon Dioxide is a molecule exhumed by humans and animals, as well as our transportation and our energy producing companies. Carbon Dioxide is known to transfer visible light but trap heat by absorbing the infrared light emitted by the sun and making it so that the heat finds it difficult to escape. It is similar to a 5 layer blanket in 100 degree F weather. The deforestation of trees, which remove this hazard gas from the atmosphere, including the fact that a dead tree trunk decays and releases stores carbon dioxide also contributes to an increase in carbon dioxide levels. Humans have expanded to the level that we are on every continent including Antarctica. We expunge quite a lot of carbon dioxide, which plants and trees could take care if it was not for the amount of carbon dioxide we release through our cars and factories. Methane follows a similar concept. We use methane as a form of power generation.

Nitrous Oxide is also known as laughing gas, which is used for medical purposes and it a part of the ozone layers. Nitrous Oxide resides in the part of the ozone layer/atmosphere called the Stratosphere. In the Stratosphere, the temperature increases with height, contrary to what altitude normally does. The layer below the Stratosphere is cooler as is the layer above it. This anomaly happens because:

Altitude normally causes the temperature to decreases, however, since the Stratosphere includes nitrous oxide, it causes a dramatic change in the temperature. Nitrous oxide absorbs a dangerous amount of infrared radiation/light. In fact, its absorption rates are 298 times that of carbon dioxide.
Th layers of atmosphere below and above the Stratosphere are cooler, causing a stabilizing effect, but the recent increase in the gas has caused the atmosphere to warm up more than usual. (Visit the next link please.)

The ozone layer is covered in the above topic.

I hope you understand that it isn’t about whether global warming exists or doesn’t but what’s better to do. Pollute our planet or help keep it clean for us, for the future generations, and the animals with which we share our planet. It’s time to open our eyes and stop arguing on a topic that is opinion based and start making smarter choices that will help create a purer Earth.

There is an enormous difference between change and progress!

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