Problems facing the environment today are vast and diverse. Destruction of the world's rain forests, the depletion of the ozone layer, air pollution, water pollution, chemical pollution and global warming are just some of the problems that will reach dangerous proportions in the coming decades.

The three aspects of global warming I will discuss are:

What is global warming? What are the effects of global warming? What are we doing to reduce global warming?

Global warming is a greenhouse effect on the Earth. Solar energy is transmitted to earth by the sun. Excess energy should reradiate back into space through the earth's atmosphere. But, because of increased carbon dioxide and methane in the earth because of emissions from polluters such as factories and cars, excess energy is trapped in the earth's atmosphere and causes a warming of the ea

Last October Vice President Al Gore and the White House hosted a conference on Global Climate change. The CEO's of large polluting companies where invited to participate in the discussions to reduce emissions into the earth's atmosphere. The CEO of Sun Oil Company said that the entire oil industry was striving to cut down emissions from their refineries. Automakers at the conference said that they were engineering the cars of the future to have fewer and fewer emissions. As individuals you and I can do something to help too. In this country alone we release about 40,000 pounds of carbon dioxide per person each year. If we can reduce energy use enough to lower greenhouse gas emissions by about 2% a year, in ten years we will "lose" about 7000 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions per person.

We can save energy by putting off lights in empty rooms, making fewer trips in our cars, installing environment friendly appliances in our houses. Whenever you save energy--or us

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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)