Outline

Outline

CO2 Increasing while Temperature rises.

Thesis/Intro: To have a stabilized greenhouse gas concentration in the earth’s atmosphere, there needs to be a reduction in the amount of CO2 usage. With the increasing amounts of CO2 being released into our air, earth’s atmosphere is starting to stay extra warm. This scenario, also known as climate change, is causing glaciers to melt and sea levels to rise.


Paragraph 1: About CO2. Where & who is it coming from?
Topic Sentence: While we continue to emit more amounts of CO2 into our atmosphere, we are slowly destroying earth.
Main Points:
• Carbon dioxide is a heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances; absorbed from the air by plants in photosynthesis
• The more Co2 in the air, the more heat we have.
• 3/4ths of the worlds CO2 emissions come from Industrial and automobile consumption of oil and coal.



Paragraph 2: What happens if temperature increases? What are the affects on earth?
Topic Sentence: By increasing CO2 emissions and causing temperatures to rise…
Main Points:
• Oceans, land masses, and ice caps temperature rises
• Since the oceans are warmer it evaporates more water in to the air causing more powerful sever storms.
• Warmer lands breed mass amounts of insects, that leads to an increase in mosquito-borne diseases, such as malaria, dengue fever, and West Nile virus.
• Warmer ice caps break apart, destroying and threatening the survival of polar life.






Paragraph 3: Keeling Curve
Topic Sentence: I don’t know?
Main Points:
• PPMV (Part Per Million Volume) Number of CO2 molecules per every one million molecules in the air.
• During 1800’s between 275 & 280
• During 2000 it rose to approximately 367 ppmv
• The squiggles on the graph. When it rises it mean it is probably winter time when barely any plants are blooming so therefore they cannot intake much CO2. It lowers during Summer time because a majority of flowers and trees bloom so they intake more CO2.



Paragraph 4: Our Future, if we take no action
Topic Sentence: Although CO2 is a necessity in our earth, action needs to be taken to help balance.
Main Points:
• If carbon emissions continue to raise so will earth’s temperature.
• Do I analyze data for this part?



Paragraph 5: Acid Rain? An affect.