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====Global Warming: an outbreak ﻿ proper word use? everyone fears. As technology modernizes its supply and demand increases. In reality, the energy it takes to produce such products and to operate them requires a cost that is not payable. In the past decade the arctic has been profoundly effected by the inclining climate from the toxic gasses that are suffocating our atmosphere. As the fuel gases continue to take over earth's air, the planet, and it's organsims will slowly crumble. Thesis statement? ==== ====The drastic changes in climate is beginning to effect places all around the world, especially the Arctic. Studies have shown that the average temperature is rising twice as fast. The Kyoto Protocol claims that "in the 20th century, the worlds average surface temperature rose by approximately 1 degree Farenheit...[leading] the fastest rate in any period over the last 1,000 years." These increases causes ice to get thinner, melt, and even rupture. The Graph continues the arguement by adding that the change in global oceans has also shown an increase in temperature(Source B). With both land and water increasing in temperature the largest block of ice in the Arctic, the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf, that has been around for the past three thousand years has began to crack. Nasa satellites show that the area of permanent ice cover is overall contracting at a rate of nine percent each decade, which will leave earth priceless.==== ====This conflict in the Arctic also effects the native pople, wildlife, and plants. If the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf were to melt, the freshwater and plants that it enclosed will drain into the ocean. Such action will cause animals including Polar Bears, Whales, Walrus', and Seals to change their feeding and migration patters. The drastic change willl make it difficult for the people to hunt. Without the ability to hunt, products such as clothing and food will become scarce. With changes like these, the Arctic is only the launch to a global downfall. Maslin believes there is a "moral dilema [to] global warming" (Source E)==== ====Instead of wasting time by pettiness and blaming other for Global Warming, there needs to be a change. Lomburg states that"[An] American Economist pointed out that when we do the dishes we are aiming to get them //clean// but to dilute the dirt to acceptable degree"which claims this mentality is the innitial problem overall (source D). The burning of fossil fuels to generate electricity and power produces heat trapping gasses that causes global warming. Today there are technologies that reduce the use of unneeded energy including automobiles, power circuits, and even to-go containers. The Nissan Leaf is a newly created vehicle that generates power from a charger instead of gas. It's use of electricity not only reduces the use of power and keeps toxic fuels from entering our atmosphere but it is also afordable for the average american. If people were to stop being lazy and start saving enrgy the chances of preventing global warming will increase. A policiy such as saving energy is a policiy that is a profitable action that will benefit everyone.==== ====The Arctic is only one of many locations that are being effected by the increase in Earth's external temperatures, its people are only ones of thousands that are experiencing life change, and most importantly these events are only few occurances that are becoming permanent. In reality Global Warming is a worldwide issue. Ironically the amount of energy it is taking to allow the downfall of this planet is equivalent to the help it needs to prevent it from being destroyed.