Global Warming Overview & Primer

Global warming refers to the increasing temperature of Earth's surface, including land, water and near-surface air. Per most of the scientific community, Earth has warmed significantly since the mid-20th century due to an increase in greenhouse gases that trap heat on Earth.

Physical evidence of global warming is widespread and startlingly significant, and is extensively monitored and catalogued by the worldwide scientific community.

Naturally occurring greenhouse gases have remained fairly constant over the past several hundred years. Greenhouse gases generated by mankind, though, have increased radically, especially in the past 60 years. Major sources of greenhouse gases generated by mankind are...

The effects of global warming are both consequential and widespread, and will continue to be catastrophic. And as a result of global warming processes, extreme weather-related effects will continue to impact Earth...

Solutions to slowing or stopping global warming lie in mankind's ability to slow and stop activities that inject greenhouse gases into Earth's atmosphere, especially the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation, which are the two largest man-generated contributors to the greenhouse effect.