AOD #13

To help slow global warming, the U.S. Federal government has created a comprehensive policy that addresses climate change. Its three main objectives are to slow the growth of emissions, strengthen science, technology and institutions, and enhance international cooperation. It also has established major government-wide programs to improve climate change studies and technology. Most of the policies deal with ways of reducing greenhouse gases from being released into the air.

AOD #12

Global warming is “the increase in the average temperature of the Earth's near-surface air and oceans”. This has been happening ever since the mid-twentieth century and will continue to keep happening. Global warming is mainly caused by something called the greenhouse effect. The earth’s atmosphere absorbs solar energy and also radiates solar energy back into space. A lot of the energy that is going back to space is absorbed by “greenhouse” gases in the atmosphere. The greenhouse gases cause the atmosphere to get thicker, which causes more of the solar energy to be reflected towards the earth’s surface, causing the earth to be warmer than it was originally.

AOD #11

The topic I chose to do my blogs on this quarter is global warming. I have done some studying on this subject already for some classes but that was more of a basic overview. I am interested into going into it with more detail and finding out more information about it.