Global Warming and the Superstorm

Gardeners often grow their plants in greenhouses because they sustain heat and moisture better than an outdoor environment. Light passes through the glass windows and turns into heat when it hits a solid object. It is unable to exit the greenhouse, however, and remains inside. This is called the greenhouse effect. Earth also has a sort of greenhouse effect, caused by its atmosphere instead of glass panels. Light from the sun enters the atmosphere and is absorbed by the ground, where it is turned into heat. The heat from this process continually accumulates and is becoming quickly dangerous. It is known as global warming.

Global warming occurs naturally over time, however man has helped to speed up the process by producing greenhouse gases. These greenhouse gases, which include gases from fossil fuels, help to trap heat in Earth's atmoshpere, increasing the rate of global warming. Why is that bad? Because, this increased heat is melting the polar ice caps and raising the earth's ocean level. Not only is the ocean level rising, but its temperature would change as well, wreaking weather havoc across the planet.

Such a drastic change to the earth's ocean system could cause what is called the global superstorm. This superstorm could bring blizzard conditions packing sustained winds in excess of 100 miles per hour. Under the interior of the superstorm, death rates could possibly approach 100%. If it were to happen in the summer, massive flooding would devastate low lying areas. If it ignited during the winter, a new ice age would be upon us.

According to scientific data, this global superstorm has happened before; perhaps many times. The fossil record would seem to indicate an occurance of a superstorm between 7 and 10 thousand years ago. This is said to be responsible for the disappearance of entire populations of animals, namely large ones such as the mammoths. The manner in which they became extinct is even more bizarre. Most mammoths found frozen in Siberia carry evidence that the climate was warm at the time. They are fatted and some even had flowers and other foods still in their stomach. But yet it would appear that they froze to death. The temperature must have dropped by 150 degrees (F) with a starting point of 80 degrees (F) in order to have stopped the digestive process. What could have caused such an outrageous drop in temperature?

Scientists speculate that excessive methane gas, which is a potent yet short-lived greenhouse gas, in the atmosphere caused a global warming. This warming effect was like the one which is occuring today. The mammoths died during the violent weather that occured when a brief cooling trend entered the region. This spawned the superstorm.

Environmentalists and scientists alike are actively promoting governmental restrictions on industries that are major contributors to the greenhouse effect. Even if the global superstorm doesn't hit us, many people believe that global warming will effect our planet in a very negative way.

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