Blog #11 Global Issue

For this blog I decided to post about an article on global warming. Ever since it was discovered global warming has been a big issue within society. The article I looked at came from TIME magazine. There were a few interesting facts. One was the level of carbon dioxide in the air. During the last ice age the level was just 180 p.p.m., after the glaciers melted the level went to 280 p.p.m., but now, the total is at a huge 380 p.p.m. the carbon dioxide level directly affects the temperature, and out of the 20 hottest years, 19 occurred after 1980. The other surprising fact I found was the amount of melting ice from Greenland. In last year alone, 53 cubic miles melted away. That amount of ice can be compared to about five times the size of Los Angeles. After reading this article, I decided that I should really be more careful about how I impact the environment because this situation is more serious than interpreted by the average person.