Trips to national parks are an activity that you can enjoy with your family. What if all the beautiful nature and the animals just disappeared? Currently, the Great Plains is having a hard time dealing with the problem. Organisms living there are having to migrate because their habitat is being destroyed. This problem is our fault. However, it can be stopped if we work together and strategize, we can prevent global warming from happening. Right now, the earth's temperature is rising and is warming at a significantly faster rate than previously thought. Actually, we are causing this, human activities are the result of global warming. 

Global warming is becoming a current issue. First, this has made 2021, the earth's sixth hottest year on record. Last year was the 45th year in a row that global temperatures exceeded the average. Since 1976 the world has not seen a year that was colder than average. Currently, “the average land and ocean surface temperature is 1.51 degrees higher than the 20th century average”(Smith 2). Due to all of this, there will be stronger heat waves, regular droughts, greater rainfall, and more violent hurricanes, all fueled by rising global temperatures. For example, tropical storms will have the ability to absorb more energy. To put it in another way, global contains the potential to transform a category 3 storm into a destructive category 4. Because of disasters like these, the U.S. totaled about $145 billion in damage. According to an article, “In the United States alone, there were 20 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters that killed at least 688 people”(Smith 3). Again, the cause of this is global warming, it is having a great influence over many dangerous weather events. For example, the Texas freeze, hurricane Ida, and the outbreak of 70 tornadoes could have all been triggered by the rising temperatures. Director of NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Gavin Schmidt says, “Many of the heat waves, intense rainfalls and flooding events are going to be found to have a contribution from human-induced warming”(Smith 3).

The Covid-19 outbreak accomplished nothing at all to slow global warming’s core cause. “According to Pieter Tans, senior scientist at NOAA’s Global Monitoring Laboratory, without the economic slowdown the 2020 increase would have been the highest on record”(Rice 2). This means that, in 2020 the epidemic fuel economic slowdown was estimated to have a reduction of carbon emissions by 7%. Although carbon emissions did reduce by 7%, it had no long-term impact on climate change. In 2020 temperatures were higher than average all throughout the planet. According to the research, 2020 was the hottest year on record in Europe, with all five of the warmest years happening in 2014. Kate Marvel, a climate scientist at NASA says, “we are completely certain that the increase in CO2 is warming the planet”. When carbon dioxide and harmful emissions accumulate in the atmosphere, they absorb sunlight and radiation from the sun that has reflected off the earth's surface, causing global warming. Usually, this radiation would escape into space, but pollutants, which can linger in the atmosphere for centuries, capture the heat.

In conclusion, human activities are causing global warming. Others may say that global warming is an outcome of cyclical change in the weather. The increase of temperature used to be healthy for the planet because it was warming it. This was an essential to strengthen life on earth. However today, CO2 is increasing too much which is causing the rates to become harmful to the Earth. Of course, this is an important topic to be aware of, it is not something you should ignore. There are many ways this problem can improve, but without people's help the earth will become too unhealthy for people to live on.