QUESTION: What is the greenhouse effect?
ANSWER: The greenhouse effect is actually a naturally-occurring effect. The greenhouse effect helps regulate the temperature of planet earth's climate.
By trapping heat and holding it in the atmosphere, the greenhouse effect acts like a blanket; surrounding the earth and keeping it at ideal temperatures.
However, too much of a good thing can be bad, and human-related activities have created too many greenhouse gases, too quickly.
This has resulted in the accelerating of the greenhouse effect, warming both the planet and the atmosphere far beyond ideal temperatures, and far too quickly.
Q: How hot is it going to get?
A: Too hot.
The latest report from the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change projects that earth's average surface temperature will increase during the period between 1990░ to 5.8░F (or 1.4░ to 10.4░from 2.5 and 2100).
That's enough of a temperature increase to create some serious environmental consequences.
This includes mass extinction of innumerable plant and animal and animal species.
