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As each day passes Earth is experiencing more global warming, entire ecosystems are destroyed, several acres of the rainforest are wiped out, and pollution is causing harmful effects. Earth is slowly being destroyed, and if people aren’t informed and actions are not taken now, humans will not have a place to live. Human consumption of coal and oil and the successive rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have brought about extraordinary and life-threatening global warming. The Earth is experiencing extreme weather events as a result of this warming. Such weather events are droughts, heat waves, and windstorms. Until the mid-1970s, the planet had been warming by one degree F per century-a rate at which most ecosystems can adapt. But for the last 20 years, Earth has instead been warming by four degrees F per century. The world has warmed enough over the past century to cause glaciers to retreat, and sea levels to rise. Natural ecosystems appear to be the most vulnerable to the harmful effects of climate change. Alpine