1. Explain why the greenhouse effect is necessary but how an enhanced greenhouse effect can harm the planet. 2. Define global warming and explain what has caused the recent trend of warming that the earth is experiencing.
3. Explain why Earth's temperature is directly affected by the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
4. Define carbon sequestration and explain how deep geologic burial of carbon works.
5 Describe the connection between fossil fuel burning, the melting of polar ice, and the rising of global sea levels.

1. The enhanced greenhouse effect disrupts the Earth's climate equilibrium and has led to an increase in the global average surface temperatures.

2. Scientists attribute the global warming trend observed since the mid-20th century to the human expansion of the "greenhouse effect"   1 — warming that results when the atmosphere traps heat radiating from Earth toward space. Certain gases in the atmosphere block heat from escaping.

3. Greenhouse gases absorb some of the energy and trap it in the lower atmosphere. Less heat radiates into space, and Earth is warmer. ... Carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor, and nitrous oxide are naturally present in Earth's atmosphere.

4. Carbon sequestration is the process of capturing and storing atmospheric carbon dioxide. It is one method of reducing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere with the goal of reducing global climate change.

5. As climate change caused by burning fossil fuels drives temperatures higher, the ocean warms, causing it to expand. ... Scientists have found that water draining from melting glaciers and ice sheets in polar and mountain regions is now also contributing to this rise in sea levels.