Global Warming is an unstable condition of the atmosphere, created by technology that people can do something about. The earth's natural conditions over time swing between ice ages and warm hothouse conditions. The content of the air in vapor form determines if the earth too hot or too cold. The oceans stabilize the atmosphere and act as an absorber of heat while clouds reflect incoming radiation from the sun. When too much exhaust vapor or carbon dioxide gas is present in the oceans or the air the temperature rises.
Hotter temperatures cause changes in the daily weather patterns.
In 1830 Jean Baptiste August Fourier, the great mathematician, hypothesized that industrial burning of coal to fuel manufacturing could increase the exhaust in the air and thus heat the planet. In the 1890 s Svante Arrhenius, a Swedish chemist, confirmed the hypothesis showing that carbon dioxide, a vapor in the air, traps heat and raised the temperature of anything that contains the carbon dioxide gas. Arrhenius speculated that it would take 300 years for the climate to change and that all in all Sweden would become more like France and thus oats and ice would be replaced by wheat and grapes. Over 100 years ago scientists and mathematicians realized that heat generated from air pollution would change the temperatures, weather and rainfall on the earth. Buy energy saving appliances when replacing old stoves, water heaters and refrigerators.