These days global warming is a much debated topic, i must say the amount of views that some popular websites containing information about global warming is huge. Be it videos, images or audio clips, there is now a greater amount of awareness on the very topic of global warming and the prevention of it.

Generally as explained by researchers, global warming mainly is caused due to the increase in the amount of carbon monoxide and carbon-di-oxide in our atmosphere, thus increasing the carbon concentration in the atmosphere. As the amount of carbon increases, it has the ability to create a hole in the very ozone layer, a protective layer that is situated high up in the atmosphere. The ozone layer normally acts as a shield to the UV(ultraviolet)radiation that is emitted by the sun. UV rays are quite harmful to the human skin and normally cause the polar ice caps to melt away, which in fact can bring about a rise in the sea level flooding low lying regions. Since the polar ice caps are quite essential in controlling the earth's temperature and the sea levels, the presence of the ozone layer protecting it is useful too. Scientists suggest that the principle cause for the ozone layer to thin down is due to the increase in the amount of carbon emissions and the giant leap in the production of carbon-di-oxide and carbon-monoxide.

The internet has a huge swathe of data/articles on the global warming issue. The articles on the internet discuss the wide range of topics from the thinning down of the ozone layer, rise in sea level to increase in the concentration of carbon in the earth's atmosphere. There are many books written by scientists and researchers on global warming and these can be available at your nearest book store. The books unlike the articles on the internet provide us an in-depth knowledge on the effects of global warming, causes, its after-effects and an in-depth analysis. The books and the internet also specify a way to decrease the global warming by decreasing the carbon footprint.

Saving the world from global warming is our duty, thus reducing the amount of carbon emissions, using other green forms of energy.