To prove global warming is real, anyone can look at our Earth today.  Today, the affects of global warming are very prevalent.  Any citizen of the world can see that.  Every morning when I wake up and watch the news, I hear the meteorologist saying there is a new record high temperature for the day.  This has happened increasingly more over the past ten years (Appenzeller & Dimick, n.d.).  Some of these higher temperatures are caused the greenhouse affect, which is a natural system to Earth.  Before the Industrial Revolution, little gases were released into the atmosphere which was less heat for the atmosphere to hold in.  Today, we use gases and fossil fuels for almost everything we do.  Using energy like air conditioners, turning on a light, watching television, using a hair dryer, playing video games, listening to a stereo, washing clothes, or microwaving a meal releases greenhouse gases and adds to the greenhouse affect.  To perform these functions, one must use electricity.  Electricity comes from power plants, and most power plants use coal and oil to make electricity.  Burning coal and oil produces greenhouse gases (Greenhouse Effect, n.d.).  Affects of these rising temperatures are everywhere.  The human race is even being affected.  Higher temperatures can cause heat stress and heat related health problems to people directly.  Indirectly, ecological disturbances, air pollution, changes in food and water supplies, and coastal flooding are all impacts that could potentially affect human health (So What’s the, n.d.).  Proposed legislation to stop these situations from occurring would raise energy and food prices, cost millions of jobs, and severely hurt poor families, while doing nothing to stabilize global temperatures.  This is because the only way to fix these problems is for the people to want to care and to better themselves (Driessen, 2007).  If people would look around they would see how much their environment and all living things in their environment are being affected.  Climate change has been altering the world’s habitats and ecosystems for some time now.  Many climates depend on rainfall, temperature, and soil.  A rapid change in climate like we are experiencing has upset this balance and can seriously endanger many living things.  In the past, climate change has occurred slowly, giving animals’ time to adapt to the new environment of move to a new environment that better suits them.  Now that climate change is happening more rapidly, animals are having a much harder time adapting to these quick changes and are being forced out of their well known habitats (So What’s the, n.d.).  Our climate change has caused water supplies to go short causing animals to move into cities to find water.  One day while on his way home from work, my father was driving through our neighborhood and a turkey flew out in front of him.  Normally there aren’t too many turkeys that find themselves in a suburban neighborhood with so many inhabitants but for some strange reason he was there.  Why would this turkey have traveled so far?  The only answer is changes to his environment most likely caused by global warming.