What if I told you in 136 years the world will slowly come to an end? What if I told you that it is all our fault? In the year 2016 going into 2017 there is an extensive problem called climate change, climate change is a change in the global or regional climate patterns. Although it seems as if this problem is on a small scale it will continue to be atrocious, limiting us in every way possible. Despite the turmoil climate change will cause the only way we can limit or stop this problem is changing our ways now. We must change our ways and start to better our mother earth, the only planet we have to thrive on.
Not only do we need to start changing our ways, we need to educate each other, our community, and this world. The only way we are able to do this is by reducing our carbon footprint and speaking out about the problem at hand. In accordance with the article “Why Climate Change is an Education Issue” written by Felipe Calderon, only about 60% of people in my time know about climate change and only 3 out of 10 individuals feel it will affect them. Despite how these individuals feel it will definitely affect everyone, climate
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From your time to mine the temperature has risen 1.7 degrees (Climate Change Explained) and will continue to increase unless we are able to put our earth back to an optimum state. In consonance with the “Climate Change Explained” video the only reason why we started to change our ways now is due to the narcissistic decisions of the government and countries. Libertarians feel that climate change will benefit their mining and coal industries, supporting them financially. Canada and Russia thought that climate change would benefit their economy by making it warmer. They soon realized that it would be a detriment because of those that are less fortunate will travel to their country and become
My parents grew up in small town in Mexico. There was a little river that went through part of the town when they were growing up. Every weekend or so they would go out and would go swimming with their families, it almost became a tradition to go swimming there until they noticed that the river 's water level was becoming smaller and smaller. Today there is no river anymore, instead it 's a road that travels through the town. Every time I visit my family in Mexico it would alway be nice and warm up until this year when I went in December. I remember waking up and getting ready to go to my aunt 's house in clothes for warm weather. As I open the door, the cold air punch me and I saw snowflakes falling down. It 's not supposed to snow in that
Climate change was bound to happen, but we have made it way worse and we have sped up the process by using up fossil fuels, which is creating all kinds of pollutions. Industrialization has caused natural resources to run out and has damaged the freshwater biome. One of the most recognized and influential leaders of our country also agreed that Climate Change needs to be fixed, Theodore Roosevelt said, “The time has come for a change.” Climate Change has affected everyone, you might not have realized it, but even you have been affected! If we all don’t do our part and try to help prevent climate change from going further than it already has, then the world will be over before you know it!
The hottest recorded temperature was in 2005 which matched the temperature in 1998. Twice in the last decade we've had the hottest temperature on average ever recorded throughout history. Coincidence. I think not. The snows of the Kilimanjaro have basically vanished and in a couple decades Glacier National park is going to need a new name because by 2030 there will be no glaciers left in the whole park. The great Greenland icecaps are melting at an alarming pace, and sliding into the sea. Your right, who cares it's not like its happening near us. But by 2100 all our coastal states will look like Venice including ours. You won?t be alive but your children and grandchildren will. The sea level is expected to rise up to 23 inches in the next decade. There has been a 100 percent increase in intensity and duration of hurricanes and tropical storms since 1970 according to a 2005 MIT study. How much more evidence do we need before someone does something about this? For anyone who cares at all about the future, the gradual transformation of our earth is turning into a human-furnace that makes terrorism look like a game of monopoly. Think I'm kidding? By 2050, 15-37% of all plant and animal species could be extinct. Meaning it will be harder for plants to produce photosynthesis. No big right? Wrong. Without photosynthesis, oxygen can?t be made. Most of us in this room will be in our late 60?s by then with children and grandchildren. What does that mean for them? The air will be harder to breath and the temperature of earth will have increased by 2 degrees Fahrenheit. By 2050 up to 38% of water will be unable to hold underwater species because of rising temperature.
Our world is always changing, so is our climate. Some changes are apparent, others not so much. Climate change is an important issue of concern in the twenty-first century. Environment, if it changes at all, evolves so slowly that the difference cannot be seen in a human lifetime (Wearth, 2014). Mostly all scientists predicted that it would take thousands of years for the planet to warm up due to emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels called greenhouse gases. But in the past 200 years, things began to change. The rate and the amount of warming that is happening on this planet are unprecedented. Wearth says, “People did not grasp the prodigious fact that both population and industrialization were exploding in a pattern of exponential
The first part of this essay discusses what the human species has done to deal with the problem of climate change. While some improvements have been made, the problem has not been addressed aggressively enough to stop the damage. What is amazing about this is the denial of so many people that problems exist. If they do realize the risks, they are simply not taking actions to contain the damage.
Climate change is a long-term change in regional or global climate patterns. From the mid twentieth century to now, it has mostly been about a significant increase in average global temperatures. Climate change is a major issue in the world today, and a lot of people feel very differently about the cause of it. The common argument about it is whether climate change is a natural occurrence or if the recent increase in temperatures is because of humans. Climate change is a natural cycle in the Earth’s weather. Before humans started burning fossil fuels, there were still weather cycles on Earth that were as hot or hotter than what it is now. In fact, Earth’s weather now, is on pace with the previous weather patterns in history. Human emitted
Climate change. The two letter word so feared by scientists, so ignored by the average human being. What is it that makes scientists fear this phrase so much? For the concept of “climate change” has been seen throughout the history of the earths existence. For centuries, our climate has fluctuated through increasing and decreasing amounts of atmospheric carbon dioxide and climatic cycles. So what is the big deal? The problem, and the reason why this concept instills fear directly into the core of scientists is the rate at which over the past 1,300 years atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have risen. This unnatural increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide, due to the immense amount of anthropogenic burning of oil and coal, affects the transfer
Thomas Abshire Professor Brazzel English 102 Research Essay #1 25 October 2014 Climate Change: How to stop it “Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.” says Bill Nye. What is climate change? Climate change may refer to a change in average weather conditions, or in the variation of weather around average conditions.
Climate change is a controversial issue that many people have strong opinions about. Climate change is indeed a valid threat to the world because it causes a whole string of consequences like, air pollution, more intense weather conditions, and increased rates in animal extinctions. Humans are the number one cause for climate change. According to https://www.ucsusa.org, Human influence on the climate system is clear, and recent anthropogenic emissions of green-house gases are the highest in history.” Which basically means that human negligence has caused a spike in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
Maria Vidal 104163120 Geography M131 Why Should We Care about Climate Change? Climate change is not only currently detrimental to our planet; it will also be detrimental to our health. In an article titled, Climate Change Challenges and Opportunities for Global Health, author Jonathon A Patz focuses on the correlation of climate change and world health, he believes that it is important for clinicians to better understand this phenomenon in order to educate their patients. Climate change is real and it is happening rapidly, it is important that people are educated and understand the toll this will take on human health worldwide.
Because the Earth is slowly warming up, heat waves, for example, have been occurring more frequently and for longer durations. According to the Climate Communications, “In 2010, 19 countries set new all-time record high temperatures, but not a single country set a new all-time record…” (Overview). Comparing this to Gore’s speech, eighteen countries have experienced all new highs in heat since the European heat wave in 2003. This increase in temperature is due to the shifting of the climates in specific regions as an after effect of global warming.
Climate change is one of the most discussed topics of the twenty-first century. Although this subject is very often on the daily basis of lots of people, most of them do not know much about it. So let us define climate change. People think that climate change is the same thing as global warming. However, global warming only represents one aspect of climate that is temperature. Climate change is any significant change in temperature, precipitation, or a wind pattern that occur over several decades or longer.
The Earth is currently locked in perpetuating spiral of climate change. While the global climate has unarguably been changing since the dawn of it's manifestation, the once steadied ebb and flow of climate change has become increasingly more unpredictable.The risk of rising sea levels, and drought plaguing the fresh water supply, during the time that flooding and sporadic storm conditions turn once fully inhabited regions into uninhabitable death traps. Climate change catalyzed by human's increased production of carbon dioxide, is more noticeable than ever in our recorded history (United States, 2014 National Climate Assessment). Thankfully however, with the changing weather conditions due to carbon related emissions, the change in public opinion about their personalized influence on climate change is also increasing. Kevin Liptak Jethro Mullen, and Tom Cohen note that In reaction to the most recent governmental report on climate change, even the U.S. government believes that a stronger approach needs to be taken to correct our self-generated cataclysm.
In conclusion, global climate change is a very long discussion with many ways to improve the environment, but a long journey to finding a solution. Although we can 't do away with our main sources like power plants, cars, and factories we must continue to find solutions to making our environment safer and suitable to live in. Hopefully in the near future we will have a better understanding of how to address our global climate changes, but for now, we can focus our ideas on preventative ways to not harm ourselves and our
In the modern era, climate change is a variation of weather over a long period of time, and it is the most important and controversial global issue. It is arguable in different positions, especially on science, culture, and politics. These three fields all cause a lot of latent concerns. The science of climate change brings out several harmful phenomenon, such as global warming. With respect to the climate change, the culture of humanity may be changed because the changing climate is the most important key factor of forming today’s human societies. Instead, climate change is now a political issue, which will affect the public attitudes directly. In other words, it means the government tends to review and provide latest information in order to adapt and retard the climate change. Over a long period of time, climate change has been taking place because of human activities that affect the scientific, cultural, and political sides.