A Global Warning About Global Warming

In the movie by PBS, “Global Warming: The Signs and the Science” it discusses how our planet is affected by global warming and some potential consequences we will encounter because of the effects of Global Warming. It also describes different strategies that could help reduce greenhouse emissions.

Global warming is hot topic nowadays. Alarmists and scientists fight to make their statements known, but while the alarmists avoid the scientist, non-governmental organizations pass themselves as scientist. They not only give out exaggerated data, they also have the nerve to accuse humans of being the cause of global warming. Also, we cannot be certain that we are being told the truth without knowing exactly what is really going on behind the scenes. We blindly trust those in authority because we think that they have our greater good in mind and that whatever they say must be the truth.

Jessica Ann Olson, argues Al Gore’s points from, An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do about it. Olson plans to use Al Gore’s facts on global warming to support her college essay. Certainty, statistics reflect the impact of our poor choices and the environmental effects.

Adams, R. M., B. Hurd, S. Lenhart, and N. Leary, 1998: Effects of global climate change on agriculture: An interpretative review. Climate Research, 11, 19-30. Web. 19 July 2015. The authors explain how climate is utterly important to the agriculture field. However, climate has been changing these past years, and it has obligated farmers to make drastic adjustments. Numerous amount of economic approaches and key biological issues involved with the consequences of climate change are elaborated throughout this article.

In 2006, former senator Al Gore created an academy award winning documentary on global warming entitled “An Inconvenient Truth” . The movie earned several awards including an academy award for best documentary and gore later received a noble peace prize. The movie discussed several different topics of great concern to global warming; such as permafrost, climbs in temperature, extinction of species, drought, and fatigue to name a few. Four writers in five different articles discussed the three topics of greenhouse gases, climate change, and causes of global warming. These writers are writer and scholar Bill McKibben in “Think Again: Climate Change” and “How Close to catastrophe”; William J. Broad, writer for the New York Times in “From a Rapt audience, a call to cool the hype”; writer for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Kevin O’Brien, in “Global Warming? I won’t be losing any sleep over it”; and Alan Zarembo, staff writer for the the Los Angeles Times, in “Game over on global warming?” All though the articles explain some different topics from one another, only one of them disagree with gore on the causes for global warming being humans, they all agree that there will be impacts to the environment, and all of them believe that greenhouse gases are one of the primary causes for global warming.

Now that you’re paying attention, climate change is happening and it is happening now. The Earth’s temperature is warming, sea levels are rising, and glaciers are melting. Climate change is causing extreme weather such as hurricanes, typhoons, droughts, heatwaves, and the arctic ice is rapidly disappearing. It is a threat to our species, our habitats, and our oceans. About 90% of Americans do not know what global warming is and only about 13% identified global warming correctly (Vox). People need to be more aware of what is happening because it is going to affect everyone in the world. “Many scientists long known for their caution are now saying that warming has reached dire levels, generating feedback loops that will take us perilously close to no point of return.” (Berne [Page #50]). If people continue to do nothing scientist think there will be no going back once it has fully taken effect. Global warming is causing diseases and other health related problems, air pollution, and is causing millions to flee from their homes. People need to do something about this.

Scientists and environmental studies students have been documenting a rise in the melting of glaciers. It noticeable that the snow have been melting a lot earlier than expected every year. The production of greenhouse gases was in balance a long time ago, but that balance has been broken due to the human activity at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. The elevated burning of fossil fuels caused by human activity is the main reason for this balance to break. Plants and oceans cannot handle the huge amount of greenhouse gases that humans have been dumping in the atmosphere. According to The Union of Concerned Scientists, a major group of over two thousand scientists, there has been an increase of more than 30% percent in the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and it is estimated that it will triple by 2100. Carbon dioxide is the most abundant gas liberated in the burning of fossil fuels and also one of the most dangerous gases contibuting to climate change. Carbon dioxide represents about 84 percent of all greenhouse gases emitted by human activities. Carbon dioxide has a property that traps heat, thereby increasing global warming.

Recently, the issue about climate change has been on and off the news headlines. The debate whether if global warming is real or hoax is gradually getting more attention to the public. Global warming is defined as phenomenon that causes global average temperature to rise in a steady rate.While many people speculate that global warming is a temporary issue that won’t be a serious issue after a while, scientific data point out that it could be a big threat to the world and humans are mostly responsible for it. For example since the beginning of the industrial revolution age,many big businesses have indiscriminately exploited the natural resources for their profit. The world needs to acknowledge that global warming

Global warming is a terrifying thing to think about. People try to ignore it because they are afraid of what it will cause. They don’t want to accept what scientists are saying, “Humans are to blame”. I, being a future scientist, also believe that humanity is the cause of global warming. This believe of mine stemmed from a class I took in middle school that put us, students, in the shoes of United Nations members. We had to take sides on issues such as deforestation and the usage of fossil fuels. I was liberated from my ignorance and I learned that we were “killing” our planet and potentially ourselves. Although there is plenty of scientific evidence that confirms that humans are the cause of global warming, some people refuse to accept it. In my mind there was no doubt that global warming was real and that humans were the cause, but I couldn’t wrap my head around the opposing view points of politicians, and governments. As a scientist I want the world to accept global warming and to set out on a path to prevent it. To do this I needed to understand all the viewpoints that people and governments have towards global warming.

So what actually is global warming? Obviously the name explains it; the globe becoming warmer. But what does it mean “to become warmer”? The sun isn’t getting hotter; the world isn’t traveling closer to the sun. Global warming is when rapid moving particles collide more and more with other rapid moving particles and are trapped by the atmosphere’s thick layer of gas molecules. As more heat is trapped, particles that are in earth’s atmosphere collide with each other. As more collisions are present, the average kinetic energy which is the average speed at which the particles collide with one another increases therefore the temperature increases which affects many aspects of life.

We are paying the consequences from past generation’s inability to make the right but hard choices, in order to protect and preserve our environment. The NRDC website lists the top global warming symptoms as melting glaciers, rising sea levels, severe weather patterns, the human health, and wildlife. (Consequences of Global Warming). Drilling in ANWR would cause horrifying situations for the wildlife ecosystem and inescapable affects on life in America and around the world, as we know it. In the National Wildlife Refuge Association’s annual report and recommendations to the US Congress, they revealed the astounding fact that, “The Artic Refuge is the only conservation system unit that protects, in an undisturbed condition, a complete

“It’s a well-kept secret, but 95 percent of the climate models we are told prove the link between human CO2 emissions and catastrophic global warming have been found, after nearly two decades of temperature stasis, to be in error,” writes Maurice Newman, chief business advisor to Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott (Dunn). With this bold declaration, Australia thrust itself onto the international stage where it was widely criticized and condemned by the United Nations and environmental supporters worldwide. Already behind the world in climate change legislation, Australia quickly became the face of global warming denial.

Four decades from now, we do not want to repeat the story in the movie The Age of Stupid, in which a man lives in the devastated future world of 2055. The man looks back to today’s date and asks himself why we did not stop the climate change when we had the chance. However, today global warming is out of control, global temperatures are steadily rising. “The primary cause, a consensus of scientists has said, is the rising emissions of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane” (Stone, 2013). The CO2 stays in the atmosphere for 50 to 100 years, nitrous oxide for 114 years while the methane stay in the atmosphere for at least 12 years. The impact of these greenhouse gases is of an immediate concern as it is increasing and is long lasting so we should not wait any longer to control the human activities that produce these greenhouse gases causing the climate change.

Many people who watch¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬ news daily knows that it often display either social unrest, financial crises, or political struggle such as the Syrian war. One reason why Syrians are engaged in a war is that they are experiencing extreme heat and drought which causes them to be more rebellious and aggressive. The underlying cause of these trouble can be due to global warming. Global warming occurs when carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases trap heat in Earth’s atmosphere because some of the sun’s ray cannot escape. It is a worldwide phenomenon that impacts each and every one of us because it cause irregular climate patterns, increase the sea levels, and decrease human living standards.

Human activities have been identified as the most significant cause of recent climate change; it is often referred to ‘Global Warming’. The main cause of global warming is emission of greenhouse gases .The main source of energy today - coal, gases and oil produce greenhouse gases, in particular carbon dioxide. Nuclear energy can reduce the dependence on fossil fuels. It is used to generate electric power but unlike fossil fuels it does not emit greenhouse gases. Therefore, the best possible solution to limit the emission of greenhouse gases and to control change in climate .The major reasons to challenge the above thesis are reliability and efficiency of nuclear power, low greenhouse gas emissions and low cost electricity production from nuclear energy.