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Argumentative Essay On Climate Change

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Climate change is the global issue of a rising temperature due to human activity. As a result of the rising temperature the polar icebergs are melting. This is putting more water into the ocean and causing sea levels to rise. Because of the higher sea levels many coastal communities are flooding. With Massachusetts being a coastal state this could majorly affect us. Given with the current trends of one eighth of an inch per year (NOAA), a good portion of Massachusetts could be flooded soon. But how soon? And how will it progress over time? This is what we hope to find out with our project. (Kique Ruiz)

Paragraph 1: According to Merriam Webster dictionary, climate change is the changes in earth’s weather patterns. Climate change, however, has come to be known as the warming of the earth's climate due to Co2. Climate change is rather controversial with the question that is the recent spike in temperature and Co2 related, and is this spike caused by humans? Many studies have been done by a multitude of organizations. The majority of these studies all point to one thing. According to skeptical science, “With 60-70 meters of global sea level locked up… Many now seem to converge on 1-2 meters of sea level rise by 2100 (2017)” Also, according to NASA, the global Co2 in the atmosphere is rising at about 2 parts per million per year (NASA 2017). The sea level is rising at the same time that Co2 levels and global temperature is rising. This has all started around when humans

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