Causes and Effects of Climate Change Throughout the middle of the twentieth century, until now, there has been debate over the existence of climate change. Climate change is the increase of the earth’s inclusive temperature of the atmosphere, and the side effects caused by rising temperatures. Climate change is caused by many reasons: burning of fossil fuels, agriculture, landfills, and deforestation. Climate change is mainly caused by greenhouse gases and humans. The effects of climate change
As a result of climate change, natural disaster has increased extremely, especially droughts and floods around the world. In the past several years, it can be seen that various news concerned critical climate variability and extreme weather. For instance, the United States Department of Agriculture (2013) pointed out that the US agricultural land suffered from drought about 80 percent in 2012, while BBC (2015) reported that one of four districts in Myanmar, which were warned of flooding caused by
Climate change and the impact it will have on the Earth are a real and increasing cause of concern. Rising sea levels and sea temperatures, increases in the frequency of extreme weather events and increased acidity in the ocean are some of the things that will have a devastating impact on human agriculture. Unless something is done to change these things, lesser developed countries; many and most of which are majority Islamic, will face food shortages, disease and famine, resulting in people displacement
Climate is a general weather condition in an area during a long period of time. An example that can be used to visualize what climate actually is can be New York’s climate, which is hot and humid over the summertime and mild during the winter. Because of many human activities, which harm the environment, rates of climate change have risen. Climate change is the pattern of change that Earth’s climate experiences over several years. Though climate change may occur through natural instances, it is
debates about the pros and cons of climate change and what are the causes and effects of climate change. There are those who argue that the rising levels of atmospheric greenhouse gases in our environment are as a direct result of human activities. Some activities that are at the top of the list include but are not limited to the burning of fossil fuels, the cutting down of our forest, these activities are causing significant and increasingly severe climate changes which include global warming. Global
Climate Change: Causes and Effects Student’s Name: Institutional Affiliation: Climate Change: Causes and Effects According to Adger (2010), the combined effect of climate change and limitations of resources is serving as a threat to the sustainability of the current social-economic systems and is poised to affect our way of life. Climatic change is more than global warming. The rise in temperatures is but part of the broader changes leading to extreme temperatures, drought, flooding, storms
Climate Change Climate change is caused by human activity. This climate change in turn, causes hurricanes. The hurricanes will destroy the human population main resources. This will lower people into having less important resources such as: food, shelter, and water. Having less resources could lead to poverty, which is known in developing countries such as: India, Philippines, and Haiti (Weeks 56). There are also changes in the oceans that are being affected. This change occurring could lead to
The climate change phenomenon refers to seasonal changes over a long period with respect to the growing accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Climate change can also be a change in the weather of a particular region or location. According to NASA, there is a difference between climate and weather. Weather is defined as the short-term changes in temperature, clouds, humidity, precipitation and wind in a particular region; while, climate of a region is the weather averaged over a year
(Nakaya). The year 1850 was well into the industrial era, making it very likely that humans are the ones causing climate change.. Climate is the general weather conditions of an area over a long period of time. Many things in the world rely on a stable climate, and it could all be ruined because of climate change. It is important today that everyone in the world learns about the effect climate change because ice is melting, animal species are being affected, and more extreme weather patterns are going to
Climate change is an issue that is becoming more and more evident in today’s society. “Climate change is a variation in the unusual weather found in a place.’’ According to NASA researchers; People who study earth have noticed the Earth is getting warmer. “Earth’s temperature has increased by 1 degree Fahrenheit in the last one hundred years. This may not seem like much, but small changes in the Earth’s temperature can have big effects.” (NASA). After many researches, scientist have come to believe