Causes Of Climate Change

Climate change is one of today’s most hotly debated topic. Scientists for many decades have made supposed claims that current energy creation and reliance on fossil fuels will lead to inevitable changes to the planet. Today, climate change denial is still a popular to most of the world despite the mounds of evidence to support that it exists. The climate change issue suffers from being mismanaged by various parties through focusing on the wrong issues and the lack of true commitment from the general public, according to Sandra Steingraber.

To understand climate change, one must understand what a climate is. A climate can be defined as “the usual weather of a [particular] place…[to] include patterns of temperature, precipitation, humidity, wind, and seasons” (State of Washington, n.d.), just to name a few. Climate differs from weather as a climate is comprised of the usual conditions of a given place (i.e. is it consistently humid, dry, wet, cool, etc.), while weather is the conditions present at a given place at any one time (i.e. it is raining, snowing, sunny, etc.). Climates are unique to individual places and generally stay the same over time, while weather can change by the day.

Climate change is the long term shift in global climate patterns attributed mainly to the use of fossil fuels. Many people are aware of this issue, however, there has been an increase in the amount of people who deny climate change. 23 percent of Americans (compared to last year’s 16 percent) believe that climate change is not a problem (Atkin). To conclude that people do not accept cli­mate change because they do not under­stand it or need to be educated about it, is reasonable. However, I believe that it isn’t skepticism driving this denial. Rather, it is the phenomenon of reaffirming one’s identity. Instead of analyzing the evidence, it is intentionally interpreted in such a way as to maintain a pre-existing belief.

These last two election cycles have demonstrated the importance of climate change in relation to politics and the american people. What is unfortunate is that what seems to be a very crucial and real problem in our human survival, according to scientists, is being debated by people who do not have the scientific credentials to even discuss the science behind the reality of climate change. Those behind the skeptics, have funded a successful campaign against the reality of the facts and have introduce doubt into the sciences.

Even though there is evidence proving that the increasing danger of climate change and global warming is a threat to all life, anti-believers argue that although 2014 was deemed the hottest year on record, the year saw record snow and cold in all four hemispheres. Additionally, oceans are rising much less than predicted. In 2005, Al Gore predicted that oceans would rise 20 feet by 2100. However, 80% of the tide gauges show less rise than the official “global average”. In fact, many tide gauges show no rise in sea level, and almost none show any acceleration over the past 20 years (Top Ten Reasons). These statistics accurately represent how torn many are on the subject of climate change. Although there are great points to be made on each side, it is always better to be safe than sorry, and the fight against climate change, believe or not, should be in the back of one’s mind at all

Organized Climate Change Denial by Dunlap and McCright (2011) introduces this rationale and gives a face to this denial. They present the idea of a “denial machine”. This machine is made of various different actors including conservative media, fossil fuel industries, and various front groups—these will be discussed in greater detail within the paper. Essentially, the motivations of the various cogs (actors) vary from economic to ideological to personal, yet overall they rally around shared opposition to “governmental regulatory efforts to ameliorate climate change, such as restrictions to carbon emissions.” (source) A large factor in governmental regulatory efforts is public opinion and, not coincidentally, there were significant declines in public belief of global warming in 2009 and 2010. This spread

Climate change and the effect it has had on global warming has been a scientific subject discussed for the last 30 years; however, only recently has it became a highly debated issue in world politics and pop culture. In fact, according to United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), climate change is one of only a few topics that many countries across the world have agreed upon as a potential future cataclysmic issue which must be discussed by world leaders who should also address it with their citizens. The vast majority of scientists are not only

According to The Framework Convention on Climate Change, “[climate change is] a change of climate that is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere, and that is in addition to natural climate variability over comparable time periods” (Pielke 31). Many climate change deniers like to focus on the latter portion of this definition, claiming that the warming changes currently being experienced throughout earth’s climate are a naturally occurring phenomenon, and that the earth goes through periods of

Climate Change links: https://www.epa.gov/climatechange/climate-change-basic-information http://climate.nasa.gov/effects/ http://climate.nasa.gov/causes/ http://climate.nasa.gov/ http://climate.nasa.gov/evidence Greenhouse effect: The greenhouse effect is the biggest cause of climate change The greenhouse effect has water vapor,nitrous oxide,methane,and carbon dioxide. Water vapor is the biggest greenhouse gas.

In our world today, one of our biggest issues is climate change. Climate change is caused by releasing greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane. The atmosphere traps the gases and too much of these gases can cause the atmosphere to heat up. About 97% of scientists agree that global warming is human-caused (“Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet: News”). These scientists also have found evidence to prove that climate change is human-caused. Yet, there are still some people who think that climate change is just all a big hoax or it was made up by scientists. Climate change is real and a reason why some people deny it is because it can benefit them.

The warming trend the we are observing right now is particularly important because it’s proven to be mainly human-induced and proceeds at a rate that is unprecedented in the past 1,300 years (IPCC, 2007) There is a strong, credible amount of evidence, based on numerous lines of research, which suggests that climate is changing and that these changes are in large part due to human activities. Certain scientific conclusions have been so scrupulously studied and tested, and supported by so many independent scientists that the likelihood of them to be proven wrong is incredibly small (The National Academies Press, 2010) However, even though we have a scientific consensus on climate change and its cause, the political response to a global warming problem has been strongly impacted by climate change denial, hindering efforts to prevent climate change and adapt to the warming climate (Dunlap, 2013) There are groups of people who reject this

To this day, climate change has been one of the major concerns of many researchers, scientists, and environmentalists. Many believe that there is a dramatic increase in the average temperature of the earth’s atmosphere, a problem that is referred to as ‘global warming’. Even though global warming is a worldwide issue, the actual effort put into understanding its risk is very minimal. Haydn Washington and John Cook claim that often climate change denial arguments are used to hide the obvious truth about global warming causing misunderstanding among people about the issue (43). Global warming affects the environment in various ways causing untimely disasters, an unbalanced ecosystem, and costly health impacts which in turn

Many businesses, industrial factories, and vehicles produce massive amounts of natural gases that affect the world in many ways. These gas particles that move rapidly and constantly collide with the atmosphere. This causes the air on Earth to contain higher kinetic energy due to the fact that more gas particles from the natural gases are colliding with the air particles. The higher kinetic energy results in higher temperature and heating of Earth’s surface. The heating of the Earth’s surface causes many of the world problems that we have today. As more and more factories and industries produce gases that pollute the world, they also increase the effects of global warming. Gas particles from these natural gases move rapidly throughout the atmosphere. Since these gases are still near the surface of the Earth, these gas particles collide much more and become more rapid creating more kinetic energy. If there is more kinetic energy in these gas particles, there is an increase in temperature. Around the world there are so many products and resources that require the release of gases. These gases, once released, increase the temperature in the atmosphere to be able to melt the ice at the north and south poles. The gas particles are able to spread out throughout the Earth’s atmosphere to trap the heat which increases the temperature of the Earth’s surface allowing the ice to melt.

Climate change in today’s world has become of great concern due to its effects in the environment. Globally, climate change has greatly influenced ecosystems and the existence of organisms. This is further extending its effects to regional areas such as Kenya, whose ecosystem is not spared by the changing climate. Despite having natural causes, anthropogenic factors are widely increasing and causing climate change undisputed. Therefore, human activities are the main contributors of climate change leading to stress and ecosystem strain, to continue providing for its services. In this report I discuss summary of global climate change and regional focus on causes of climate change in Kenya, its effects in ecosystem especially on the natural ecosystems, current measures to curb the effects and the perception of the future ecosystem of the country.

In the present day and age, a current phenomena with increasing effects on the Earth is climate change. As a result, massive resource shortages, natural disasters, an increased likelihood of epidemics and disease outbreaks, as well as negative impacts on a wide range of socioeconomic factors are expected (Podesta, J., Ogden, P., 2008). These effects have demonstrated and are continually expected to have the strongest impact on the disadvantaged in developing regions, namely, sub-Saharan African countries and South Asia, in the future, despite a majority of the responsibility being credited to developed nations. In fact, between the years of 1850 and 2000, 30 percent of carbon emissions are credited to the United States, 27 percent is credited to countries in the European Union, and 7 percent to China (Macintyre, J., 2009).