Climate Change Accuracy

Climate change is not a new concept. It has been mostly referred to as global warming in the past. As much as people would like to file this issue away as something to deal with at a later date, it simply cannot wait. This problem we face is costing us billions of dollars, forests and wildlife are being eliminated, and people are dying. Starting to sound like a big deal, right? Future generations will be affected the most. People who do not even exist will have to pay for what we, all people, have done to this earth. To begin to make changes, one must realize the severity of the issue. Bill Mckibben, author of “Recalculating the Climate Math,” conveys that “We’ve already raised the world’s temperature by one degree—enough to melt almost half the ice in the Arctic, kill off huge swaths of the world’s coral, and unleash lethal floods and drought. July and August tied for the hottest months ever recorded on our planet, and scientists think they were almost certainly the hottest in the history of human civilization” (Page 3 of 5). Global climate change is a serious problem because it increases natural disasters and is the cause of extreme weather.

As Bill Mckibben, a well-known environmentalist said, “ Global warming is not just a scientific topic-at root, beyond all the practical implications, it’s a moral questions. Do we care enough about people elsewhere in the world, especially poor people, not to fundamentally destabilize their physical lives (Mckibben, 703)? When we chose to participate in global warming we are admitting that we don’t care about our living space nor the lives of people living in third world countries. Not all people are able to buy food from supermarkets so when floods like the one in Bangladesh happen due to global warming we are not only destroying their homes but also their food supply as well. There are everyday solutions to global warming such as not littering, turning off electronics when they are not being used, and walking instead of driving when going short distances that can help keep Earth healthier and more sustainable for not only us but for future generations.

Climate change has been a subject of discussion in the media for many years, supported with the use of arguments against oil polluting the environment and extreme scare tactics of Polar ice caps flooding civilians backyards. The issue has been ignored by the majority of lay people as seeming too complicated, and with all the conflicting information in the media in the past, who can blame them? However, scientifically, climate change and what perpetrates it is fairly simple to understand and society as a whole is beginning to come to a clear consensus on climate change. Thanks in part to more readily available forms of media and information, people have become cognizant of the fact that climate change is a legitimate problem which requires immediate amelioration. While this may seem melodramatic, society is realizing that climate change is an issue which can no longer be denied if the human race wishes to continue.

Evangelical Environmentalists are also focused on educating other Christians on climate change. While many Christian’s may be under the impression that global warming is a myth created by the government to help them gain more control and turn the country into a police state, Evangelical Environmentalists have used the words in the Bible to educate other Christians about the importance of caring for the environment and slowing global warming. Out of all American citizens, 63 percent believe that climate change is happening. Out of all American’s, only 51 percent of Christians believe that there is climate change occurring and approximately 27 percent of Christians do not believe in global warming whatsoever. Some Christians believe that the signs of climate change are actually signs of the Rapture and Christ returning, These signs include flooding on earth, and forest fires. While the number of Christians who believe that global warming is occurring is low, Evangelical Environmentalists are focused on educating other Christians on environmental issues and reminding them that the Bible says that it is their job to care for the

Do you want your child to have a higher risk of skin cancer or other terrible diseases? Do you want your child to never be able to play outside with all their friends? Nobody wants their child to have an unhealthy life or be sad because they have no friends to play with. Everyone wants to hope for their child to have a happy and healthy life. Humans not thinking about how the world’s climate change is dramatically changing does not make the climate not change. There are many scientist that have proven that climate change is happening and it has been happening for many, many years. Understanding what is happening

With the rise of calamitous news regarding extremists groups taking over certain states, countries threatening to go to war, and viruses spreading throughout the world; the outlook of humanity does not look good. In addition to these dire headlines is the matter of climate change, which, unfortunately, is not as alarming to the public eye. Nonetheless, climate change is a pressing matter as it will impact every facet of society from economy to even human survival. Perhaps the general public find climate change as a vapid subject because of its nature to react belatedly to human activity, and how it is often represented with numbers, graphs, and projections; things that are not compelling to those that do not understand its importance. Even

The Earth’s temperature has been rising over the years. Sail Bhattacharya a professor & head of a medical college claims that over the last 8000 years, Earth’s surface temperature raised by 1 degree Celsius only (1). He also said, at the present rate of global temperature would rise by 2.5 degrees Celsius by 2050” (1). It’s a fact that the earth has gotten warmer over the years. At this moment the temperature hasn't raised much, only 1 degree Celsius. It may seem like it’s not a big deal, but it actually is, because the rising temperature rate is increasing as time passes according to Sail Bhattacharya (1). The temperature rising might not cause much harm now, but can badly affect us or whoever is living on Earth in the future.

According to The report by the American Meteorological Society, the 20 warmest years have occurred since 1981 (Peterson & Baringer, Tenant 2009). The 10 warmest years have occurred in the past 12 years, even though solar energy output has declined over the same period (Peterson & Baringer, Tenant 2009). The earth’s temperature continues to rise even though the energy from the sun reaching the earth has decreased. This increase in temperature has the potential to affect plants and animals that can only survive in certain temperature ranges. It also means that in some cases new plant species and animals will be able to survive where they could not in the past. This will place strain and produce many changes in local ecosystems, some of which may be beneficial and others which may be harmful. It will

Climate change is a fake. Many people say we have climate change, it’s because we use too much fossil fuels. We produce too much carbon dioxide or greenhouse gases. And then we have global warming. But actually, we feel the climate change or global warming it’s because human existence too short. Earth was formed around four and a half billion years ago. But human just appear only a sudden.

Limiting our understanding of climate change to primarily the human causes and effects disregards a major tenant of the ecological values of Catholic Social Teaching: creation is good. When focusing on the human side of climate change we often ignore that all of creation requires our aid. Creation is a blanket term that encompasses literally everything, including humans, plants, animals, inanimate natural objects, and human-made goods. All of creation’s components are negatively affected by climate change. However, this approach tends to be very overwhelming. It is nearly impossible to worry about and advocate for all of creation at once. Thus a more specific view is needed, and an anthropocentric one is easily applicable. When we consider the effects climate change has on humans and work to mitigate them, we are indeed responding to many of creations needs but through a less oppressively overwhelming lens. For example, an clear advocacy path in trying to help those affected by constant flooding would be to correct institutions that lead to rising temperatures and the melting of the polar ice. In doing so, we would also promote overall global health, as steadier temperatures would benefit the Artic animals, plant life and

We all live and breathe on the same planet, yet why do some of us deny the hard evidence given by scientists and scholars? In Justin Gillis article in The New York Time, Climate Change is Complex, it explains how the effects of people and our lack of initiative to restore what we’ve damaged only furthers the deterioration of the Earth. As a society, we contribute to climate change, proven by the data of scientists on temperature increase, ocean rise, and intense weather changes of our world, due to our carelessness and refusal to pick up and take responsibility of our own pollution.

Through the last decades, climate change has sparked up a controversial issue not only in the US but around the world. We have been told time and time again, what we, as people, are currently doing to our planet has been demonstrated scientifically to be ruining our planet. However, beyond the facts, and past the statistics, there’s something that gives these scientific demonstrations meaning. This happens to be the people of the world that these numbers fall behind. How do we work with and counter these grueling numbers that diminishes the world? And more importantly, what is the relationship between global climate change and international relations?

Climate Change is a big mystery for Today’s Scientists, There are ways scientists can predict what the climate will be like in the future or how it will change. There are only so many ways to predict the climate change.

The issue with climate change is between Christians, and people who believe humans are the problem of why climate change is happening, and getting worse. Although Christians know that God is making climate change happen for a reason, there is still an affect on the way humans take care of the earth. Numbers 35:33 says, “You shall not pollute the land in which you live, for blood pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of the one who shed it” (New International Version). Man (Secularists) say that earth has been here for billions of years, and the Earth’s temperature has been stable for over ten-thousand years. Now that observational science shows that Earth’s climate is now changing, secularists assume that human activity must be the cause of this change in temperature. But, these models are unprovable assumptions about Earth’s history. Methods such as the tree ring and ice core dating that are used to give these stable temperature readings are also unprovable assumptions” (Foley, Avery. “Science Confirms Climate Change!”). “Now, according to God’s word, we get a very different picture of Earth’s history. The Bible says that the earth is not billions of years old, but rather only six-thousand years old. Originally, there was a perfect creation where there was a “perfect climate”. This climate was

A meeting discussing global warming and the ongoing climate change (and the impact CO2 emissions have on the growing problem) has been in session in Peru for the past few days. Dozens of world leaders are gathering to discuss possible changes that can be implemented to halt the increase in temperature seen around the globe. However, many prominent scientists have stated that it may be too late for these world leaders to make any significant impacts (Associated). These scientists, and many other people around the world, believe that humans have contributed significantly to global warming, and as a result mankind needs to do whatever it can to combat this ongoing crisis. Nearly 3,500 miles away from Peru, United States Senator James Inhofe is in Washington D.C., representing Oklahoma in the United States Senate. Senator Inhofe is one of the loudest preachers of the belief that global warming is not the dire threat that so many scientists make it out to be. Inhofe has claimed that it is “arrogant for people to believe human beings are able to change what He (God) is doing in the climate” (Tashman). The Senator believes that only God controls the climate and the environment, and to even think that humans are impacting the earth’s climate is misguided (Tashman). These two opposing viewpoints bring with them questions of religion, politics, human responsibility, and ultimately the fate of the planet. On one side, there are those who say that the science is so concrete, and the