Climate Change And How It Works

In the article, “ Climate Change is Here - And Worse Than We Thought” Hansen tells us about multiple effects of climate change. “The deadly european heatwave of 2003, the fiery Russian heatwave of 2010 and catastrophic droughts in Texas and Oklahoma last year can each be attributed to climate change.” He also mentions, “ The world that caused the 2003 heatwave in Europe that killed more than 50,000 people and the 2011 drought in Texas that caused more than $5 billion in damage.” Is also the result of climate change. In the same article Hansen says, “ The National Academy of Sciences, makes it clear that while average global temperature has been steadily rising due to a warming climate ( up to about 1.5 degrees fahrenheit in the past century), the extremes are actually becoming much more frequent and more intense worldwide.” It is important to know because our climate temperature is rising. If it keeps rising our land will dry up and we will be in drought, or cause wildfires, and animals that survive in the cold weather will be affected as

Global warming has been a major concern and has greatly affected the environment around the world for years. Andrew Revkin stated in a New York Times article entitled “A Closer Look at Climate Panel’s Findings on Global Warming Impacts” that climate change throughout the 21st century will lead to increases in ill-health in many regions, as compared to a baseline without climate change. There have been a number of debates regarding this controversial topic, though most of the scientific community can recognize the existence of global warming. Many often question if this effect on the environment is caused by human activity or natural cycles. About 95 percent of scientific studies prove that global warming is essentially caused by man.

Presently, while Scientists are warning us about the deleterious effects of Global Warming, “Nonscientists” also have separate views on the same issue. This indicates that Global Warming is a controversial issue that needs to be addressed. First, we need to understand the concept of “Global Warming.” Global Warming is described as the general increase in atmospheric temperatures worldwide, which results to climate changes. According to an article titled “Global Warming,” the earth’s atmosphere contains various gases that act as a blanket to trap heat from the sun and prevent it from escaping back into space. This means that these gases prevent the earth from being cold. This continued process is known as the greenhouse effect, and the gasses that are responsible for maintaining this heat are carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. They continued, “Over time, the amount of greenhouse gases trapped in the earth’s atmosphere has increased significantly, causing worldwide temperatures to rise.” Human activities like industrialization and agriculture also play a significant role in increasing these gases. For example, the use of certain fertilizers, produce nitrous oxide and methane emissions come from the production of fossil fuels from landfills, and from livestock, they emphasized. All these evidence illustrates that we are significantly responsible for recent increases in temperatures. For this reason, it is obvious that it is a pressing human issue. This recent dramatic

Climate change began in the 1820s with Joseph Fourier and in the 1860s with John Tyndall. Fourier put into motion the “greenhouse effect.” An effect where trapped gasses in the lower atmosphere absorb the sun’s heat. Tyndall found that “greenhouse gasses” cover the earth like a sheet. This is how the earth keeps cool and warm. Yet, too much greenhouse gasses can be futile. During this time, humans did not know that they were the ones causing implications. 100 years later, Svante Arrhenius proposed that “…doubling the CO2 content of the planet’s atmosphere would raise its temperature by 2.5 to 4.0 degrees Celsius” (Frank, para 7). Any slight change in temperature can offset the ecosystem. People began to act to save their planet, but there are still many in denial.

The author, Denchak, would like us to know that global warming is undoubtedly dangerous to our survival. Denchak explained that the hotter the weather is, the worse it will be for our environment. The author claims if global warming continues, it will be detrimental to our ecosystem and livelihood. Aliya Haq from the NRDC’s Clean Power Plan stated that weather disasters will increase due to how rapidly the weather is changing and how unnatural it is. Global emissions will make the temperature increase 8 degrees by the year 2100 if it continues to grow the way it is now. Furthermore, “...humans are the number one cause of the epidemic”, claims

All over the world mankind commonly references mother Earth as important and fragile and even locally there are second graders at Cornerstone elementary singing Native American songs describing how “the Earth is our mother, we must take care of her.” The rising issue of global warming, scientifically known as climate change, is slowly becoming a worldwide epidemic that only 53% of Americans are even worried about, according to a 2014 survey by the IPCC. The definition of climate change is a change in global or regional climate patterns, in particular a change apparent from the mid to late 20th century onwards and attributed largely to the increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide produced by the use of fossil fuels. The first studies of climate change and human carbon dioxide emissions started in 1896 by a man named Arrhenius. The interest was renewed during the cold war era when several satellites were launched and more data taking resources were available. 1970 was host to the first Earth day and since then global warming has gained more and more awareness and understanding. The cause of the average global temperature is due to the greenhouse effect, in which the suns heat and energy heats the Earth’s surface then gets absorbed by greenhouse gasses and re-emitted in all directions warming the surface and the atmosphere. With more than 1300 scientists on the IPCC team

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.

This paper with speak about global warming and the changes that will affect the earth and the people in it. It will also mention mitigation and strategies that are for global warming. I believe that the Earth’s temperature is going rise for a long time to come, due to the chemical that we daily. If things are done to correct the way we use our daily chemicals like use more organically made household product, and recycle more we could slowly curve the global warming issue.

Climate change. A buzz spreading around the world that has been known for decades but has recently bloomed into a rather controversial topic. With the topic being brought up in political debates, presidential speeches, as well as everyday conversations, there is one thing everyone can agree on: climate change is happening. Climatologists have proven with scientific evidence that the earth is rising in temperature and that this is a growing threat to our society. (AAAS) Although everyone agrees on this, there is still a disagreement on why climate change is happening and how can someone stop it? The two questions are really one in the same because once we get to the root of the issue we can prevent it from happening. Climate change remains a crucial problem in the U.S. and there are different approaches are being considered on how to solve this issue coming from our states, our president, and our congressman.

In the last 100 years, Earth’s average temperature has risen by 1.4°F. The rising global temperatures have caused changes in weather and climate. Global warming refers to the ongoing rise in the average temperature near Earth’s surface. This is causing a climate change, which refers to any significant change (major change in temperature, precipitation, or wind patterns) in the measures of climate lasting for an extended period of time (several decades or longer). Due to this, it is projected that the temperature will rise from 2 to 11.5°F in the next hundred years (US EPA, 2014). The “drivers,” which are the principal causes making this occur, are very controversial. It is debated whether a change in temperature is due to the work of

This student was intrigued when the article started off by saying global leaders just signed an agreement to slow the buildup of greenhouse gas emissions. For top level leaders to meet and make an agreement on such a very important global environmental issue was intriguing. The article explains how greenhouse gasses are being produced by man and changing the temperature of the earth. The atmosphere is what keeps the planet warm due to the sun emitting long wave radiation down to earth and the atmosphere helps reflect and retain this energy. However the absorbed energy needs to maintain radiation energy equilibrium for the planet’s atmosphere to be balanced. With the imbalance of gasses such as carbon

What really causes climate change? Is it human cause or is a natural process that is happening? I think that us as humans contribute more to climate change then natural causes.

​The global climate change was identified late 19th century with more and more greenhouse gases released into atmosphere by human activities. Carbon dioxide, a major human-produced greenhouse gas, accounts for more than 50% of direct contribution to the present-day reinforcing greenhouse gas effect. It is estimated that over half of the carbon dioxide comes from energy sector activities. Energy demand and energy-related carbon emissions in the developing regions cause an increasingly global concern because of their significant emissions growth.

Some inevitable uncertainties associated with simulating rice yield response to climate change have existed on the model predictions, including the uncertainty of emission scenarios with climate models (Wang et al. 2014), the discrepancies between the outputs of climate model by downscaling technique and the input of crop model (Xu et al. 2015) and the uncertainty in model parameterization (Li et al. 2015).

“If people knew the benefits of nature besides cute animals and a place for them to vacation. If they knew nature provided clean air, fresh water, pollinators for our crops, new medicines, new food crops, and that we can’t afford to produce these things for ourselves… They would understand the full value of nature,”- Harrison Ford. Climate change is a hotly debated topic in our world. There are those who believe humanity is causing the changes we are currently experiencing. Additionally, there are groups disputing the claim, citing research that states the climate goes through cyclic periods of warming and cooling. Several groups have a part in the debate surrounding the causes of climate change, creating further confusion for the general public. There is evidence supporting each side, though at this time there is not enough to make a definitive conclusion. The greenhouse effect is the retaining of solar energy in the atmosphere that heats the planet. This is necessary for life to thrive, though causes issues when unregulated (Issitt and Flynn). While global climate change is the modification of the planet’s temperatures, in recent years the trend has been warming. Humans have been a contributing factor to the current changes in climate, although there are other natural elements to be considered for effective understanding of global warming.