Climate Change And Its Effects On The Environment

For many years there were discussions about global warming, whether it is true or false. Is there evidence to prove that global warming has impacted the climate due to the rise in the earth’s temperature? Climate change is a problem that is worldwide that should be reviewed. The rise in the earth’s temperature has caused some impact to the weather and climate changes to many places worldwide. This rise in temperature has the potential of causing drastic changes to the earth in many ways. It is time to view the global warming concerns and determine if the information and finding have impacted the climate and the weather. This paper will view some of the causes, similarities, and solution of global warming today..

Climate is the weather conditions over a long term. For millions of years, the earth kept changing between hot and cold, and wet and dry. As the earth warmed and cooled, plants and animals appeared and disappeared. People have had to change their way of life many times as plant and animal life changed. Since the industrial revolution, the humans built many factories and invented lots of electronic devices. They emit harmful gases called greenhouse gases like carbon dioxides and ozone, which affects our planet. However, it is difficult for people to recognize the effects because the process of climate change takes a long time. Furthermore, people think it is so far away. For example, as in Antarctica, all the icebergs are melting, which is

In just under fifty years, a topic that was once considered controversial, causing people to avoid discussions on it for reasons ranging from denial to discomfort, has evolved from those unpleasant debates to today’s friendly conversations. The topic is climate change, and the controversy surrounding it has been rooted in disagreement on what exactly causes it. Some say that climate change is a hoax and the changes are part of a natural cycle of the Earth’s climate system. Others are positive that it is the direct result of human activities and without immediate action, the planet will become inhospitable to human life. Then, there are those who are in-between, not sure which side to take, but are aware that something is happening to the global climate system.

The amount of Green House Gas (GHG) emissions that are produced and released in the atmosphere from Canada, the United States (U.S), and many other countries, is a big issue for the planet’s health since it causes climate change. Climate change has various damaging effects on the earth. It can cause severe weather such as floods, droughts, etc. Some political parties agree that a carbon pricing policy should be implemented, like the Green party, New Democratic Party (NDP), and the Liberals, while other parties think that it isn’t worth implementing, like the Conservatives. Implementing a carbon policy will take a lot of time, effort, and money, and might unfairly target those who are at a disadvantage, like low income people or those living in remote areas, making them pay more taxes. But to avoid the harmful effects of climate change, Canada needs to implement a carbon pricing policy—a method that has made a significant change in many countries that decided to tax or cap carbon emissions.

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 ocean over flooding due to contaminating the ocean caused by humans because humans have an impact on the environment. Humanity needs to cut down the production in the coal industry because people are burning the coal; this is causing the coal to pollute the air people breath. The effects of climate change is caused by deforestation, overpopulation, burning coal, and contaminated food production.

Climate changes usually happens slowly in time but the past experience have shown that climate change can happen within a short time. This has become real and is a huge problem. Climate change refers to change in temperature. It can be either warming or cooling. Whereas global warming refers to an expansion in normal worldwide temperatures which leads to climate change. The reports show that the 12 warmest years comes after 1998. According to a survey in 2008, US have contributed 25 percent of greenhouse emission in the world. Climate changes can cause the formation of glaciers and can lead to the freeze of rivers and all. It has caused deaths of millions of people. It can lead to extinction of plants and some animals which would in turn affect the environment in a bad manner. Preventing the climate change and global warming is not something that can be done individually. Whereas there are a lot of ways in which the governments and business can curb this wicked problem.

Climate change is known worldwide and the environmental effects on our planet cannot be disregarded. Understanding the distinction among climate and weather is imperative in understanding how certain variables add to the change of temperature. These variables can include natural causes of the Earth’s decay over time, however, scientists are well aware that human error and our daily lifestyles contribute to the poor conditions that our earth is falling into. When humans just started to exist on Earth, human impacts on the environment occurred in only a minimal and insignificant quantity. This occurred because of small populations and the absence of innovation and technology around them. When humans adjusted to the environment and figured out how to expand and humans became inventors, and innovators, the population started to develop and future expanded. However, not all that we as humans invent and contribute to our society is clean, or natural. Some of it can be toxic, and some of it can be harmful to our atmosphere and our homes. By the present guidelines, individuals living past the age of eighty years of age, is a noteworthy achievement for humankind. Fuller lives from the inhabitants of earth implies that more assets from the earth will be used. However, this is not suggesting that we as humans should not want to lives longer lives. It suggests that we as humans should live smarter, cleaner, fuller lives. The cleaner we are as humans, and use the lowest amount of earth

Usually people pay attention on daily weather changes and how the weather will be through the week or the month, but do we pay attention on climate change how it affects our lives. Did we ask ourselves what are the causes of climate change? How climate change impacts our activities? Can we do something to solve this big issue before to turn to a big disaster? These questions make me think deeply how we work to solve this problem because the earth is the only place so far we can live on it. Climate change has become a worldwide problem and this issue affects human lives, environment, social and economic. The change in climate has serious impacts on our natural ecosystem and as human we should face it before causing great catastrophe such as water availability, agriculture, rising sea levels and health. Many studies recognize that sign of change is increasing in average temperatures, snow and rainfall, patterns are shifting, and extreme climate events are becoming more common in our days. These changes are expected to grow if we don’t solve the issues or the causes of climate change.

GOAL: To reduce the total number of greenhouse gas emissions world wide and slow, or stop, globe climate change.

Climate change is viewed as new global threat for the population all around the world. Climate change can be define as “Disturbance in environment and climate patterns with respect to increased level of atmospheric carbon dioxide, methane and nitrogen ratio”. Climate change is now tagged as critical security problem for present and upcoming generations with the passage of time. It is now predicted that these climate changes will increase the risk of violent conflict. Climate change is not only affecting the quality of life, but it is also causing limited access to natural resources that are essential in sustaining human life. It is also restricting access to opportunities and services that are helping people to retain standard quality living conditions. Disturbance in ecological and social system is a threat to living lives that have greater dependency on natural resources. These negative changes are dangerous and sudden transitions are threatening basic relationship between human security and social system.

The past two decades has see the largest push for the creation renewable energy technologies in order to reduce the anthropogenic carbon emissions, that have risen so quickly since the industrial revolution began in the early 19th century. The common use of cars, the expansion of commercial farming and the large use of everyday use of fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas have all contributed to the rising levels of green house gasses. Carbon dioxide levels have increased by around 38% and methane levels have increased by 148% (Earthobservatory.nasa.gov, n.d.) both carbon dioxide and methane are considered to be green house gasses. The warming of the earth’s climate has gone hand in hand with the rising green house gas

The development of society and economy has caused varieties of environmental problems in the past decades. Carbon dioxide (CO2), the most common greenhouse gases has caused a great impact on climate change, and to reduce the emission of CO2 becomes a worldwide agenda. (Christopher R.I, 2013) While, Buildings, taking up third of the total UK greenhouse gas emissions (CCC, 2014http://www.theccc.org.uk/charts-data/ukemissions-by-sector/buildings/), have a great potential to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions and improve the sustainable development in the future. One of the non-neglect issue to reduce the energy use and CO2 emission of building is in the construction phases. The embodied carbon accounting 20-50% of the total

“If international climate policy is to prove effective, government policy-makers will unavoidably need to take all business actors on board, not the least of them the multinational oil corporations. The oil industry is one of the most powerful and global business sectors today and its activities and products are directly linked with rising greenhouse gas emissions. Understanding its climate change strategies and actions is of utmost importance to those policy-makers aiming at constructive participation of the oil industry in the shift to a climate-friendly world.” (Van den Hove, Le Menestrel and De Bettignies, 2002)

Climate change has a number of negative factors on individuals and societies around the world. It causes nations to witness and be a part of poverty, limits their resources such as water and electricity and can cause huge weather disasters (Klein,

The world is increasingly getting warmer each year, and these increasing temperatures could have the effect of destabilizing the status quo. It has been widely asserted that the increasing global mean temperatures are culminated from human actions. In neglecting care of the environment, humans have essentially instigated a deterioration of living conditions. The increasing temperatures will create a domino effect, by causing environmental conditions that could amplify the rate of extinction of rare species. At the current moment, a number of species are facing a real danger of extinction. Unless the situation is addressed, future generations will face the brunt of the environment damage that has been created thus far. It is even plausible for human extinction to occur, although it may not be in the near future, it is still a possibility. It is the current generation’s responsibility to ensure, or rather play a role in, the vitality of future generations.