Climate Change And Its Impacts

The grand challenge and global issue being addressed in this proposal is climate change. The impact climate change has created in the world is huge and the numbers recorded by various scientific organisations require the worlds immediate response. Average global temperature has increased by .85°C from 1880 to 2012 and that has resulted in the increase of global average sea level by 19 cm. About 50 percent increase has been recorded in the global carbon emissions only since 1990 and that has grown even more quickly between the years 2000 and 2010. Especially in Australia, the climate has warmed since 1950. The average surface temperature in the Australian continent has increased by 0.9°C since 1910. It is also important to notice the change

Regardless of the people who do and do not believe in global warming, climate change is a pressing issue that has been accepted scientifically and politically for the past few decades. Although seemingly insignificant, a global temperature increase of 2°C is enough for worldwide pandemonium. To mitigate the effects of greenhouse gases that are trapping heat in the Earth’s atmosphere, nation leaders have gathered to settle and promise a fixed reduction in their country’s carbon emissions; the target emission level will cause an increase of only 1.5°C. Prominent examples include the Kyoto Protocol and Copenhagen Accord, with the most recent being the Paris Agreement. Nevertheless, disappointing carbon emission results from the Kyoto Protocol

Drawdown: The most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming edited by Paul Hawken is a book with one hundred solutions that can put a full stop to global warming. This book is published in 2017 by “An imprint of Penguin Random House LLC” in New York, US. This book is 240 pages long with lots of images as well as data tables that elaborate the content and helps the reader understand the concept better. The author talks about the common fear that everyone have in today’s world, climate change, and this book illustrates about 100 different methods and procedures that we can all follow to stop climate change from getting worse. All the methods have daring and accurate solutions that are designed by many international

Global warming has become one of the most important scientific, political and economic issues. According to the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), the period between 1995 and 2006 seems to have been one of the warmest yet recorded since 1850 relevant variables such as changes in ocean temperatures, changes in terrestrial ecosystems, the decrease in the extent of snow and ice in the northern hemisphere, the shortening of the cold seasons, melting glaciers, reduction in the extent of permafrost and rising sea level, provide clear evidence of that the world is warming (Miller, 2013). Delay and limit climate change requires long-term, large international effort. The most important is the current via the United Nations Convention on Climate Change has given, but it is also important to take preventive measures at national level (Gonzales, 2013). Industrialized countries have made some progress, albeit limited, in curbing GHG emissions (greenhouse gasses) recognizing the urgent need to develop specific policies, such as the use of emissions permits, taxes energy and environmental, industrial voluntary measures, regulatory

Climate change has been a growing problem over the past few decades, which is hurting our Earth, therefore, hurting humanity. With the help of big name companies lowering their emissions and developing and developed countries putting effort into helping the cause, it is possible to reduce the speed at which this global problem is happening. This is a real problem and it must be stopped. Countries all across the world, developed and developing alike, must carry the burden of mitigating climate change.

The “Climate Change 2014 Synthesis Report Summary for Policymakers” addresses the observed changes and their causes; future climate change risks and impacts; future pathways for adaptation, mitigation and sustainable development; adaptation and mitigation.

The most significant event to indicate climate change is the melting of the polar ice caps. The area of sea covered by the Arctic ice at the North Pole has shrunk by 10% in recent decades, and the thickness of the ice above the water has decreased by about 40%. On the other side of the world, the ice sheet above the Antarctic continent has become unstable. Glaciers are retreating all around the world. Since 1979, glaciers in the European Alps have lost about one-fifth of their volume, and the loss rate has clearly accelerated since the 1980s.

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.

"Each of the last three decades has been successively warmer at the Earth's surface than any preceding decade since 1850,” (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 occur.

Among the main goals of the Paris Agreement is to hold “the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels” (Paris Agreement, 2015). That is, countries involved in the agreement are expected to implement measures that

​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.

In December 1997, Kyoto protocol was signed to address global warming specifically. Global warming is the “gradual increase in the average temperature of the Earth 's atmosphere and its oceans due to green house gases emissions.”(NRDC, 2005) In the past 100 years, the rate of global warming is unprecedented. In fact, global warming has become one of the most challenging environmental problems in the 21st century. In order to effectively address this issue, international cooperation is necessary. Through international cooperation, undeveloped countries are able to overcome financial obstacles in meeting their targets. In addition, it could also promote worldwide technology sharing, data foundations and public awareness of climate change.

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 Planet Earth is broken, and we all had a hand in breaking it, inadvertently though it may have been, by adding an abundance of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere that contribute directly to global warming; and we continue to do so every time we start our car, turn up the heat, turn on the lights or throw away trash. Global warming is a problem, caused in large part by human activity, and as it stands, poses a monumental threat to the planet and all of its occupants; while mega polluters do not have an incentive to stop greenhouse gas production, we can, as individuals work towards the solution, greenhouse gas reduction, by improving our awareness and implementing the day to day measures necessary in achieving this goal. The purpose of this paper is to explore global warming, its causes and effects, in order to better understand what we can do to stop it.

Working with national and international bodies around the world to create and strengthen policies which reduce emissions and encourage funding and focus on adaptation to climate change.