Climate Change Awareness

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.

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 debate about whether human activity or natural occurrences impacting climate changes has been plaguing scientists, politicians, and journalists across the globe for quite some time. People’s lifestyle must change if a positive effect is to be caused on the climate and recreate a safe environment. Changes such the reduction of burning less fossil fuels which reduces greenhouse gases, changes in public perception are needed to clean the environment.

Participants, around the age of 50, did not find climate change to be an immediate issue for them, or they did not know how it would affect them. Around ⅔ of the participants said that they were educated in climate change in school, but they either did not remember facts about climate change, or would not consider themselves knowledgeable about climate change. Continuing education, for adults out of school, is also incredibly important. We can do this through advertisements in the newspaper, online, or on television. According to Change the Equation, 48% of Maine science teachers did not even attend school for the class they are teaching. We need to educate the teachers just as much as their

Climate change is caused by most human activities. Most of us humans harm the earth every day. Some may know what we do is harming the earth, but still do it, and some people may not have a clue. A research professor in the Learning at the Harvard Graduate School of Education said that a large, nationally

Article thesis: People already care about the climate change and are aware of it. They understand the problems it concerns; however, they are not connecting the current climate changes with the effects of our surroundings or on ourselves

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.

Education has long been around and is a important aspect to the American culture with many kids starting school at the age of 4 and going till they are graduated at the average age of 18 years old. Many of these students then continue on to college and specialize within a field of interest to them. In grade schools, many have recycling drives and talk about the impacts of one’s global footprint. Anna’s response towards education was, “school helps teach us how to lessen our impact on the environment by teaching us about renewable and nonrenewable resources, through programs such as Earth Day and Arbor Day”. As these students continue to get older they may choose a study that is outside of the general interest of the environment. Where as Max took to studying about the environment in college.

Although holes, in the ozone layer are natural, the pollutants cause by deforestation, and fracking, can, and in fact, do, destroy the ozone layer, continually allowing the sun to emit more UV rays into the atmosphere heating the earth’s surface. The natural, or not so natural heating of the earth is a very important aspect to look at, when talking about the reasons behind global warming. In the painting, by Chantal Bilodeau, one is able to see a polar bear stranded on an iceberg in the middle of an ocean where it is unable to make the lengthy swim back to a larger land or ice mass. This photo represents the effects of climate change in terms of ocean levels rising due to melting polar ice caps. If these polar ice caps, melt, even 50%, the water levels will increase 20 meters in height, flooding the majority of coastal cities, including, New York, California, Dubai and many others. The melting of the polar icecaps, will kill hundreds of arctic species, leaving them either to migrate with the help of animal protection programs, or they will die of inhabitation along with millions of humans who will die because of severe and dangerous floods in some of the worlds most inhabited cities. For these reasons, it is clear that climate change, is an ingoing issue that can be classified as human based, and naturally based if one considered the change in pace, due to human actions. Whether, people consider it a natural phenomenon, hoax, or take responsibility for their actions, Global warming is clearly a worldwide problem that is going to eventually cause extinction of the human race if it is not resolved in the next decades, as said by both Lynas, and Klein in their outstanding scientific non-fiction

Climate change is a huge overarching issue that directly relates to almost every environmental issue we are facing today on the planet. In essence, climate change is the main incapacitating factor for the 4 factors of sustainability. The Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication released a report based on the findings of a nationally represented survey. This report expands upon the connection between scientific findings behind climate change and how the public perceives this

Most climate scientists agree with the idea that the main cause of the current global warming trend is human expansion of the "greenhouse effect", warming that results when the atmosphere traps heat radiating from Earth toward space. Over the last century, the burning of fossil fuels like coal and oil has increased the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). This happens because the coal or oil burning process combines carbon with oxygen in the air to make CO2. To a lesser extent, the clearing of land for agriculture, industry, and other human activities has increased concentrations of greenhouse

For instance, Western country people generally perceive the climate change that is primarily affecting in developing country who are in a lack of resources (Reser, Bradley, Glendon, Ellul & Callaghan, 2012). A survey in Australia, Slovakia and Ireland conducted by Uzzell (2000) showed that people not only tended to saw the climate change problems as more serious the further those issues were from themselves, but also their sense of responsibility for doing something about climate decreased with the increasing spatial distance. This result shows the challenge of communicating and supporting climate change action, given the lack of equality between the location of perceived effects and the willingness to take action. Also, Spence, Poortinga, and Pidgeon (2012) revealed that the willingness of taking action is when people think the problem is local, yet they tend to discount the severity of effects at the

In today’s political climate, individuals are more polarized than ever over climate issues. We don’t see much agreement that for whatever the reason, climate change is affecting the Earth. The issues over climate change has hit the media and the environmentalist has done a lot to shined light on the issue as well but, a lot of the citizens still believe that global warming isn’t real. If we are not educated about the issues regarding a sustainable living and about the climate changes going on in current world, then the issue can’t be solved. Educating children when they are young can be a great way to teach living a sustainable life-style. We the people and the politicians need to take a stand and create awareness in schools about living a sustainable life and educate the new generations to care about the negative human impacts on the world.

The government can subsidize companies that improve technology to eliminate fossil fuel usage, which could be key to reversing climate change. When fossil fuels are eliminated the Earth could reverse climate change in just years. The government should also work to educate the public about the issue, however cannot tackle this alone. Harvard President, Drew Faust says, “Universities have a crucial role to play, acting through research and education” (Powell). With the help of universities, the government can educate the public about the impacts of climate change and how to conserve energy usage. Most of the population does not know that the Ozone layer absorbs the Sun’s radiation and when it is destroyed, less radiation is absorbed and more is released to the Earth. In a study performed by Yale, the respondents were graded based on their knowledge of climate change; over 52% of the respondents were given an F based on what they knew (Leiserowitz). Advertisements about climate change, that have a sentimental effect on people’s emotions, can be a great way to educate the public. Also, educate younger generations from the start of their learning period. Teaching and building good habits, while generations are still young, could bring change over the course of

The primary cause of climate change is the human expansion of the greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect is a natural occurrence, which NASA defines as “the warming that results when the atmosphere traps heat radiating from space” (NASA). During the greenhouse effect, heat from the sun passes through the atmosphere, which is made up of various gases. When the heat from the sun reaches the surface, some of it radiates away from Earth, back into space. However, some of the gases in the atmosphere, known as greenhouse gases, absorb this heat, preventing it from escaping (World Meteorological Organization). The greenhouse effect keeps the Earth at a habitable temperature. The World Meteorological Organization, or WMO, states that the greenhouse effect and