Climate Change
Climate change, otherwise known as global warming, has grown more apparent in recent years, with increased natural disasters, significantly warmer temperatures and unreasonably long seasons. Global warming is one of the main concerns that scientists have been researching for the past century. Scientific evidence shows that global warming is caused by human behaviors. Due to the amount of human-induced carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that have been released into the air, the earth is becoming a highly poisonous place to live on. Earth’s climate has been constantly changing ever since the Industrial Revolution, when innovations began and factories were built, which emitted mass air pollution. As more technological
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Although there are state regulations on hydraulic fracturing, there is a lack of federal regulation, which leads there to be an estimation of 400,000 fractured wells (Leahy 1) currently in the United States, with more to come. Along with the emission of methane, other potential hazards include blowouts, gas leaks, air pollutions, wastewater overflows, and home explosions (Ehrenberg 22). Hydraulic fracturing should be federally regulated in order to prevent the tremendous amounts of shale gases that cause global warming.
Another form of human-induced climate change that emits methane is the act of rice cultivation. Methane from rice production is most apparent in Asian countries. Rice requires a large amount of water to be manufactured, so they are usually grown in wetland soils. Rice is an organic carbon, and when organic substances decompose in wetland soils, the end result is methane and carbon dioxide (Neue 466). An agricultural research revealed that “up to 20 percent of global methane emissions come from flooded rice fields” (Weaver-Missick 22). That is quite a large quantity considering the size of Earth. However, it is unlikely for rice production to be halted, because rice is a major crop that is essential to many cultures. Therefore, it is vital to find a solution to produce rice without the harmful properties that it poses to
In recent years, global climate change due to global warming has been largely researched. The paper, “Global Climate Change Triggered by Global Warming,” offers compelling evidence from various scientific papers that the process of Earth’s climate undergoing significant change has already begun and requires our attention due to the probability that human-generated greenhouse gases are the primary cause. Major focal points are shifting towards determining the causes to mitigate the effects rather than establishing the existence as sufficient amount of evidence has proven that global warming is indisputable. During the final decade of the 20th century, climatologists have concluded that the past millennium to be the warmest, especially in the year of 2005. Solutions towards the cause would require assistance from the population as a whole.
Climate change is evident throughout the world and is a major issue. It is no secret that our planet is getting warmer. Global warming is now recognized in the scientific community as a real problem. There are multiple aspects that are causing this issue. Majority of the warming is caused by greenhouse gases. Volcanic eruptions and changes in the intensity of solar radiation have offset the warming partially. It is estimated that average annual temperatures will increase 3.5°F-9.5°F by the century’s end.
In this 21-century climate change is becoming worse and worse. There is water levels are rising, animals in cold areas are starting to die because of the rises temperatures, and humans' health is being at risk, why because of human activities. The activities that humans mostly do is burning fossil fuels and deforestation.
Our world is changing. Not for the good, it’s getting worse. Within the last two hundred years our climate has been changing. Ever since the discovery of how useful nonrenewable resources are our climate has been gradually getting warmer. Climate change is threat with many consequences from the ecosystems that people live in all the way down to the evolution of species in the wild. There are many clear and present dangers in the world today, but climate change is of the most importance causing species to go explode in numbers, average temperatures to increase, uncontrollable forest fires, and the quality of air depleting.
The argument over climate change is an old struggle between the people who look to the future, and those who care about the present. Climate change is a term used to refer to the increase in average global temperature. Many people agree that most, if not all, of climate change is influenced by man-made constructs. These constructs include: factories, cars, and power plants. Even though some people believe that climate change does not exist, that it is just fluxuations in the Earth’s climate, there is more than enough scientific evidence to show that human power plants and motor vehicles as well as burning up forests for farmland accounts for the majority of climate change.
One of the most compelling and difficult environmental problems society is facing today is climate change. People do not realize how much the environment has changed for the worse in the last ten years, until they are told that the last two decades of the 20th century have been the hottest in the last 400 years, according to climate studies (Conserve Energy Future). Today the carbon dioxide levels have reached 396.81 parts per million (ppm). “Carbon dioxide (CO2) has also increased over the last 100 years-- from about 300 ppm to 370 ppm. Interestingly, the majority of these additions have occurred in the last 50 years, when temperature increases have been slowest” (geocraft). There are no known solutions yet to reverse these effects in the
On a federal level, governing the process of hydraulic fracturing in the natural gas and oil industry are a collaboration of three agencies, the department of energy (DOE), the department of the interior (DOI) and the environmental protection agency (EPA) , which various legislative acts and policies authorize standards under. In addition, States are free to regulate hydraulic fracturing as they see fit, with the exception that state regulations must meet the minimum requirements of any applicable federal regulations. With each agency having a different core competence from the other, the joint association of the three provides a solid support to safer practicing of hydraulic fracturing. This approach to oil and gas industry regulations has led to varying levels of complexity in the regulatory process encountered by companies in different states.
Current data reveals that the concentration of Carbon Dioxide in the earth's atmosphere is approximately 387 parts per million, which is roughly a 31% increase in the period 1750 to 2009. Consequently, it is evident that such increases in temperatures have caused a warmer planet (7). It is also evident that it is impossible to reverse the developments of industrial revolution. This means that as the advancements of industrial revolution continue and as energy demands increases, it is possible that this trend of climate change will continue for decades to come (McAloon, 8). The consent of the climate research community is that it most likely already affects climate noticeably and will compel significant
The 1760’s marked the start of the industrial revolution- but it also marked what is believed to be the start of human influenced climate change. Climate change refers to the changes in global or regional climate patterns. Usually the topic of global climate change is dismissed as a nonexistent problem or a non-human influenced issue. But the impacts of global climate change pose a current and future day threat to human advancement. Climate change will bring with it changes in regional weather patterns, sea level rises, and stronger storms. The changes of global weather patterns will bring with it some of the most devastating effects.
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
Climate change is expanding worse and more dangerous each hour. Shocking facts are arising about climate change. What is more startling is how humans have been causing it, and it may affect us. For centuries, we as a human race have been completely belligerent to the signs staring us right in the face. If the damage is not repaired or progress slowed, consequences will be paid. The dangers of global warming are threatening wildlife and humans with conditions like rising sea level.
Through various scientific researches, it has been confirmed that human influence on the climate system is clear and recent anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases are the highest in history (Climate Change 2014 Synthesis Report Summary for Policymakers, 2014). The earth has become successively warmer over the last three decades since 1850. Both scientific and observed evidence have shown
Human life have been significantly affected by the industrialization of our planet, consequently resulting in an increased emission of greenhouse gases. These gases have contributed to the increasing temperature of the Earth which is known as Global warming. Of all the greenhouse gases, Carbon dioxide emission have the largest impact that contribute to Global warming. In addition, increasing carbon dioxide emission has become a growing trend in developed countries. The evidence of global warming are glaciers retreating, extreme weather patterns occurings, and animals that depend on cold climates for survival are at risk of being extinct. Even with the evidence of Global Warming, there are some people who does not believe in global warming or see it as an issue that should be addressed. One of the common arguments by non-believers of global warming is that the earth surface temperature was always increasing in the past.
Global warming became a danger to our planet since the past few years due to several reasons. We always hear that global warming has become a serious problem and a danger to our planet. But do we really know what the global warming is? Or how does it happen or what is the side effects of global warming? Or how can we prevent or reduce it and save our planet? Global warming happens due to several reasons. Whether they are human actions such as emissions that occur from fossil fuel burning, or methane emissions from animals, agriculture and from burning gasoline for transportation. There are also ways to reduce the global warming and save our plant, such as; increase using technologies that use low or zero carbon, managing and taking care of forests and agriculture, and boosting energy efficient which means using energy more properly.
Methane is the primary greenhouse gas produced during rice cultivation. Methane, contributes only a fraction of total greenhouse gases, but stores far more heat than CO2, as a result it is considered to be far more damaging over a 100-year period. In agriculture it is produced as a result of fields being flooded, resulting in the decomposition of organic material, depleting oxygen in the soil and water, causing anaerobic conditions (Dickie et al. 2014). Water management is one of the most important factors affecting and causing GHG emissions. In 2010, worldwide methane emissions from rice cultivation accounted for 11 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions from the agricultural sector and a third of emissions from crops, making it the crop with the highest GHG footprint (FAOSTAT, 2013).