The Impacts of Climate Change on Society: Global climate change has the ability to adversely impact and disrupt many sectors of society —including, people’s health, agriculture and food supply, water supply, ecosystems, and more. Extreme weather events, such as decreased rainfall, lead to prolonged and more intense wildfire seasons which result in decreased air quality for those in proximity. Droughts increase the stress placed on ground water supplies which is resulting a reduction of water quality due to increased contamination following intense period of rainfall (“Impacts”). Rising temperatures and increased greenhouse gas emissions have led to increased air pollution (i.e. aerosols and black carbon) which is detrimental to individual’s with respiratory problems. Additionally, dry conditions have resulted in an increase in the intensity and duration of allergy seasons in addition to an increase in the spread of insect borne diseases (“Global Warming”). Furthermore, sea level rise and more intense storms puts coastal communities at risk of catastrophic storm surges and flood damage (“Impacts”). Ecosystems that act as natural buffers to combat the impacts of severe weather related events (such as floods and fires) are being devastated. For example, increasing acidification of the oceans in addition to overfishing have disrupted marine-based food production and harmed fishing industries (“Impacts”). The United States energy infrastructure, primarily relating to electricity,
Finding- Human Health: This finding lists many adverse affects to human health brought about by climate change. Some of these effects include respiratory problems brought about by wild fire and pollution, the spread of diseases from insects that have expanded habitats, and an increase in more severe weather causing the human race to have to deal with extreme heat, rain, and wind. Increased rain in certain places leads to larger spread of disease, while less rain has led to more wildfires and decreased air quality. Most of the effects to human health have to do with intense temperature and precipitation changes, and many of these health effects are beginning to take place currently.
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.
Environmentalists believe that climate change is a significant issue that the government needs to work on it. Scientists have explained that many events including drought, flooding, severe weather, rising sea levels, acidifying rains, and wildfires have affected people’s lives and the planet due to climate change. Climate change is caused by increasing heat in the atmosphere. The consumption of fossil fuels and other emissions are trapping carbon dioxide in the air, which increases the temperature and the more carbon dioxide humans produce the more the environment rises in temperature (Meyer, 2017). The hotter temperature affects environment, economy, health, and security. For example, people who live near coal mines are at higher risk to get asthma than other places, or fishermen suffer from ocean acidification because their income is heavily relying on fishing (Frank, 2012). These two examples indicate that climate change is threatening the environment and can create disruptions.
Sometimes this strange change can affect the lives of citizens. Heatwaves causing an increase in evaporation could be dangerous, leading to extreme weather events such as hurricanes, droughts, wildfires and other natural disasters. The increase in heat rising are fuels to storms, making them even more dangerous and of much greater damage done to the environment. Farmers are having trouble with growing their crops because of the change of weather and the urge to keep up with the patterns and unpredictable water supplies. Climate change also often prevents the world from transportation because of hot weather, flooding, and other extreme weather conditions. Young children, the elderly, and those who are already ill have a very low rate to adapt to higher temperatures and poor air quality. This leads to heart and respiratory diseases, including
The earth as we know it is steadily changing. Weather its evolution, technology, weather or our environment, nothings is what it used to be. Climate is a major factor that is changing. This has been going on for quite some time yet, not taken seriously. Our planet has been much warmer in the past 2 centuries then ever before and scientist are working frantically to reduce this trend,
At the GLACIER Conference, President Obama said, “climate change is no longer some far off problem; it is happening here; it is happening now”. President Barack Obama states a good fact; climate change is affecting the world tremendously. The glaciers are melting at an astonishing rate and the surface temperature of the world is only increasing. Currently, scientists argue that climate change intensified because of human activity; however, the circumstance is quite the opposite. Global warming refers to the rising surface temperature, whereas climate change includes warming and the effects - like melting glaciers, heavier rainstorms, or more frequent drought (Kennedy and Lindsey). Human produced gases play a factor in global warming but humans are not responsible for climate change because global warming only represents one aspect of climate change. Although human activity plays a part in global warming, human activity is not primarily responsible for climate change because the fluctuations of the sun’s heat is responsible for the increased surface temperature, the levels of human produced CO2 do not correlate with the increase in surface temperature and the computerized climate models display inadequate and incorrect information.
Did you know that Climate change is affecting people all around the world? Climate change is a very bad thing that has been going on for hundreds of years. So many things are being affected by climate change. Things that are being affected are trees, plants, animals, and even people. One reason that climate change is happening is that the earth is always in orbit so the climate is always changing. Climate change isn’t only nature, climate change is caused from humans, the sun, and animals. We are causing climate change by burning things. Scientists predicted this and they’re using models to predict climate change. Snow leopards in the Himalayas are dieing off. Asian Rhinos depend on floodplain grasslands and climate change changes the seasonal patterns the Rhinos go off of. Orang-utans are also one of the species at risk from deforestation. The ice that the Polar Bears use for homes are slowly starting to melt which means they are becoming more and more crowded.
The weather and climate change play a detrimental role in society’s health. A lot of people have argued back and forth about the affects that climate change has on society. Some people have thought it has affected us negatively while others thought differently.
İnsanlar tarafından atmosfere salınan gazların sera etkisi yaratması sonucunda dünya yüzeyinde sıcaklığın artmasına küresel ısınma deniyor. Daha ayrıntılı açıklamak gerekirse dünyanın yüzeyi güneş ışınları tarafından ısıtılıyor.
İnsanlar tarafından atmosfere salınan gazların sera etkisi yaratması sonucunda dünya yüzeyinde sıcaklığın artmasına küresel ısınma deniyor. Daha ayrıntılı açıklamak gerekirse dünyanın yüzeyi güneş ışınları tarafından ısıtılıyor.
Through the eyes of most scientists, global warming is seen as a very serious and severe threat. The actions taken by humans, such as industry and consumption of fossil fuels plus the increase in population and agriculture have played a big part in global warming. If something is not done soon the results could be very bad.
One of the main concerns that rise because of climate change is and economic loss and illness. Climate change cause economic loss because damaged property that is caused by wildfires, floods, droughts and storms. Snowstorms and heavy rainfalls causes damage to crops. It can also disrupt work and school when it is difficult to travel because of the bad weather. The climate change also affects farmers because they have to deal with more pests when the higher temperatures rise; they also have to keep the livestock cool by using more water than necessary. (UCS, 2011) It’s costing the average more money than they think when it comes to the affects on climate change. Climate also not only affects the pocket but it also affects the health of humans. The heat waves from climate change led to dehydration and heat stroke. The elderly and young children living in northern areas are more likely to suffer from heart-related illness.
Global warming is affecting our ecosystems, economy and communities in different ways. However, most of the people are unaware about this climate change and refusing to take it as a serious threat. Government needs to learn the ropes to bend over backwards to stop this climate change by forestation and restricting industrial revolution. Our ecosystem is very sensitive to this climate change. Earth has already lost many species and a lot of them are at the edge of their end. In order to cope with climate changes, our economy is also being affected. It’s becoming very hard and expensive to face the consequences of climate changes
In the Observatory Gallery, one of the most attractive exhibits is the large HD screen with tons of data relative to the atmosphere, temperature and so on. This HD screen is designed to show the process of the discussion about “What’s really warming the world? ” through NASA's visualization model. Global warming, one of the hottest climate topics all around the world in the past few years, is the observed century-scale average temperature rise and related effects.