Climate Change Is An Undeniable And Unavoidable Reality

In the last 100 years, the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has increased, causing the Earth to warm by an average of 0.6 degrees celsius, largely a result of burning fossil fuels for energy, transportation, and land use changes increased for food production. The basic science is straightforward and climate researchers have shown that gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and others can trap heat in the Earth’s atmosphere, causing a phenomenon known as the greenhouse effect. Human activities such as industry, transport, energy generation and deforestation all produce these greenhouse gases. In the last 20 years, concern has grown that global warming is inevitable and now considered most probably caused by man-made increases in

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 a real problem facing our world with all of the progression of today’s society. The amount of Greenhouse Gas emissions has gone up drastically in the past one hundred years alone. The use of transportation, industry, electricity and the deprivation of the world's natural resources has increased the amount of Carbon Dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere. The Environmental Protection Agency has shown an increase in the Earth's temperature by 0.8 degrees C in the past century alone. It is proven that humans are the cause of global warming but it is not too late to change how we are.

In the years ahead, climate change will have a significant impact on every aspect of the daily lives of all human beings -- possibly greater even than war. Shifting precipitation patterns and ocean currents could change where and how food crops grow. If icecaps melt and low-lying areas are flooded, as is predicted, entire populations could be forced to move to higher ground. The tsunami of 2004 and Hurricane Katrina, in 2005, provided vivid examples of what large-scale climactic catastrophes entail.

Climate change is a threat that has been in existences for years, but appears to be a greater threat to the world currently. According to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, there is more than 90 percent certainty that emissions of heat-trapping gases from human activities have caused “most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-20th century” (IPCC, 2007).

Climate change looms large over our rapidly growing and continually changing world. No longer are the adverse effects of this menacing global issue a mere ominous projections, they are starting to become a very concrete reality. Countries are today experiencing rising sea levels, which compromises coastal infrastructure, prolonged drought, squeezing food supply and agricultural productivity, as well as extreme storms. Rising temperatures have already led to vast reductions in the size of the Arctic. There is now no doubt amongst scientists that anthropogenic activity has been the primary catalyst to the

Even though the main fear induced by climate change is whether the global average temperature would further increase or not, climate change has been having negative influences on people’s lives. Due to the rising sea level and erosion, six inhabited islands in the Pacific Ocean have a large amount of land being washed into the sea and people had to relocate (Reuters). According to EPA, the rising sea level also decreases the availability of farmlands and the rising temperature increases the presence of certain diseases, such as malaria and yellow fevers (EPA). People who are negatively affected by climate change and decide to relocate are called climate refugees. They have been present in protests, such as the People’s Climate March in 2017, opposing Trump’s denial of climate change. Despite climate refugees’ participation of political activities, I argue that in the US, civic engagement around climate change focuses on symbolic rhetorics, but neglects concrete advocating and assistance to climate refugees.

Along with these effects comes an inexorable variety of new social problems. For instance, global warming is creating a bigger gap between the life of the rich and the life of the poor. As the rich can afford to adjust to climate the change, the poor will struggle just to maintain a lower quality of life than they have even now. Additionally, climate change is going to be a financial burden on both the government and personal level. Damage to infrastructure, necessary advancements in medicine, and innovational new technology obligatory to keep people safe is all going to add up to a monumental bill. Lastly, climate change is a social problem because it exposes underdeveloped countries to vulnerability while they are not responsible for the variation. With a problem as global as climate change, it is important that all nations work together to adapt, otherwise there will be even more consequences caused by global warming than just physical ones. Although it is almost too late to stop the imminent effects of climate change, we can start to work on the social aspects that will devastate the world just as

climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time. It is undisputedly clear that human are partly responsible for global warming through deforestation burning fossil fuels and other changes we have caused to the land. There has not only been a significant increase in temperature across the globe but the seal level has rose 20cm in the past century alone. the (Intergovernmental panel of climate change, IPCC) has also tracked the “unprecedented recent rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases since the beginning of the industrial revolution.” It is alarming that the emissions of greenhouse gas continue to rise globally and it is deeply concerning that all countries, particularly developing countries, are vulnerable

[Abstract: It is now an established truth that industrialized developed countries are liable to climate change phenomenon by emitting huge amount of greenhouse gases on biosphere. This truth poses a question whether or not these large emitter countries have an obligation to assist the climate change displacers for relocation. The word ‘relocation’ has two ramifications: internal or within the country and external or across the trans-boundary. American scholar Katrina Wyman depicts climate change displacers identical to other vulnerable people that insist her to say that there may be a moral obligation to assist financially and technologically

It is widely held that climate change is real and happening now Case (2006) as global average temperature has warmed about 0.8°C within the past century. Coupled with this, the past three decades has witness a global average warming of 0.6°C (Hansen et al., 2006). This is largely to due to human induced factors (IPCC, 2001). A recent report produced by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences confirms that the last few decades of the 20th century were in fact the warmest in the past 400 years (National Research Council, 2006). The IPCC also projects that if greenhouse gas emissions, the leading cause of climate change, continue to rise, the mean global temperatures will increase 1.4 – 5.8°C by the end of the 21st century (IPCC, 2001). In a similar

Climate change is the single biggest environmental and humanitarian crisis of our time. Our Earth’s temperature is climbing at an alarming rate. Earth 's average temperature has risen by 1.4°F over the past century, and is projected to rise another 2 to 11.5°F over the next hundred years. The planet is seeing the devastating effects of a warmer earth; warmer oceans, melting ice caps, and rising sea levels. As these and other changes become more pronounced in the coming decades, they will likely present challenges to our society and our environment.

Climate change is a global problem that is affecting Earth’s delicate ecosystem. Many problems are present in our world today, such as starvation, flooding, heat waves, droughts and disease. These issues are likely to worsen as climate change takes its toll. In the past, the cause of this severe climate change was unknown. Today, it is known that manmade climate change is occurring. Scientists have discovered that humans have had the greatest impact on the Earth’s ecosystem. Human activities, such as burning fossil fuels and deforestation, are causing the Earth to get hotter. Although humans are not the only cause of climate change, we contribute to this world wide problem because of the actions we take, which if affecting us now and will continue to affect us in the future.

Global warming, while once viewed as an unfounded concern by the political right, has quickly grown into a global issue recognized by a growing number of people. Over the years, the effects of global warming have taken a steady toll on the planet and has reached a point where it is more than “An Inconvenience Truth” Al Gore (2006). The effects include warming oceans, the raising of atmospheric temperatures, melting ice caps, and more. Despite a mountain of evidence that global warming is real and is something that should be taken very seriously, there are still people who choose to believe that it is only a myth. In fact, it is for this very reason that the term “Global Warming” has been generally changed to “Climate Change.” Hopefully, reading

Despite the controversy that surrounds the existence of climate change, there is a high agreement among scientists that human-caused climate change in very real. Over the past two decades, surveys and studies have been done on climate change and the results have shown that the average global temperature has increased by about 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit. The sea level is also rising and heat waves are happening more frequently than before. These events could lead to an abrupt and potentially irreversible climate change but scientists do not know the tipping point for such an event. Therefore, the sooner the inhabitants of earth begin to take action against climate change, the less likely something irreversible could happen.