Climate Change Is The Effect On The Planet

According to scientific research, the average temperature of the earth has risen by between ten and twenty degrees Celsius (M.L. Weitzman, 2008). These high temperatures could well be described as a ‘recipe for disaster’, and could produce results that would be catastrophic on a global scale. What is more alarming however, is that there is already a lot of evidence of predicted results of climate change, for instance, in Australia especially, severe draughts have been common in farming areas in the last few decades, there has been an increase of intense and extreme weather events, for example floods, flash floods, tsunamis, earthquakes and tornados, almost all of the natural disasters listed have occurred for ‘unknown’ reasons in the past few years. Rises in sea water level and temperature due to higher acid levels caused by global warming, threaten the existence of species and in some areas, entire eco-systems resulting in the loss of natural biodiversity. ‘Climate change is pushing the world to the verge of environmental and economic collapse, whether global deniers want to believe it or not’ (N. Klein, 2011).

Earth’s climate system has been experiences changes during the last century. Dating back in 1859 a Swedish scientist named Svante Arrhenius was the first to claim that fossil fuel combustion eventually resulted to the contribution of global warming. According to S.M. Enzler MSc, in his article “History of the Greenhouse Effect and Global Warming”, published by Lenntech, Dr. Arrhenius’ findings were long forgotten, “At that time it was thought than human influences were insignificant compared to natural forces, such as solar activity and ocean circulation. It was also believed that the oceans were such great carbon sinks that they would automatically cancel out our pollution.” (Enzler 1.). Global Warming was just an illusion up until the mid-1900s a scientist named Gilbert Plass began experimenting with carbon dioxide which he soon concluded that adding more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere would intercept infrared radiation, that is otherwise lost to space, thus warming the earth. Dr. Plass’ conclusion is very similar to that of Dr. Arrhenius, and the reason why it was not overlooked was due to the advances in technology during Dr.Plass time, proven to have a more accurate data compared to the past. Further research was conducted to help explain the rise in the global annual mean temperature. As of 1988 it was finally acknowledged that climate was warmer than any period since 1880. I agree that

Climate change and its role in the world is a heavily debatable topic that was brought to the spotlight in the 1960s. The main controversies that surround climate change stem from four main arguments. They are “is there global warming? How much global warming is occurring? What causes global warming? And can humanity affect it?” Scientist and analysts study and answer these questions differently forming several different distinct sides to the matter. As a result three arguments and positions have formed about climate change. The three sides consist of those who refuse to believe there is any climate change occurring in the world that the change in the weather and climate are so insignificant that they are of no concern; climate change is real however it is a natural process the Earth undergoes, and climate change is real, it’s a threat, and its man made.

*Today, we as human beings are witnessing problematic issues throughout the world that are effecting mankind. Everything from racism, to world poverty, and even radicalize terrorism just to name a few. But outside of the scientific world, many of us fail to understand the long-term effects that global warming and climate change could have on us throughout the world. After observing the 2015 Paris Climate Conference, I truly did not take into account personally, how important this whole concept is. But after taking this class and researching further and further into the topic, I now understand the severity of it all. There are various reasons that exists that are pertinent towards why this topic is highly important to all of humanity. Two of these evidences lie in the severity of hurricanes, and the potential increase droughts and heat waves.

Climate change is caused through the increase of greenhouse gas emissions within Earth’s atmosphere. Through trapping sunlight, temperatures have risen over the past years thus being called climate change. However, through things like being energy efficient or changing aspects within daily life climate change can be lessened. Reducing gas emission both in peoples own life as well as world-wide is also an important response to reducing the effects of climate change and it is also important to be involved in organizations for the environment in order to help promote climate change.

Even if one doesn’t follow the climate change debate by their own free will, it’s almost impossible to avoid the discussion on climate change altogether. This is because climate change effects so many areas of daily life, which makes exposure to the discussion on climate change almost unavoidable. Recently, Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane Irma and Hurricane Maria ravaged parts of the Southern United States and the Caribbean. Many people felt that they have been hearing about or experiencing more hurricanes than ever before—or speculating that in general, hurricanes are becoming more powerful and damaging. Quickly, the spotlight fell on climate change. Does the changing climate have the capacity to alter nature’s biggest catastrophe? Does the rising temperature or changing composition of atmospheric gases have the potential to make hurricanes more intense and frequent? Climate change, which rises the temperature above the oceans, provides optimum conditions for the occurrence of more intense hurricanes.

Climate Change has evidently had a huge impact on recent natural disasters around the world. The most noteable events in recent times has been the hurricanes that hit the United States and Puerto Rico in quick succession in 2017. These great tropical cyclones were hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Jose, and Maria. But this is not the only year that was violently struck. In the year 2005, there were six major hurricanes. Katrina. Dennis, Cindy, Ophelia, Rita and Wilma. all caused chaos within the United States. All these consecutive hurricanes in such a short amount of time shows how much climate change has had an effect on national disasters, eventually through these major hurricanes.

The final area that scientists break down the effects of global warming is wild storms. Global warming is said to increase the amount of rain produced during thunderstorms which may in turn cause floods. According to Robert Britt “as the climate warms up more water will fall in the form of rain rather than snow which will cause the reservoirs to fill faster, this in turn will result in the water runoff all into spring rather than being able to bring it out throughout the summer”. In addition to heavier rainfall, hurricanes and tropical storms are greatly affected by small increases in the global temperature of the oceans. For example according to Dr. Kerry Emanuel “a 0.5 degree Celsius increase in the oceans temperature can cause the power of hurricanes in that year to at least double”. With such extreme effects of global warming why is the human

Climate is part of our everyday lives. What we experience is the global climate system. According to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, climate change is, "a change of climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity alters the composition of the atmosphere and which is in addition to natural climate variability observed over comparable time periods." (Allen, Seaman & Delascio, 2009) Australia’s climate has warmed a lot more since 1910 by the average of 0.9’C. it has been rising dramaticllay since 1950’s.the daytime temperatures have increased by 0.8’C whereas in the night time, we experience 1.1’C more heat than the people living in 1900’s. (BOM & CSIRO, 2014). In 2004 more than 234 newspaper articles have concluded that we may have, in fact, reached the tipping point for the climate change. Walker (2006) believes that this man made climate change has caused havoc on the earth’s atmosphere and the most striking of all the components is the arctic. Farthest north is the carapace of sea ice over the Arctic Ocean. South of that is the vast ice sheet that covers Greenland. And then there is the ocean conveyor belt, which originates in a small region of the Nordic seas and carries heat and salt around the world.

while the temperature variations or anomalies have also been rising since 1860 with observation values higher than model values (Houghton 3). The significance of this is that carbon dioxide, temperature fluctuations, and actual sea level temperature have all been rising, and they have a direct relationship. It shows that this is not a co-incidence. A prediction indicates that if this same trend continues, carbon dioxide will reach to 650 ppm in the year 2100 (Houghton 4). Even with the best care and reduction in carbon dioxide output, the level will still get to 450 ppm in the year 2100. The temperature will rise about 10 degrees Celsius higher if we just let carbon dioxide get to 650 ppm in the year 2100 (Houghton 4). Aside from the increase in greenhouse gasses and the temperature, Dr.Vardiman states that “if global warming is occurring then hurricane frequency should be on the rise, and polar sea ice should be melting” (Vardiman 2). In this aspect, the data shows that the hurricane frequency has increased 3% in the past 150 years in the Gulf of Alaska, and the Arctic ice has melted 5% in the past 25 years. These datasets from greenhouse gasses, temperature, hurricanes, and ice melts show that the globe is warming which implies that

Climate change is one of the defining environmental concerns facing our globe today. Certain scientific reports have shown that industrialization and deforestation spurted climatic change and triggered the melting of ice glaciers around the Arctic Ocean at a rapid rate. In 2012, the area of ice covering the Arctic Ocean was estimated to be diminished by half; the condition that was not experienced over the last 30 years. Rise in the sea levels by 15-20 centimeters, on average, are also been recorded over the last century and the rate of increase has accelerated over the last decade. Recent scientific reports suggest that melting of ice glaciers around the oceans have the potential to influence tectonic activities in many parts of the world. As ice melts and water runs off, tremendous amount of weight will be lifted off from the Earth’s crust, which causes seismic plates to slip and stimulate earthquakes. The Great Sendai Earthquake or Great Tohoku Earthquake, which occurred in north-eastern Japan on March 11, 2011, provides clear illustration for severe tectonic natural disaster. The endless creeping, slipping, locking up and jolting actions of the seismic plates of Earth’s crust resulted in 8.9 magnitude earthquake and spawned a powerful tsunami with waves up to 30 feet high. The event devastated large swaths of the Japan’s coastal region and thousands were dead in the immediate aftermath of the quake and tsunami. In addition to this, human interferences with the nature

In a world filled with seven billion people minding their own business, very few will take a second and look at the world around them and how it has been ravaged, even damaged beyond repair since our first evolutionary ancestors took their first few steps in this planet from being mere apes. Whole ecosystems, which used to flourish, are now nonexistent. Entire species of plants and animals, who used to dot the various landscapes of the world, are now nearly extinct if not already extinct. Greenhouse gases emitted from human activity has also resulted in a higher likelihood of extreme weather anomalies to occur due to the side effects of climate change on the planet (Buhaug, 2016). If drastic measures are not taken in due time,

In another matter, this is not the first time that climate change has affected the planet in the past there were many problems to the earth millions of years ago. There were five major ice ages from the longest and first scientists believe occurred was two point four to two point one billion years ago during the early Proterozoic Eon there was an ice age formed and it was the Huronian. The second ice age was the cryogenian and it has been known that it produced a snowball earth in which permanent sea ice extended to or very near the earth's equator; this period occurred from eight hundred and fifty to six hundred and thirty million years ago. The third ice age that occurred was the Andean-Saharan it occurred during the Paleozoic from fout

Climate change has been a very popular topic lately with all the crazy natural acts of destruction occurring lately. Hurricane Harvey, Irma and now Hurricane Nate. Most experts argue that the recent occurrence of tropical storms has to do with the tremendous amount of global warming within the atmosphere. I for one agree that there is a correlation between climate change and natural disasters. The outcomes of an increase in global temperatures include increased risk of drought and increased intensity of storms and tropical cyclones with higher wind speeds.

Climate change is the effect of global warming. Global warming is when the temperature of the earth is rising and this has many effects on the world we know. The greenhouse effect causes global warming. The greenhouse effect is due to gases being trapped in earths atmosphere and not being released into space beyond our atmosphere. When the gases are built up in the atmosphere the heat from the sun cannot escape and thus acts as a blanket to trap the heat and ultimately gradually heat the temperature of the entire earth. The global warming does not just effect the air temperature or weather patterns; it can also raise the temperature of the world’s oceans. Global warming is said to be the direct effect of humans. Humans are the main contributor to the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. These gases are produced from a post-industrial economy such as the United States. An increase in CO2 emissions is the leading cause of global warming. CO2 is one of the gases that is trapping the heat in the atmosphere and an increase can be due to deforestation, burning fossil fuels, production of electricity, and many more. Global warming causes the temperatures to rise which can cause an increase in the amount of glacial ice to melt and can ultimately cause the sea level to rise from excess water. Since the sea level would rise this means that land is more susceptible to be submerged underwater. Living in Florida this poses a threat. Florida is so waterlogged to begin with that even a