Abstract
This paper with speak about global warming and the changes that will affect the earth and the people in it. It will also mention mitigation and strategies that are for global warming. I believe that the Earth’s temperature is going rise for a long time to come, due to the chemical that we daily. If things are done to correct the way we use our daily chemicals like use more organically made household product, and recycle more we could slowly curve the global warming issue.
Natural v. Anthropogenic Climate Changes
For years, global warming has been occurring but, with the help of humans it is increasing. There are two types of climate change that is credit to global warming. They are Anthropogenic and Natural climate change. Anthropogenic
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These types of pollutions are oil/fuel spills, emissions from industries and manufactures, burning fossil fuels, and using household and farming chemicals. Examples of the farming chemicals would be crop dusting chemicals and pesticides that are put in the dirt of vegetables.
Is Global Warming Taking Place Now?
Global warming is taking place now, with temperatures rising it is affecting places that the ice is stable. With the ice becoming thinner this can affect the way the animals hunt and survive for example the polar bear. Per Kevin McGwin of the Artic Journal, in Greenland dog-sledging is severely impacted because of the reduction in the number of days that coastal water is frozen. (McGwinn, K. (2014). Global Warming. Artic Journal. Retrieved March 5, 2017).
The use of fossil fuels and coal is keeping our air polluted. Finding better ways of using energy will help us to improve our climate. I have noticed that that last three winter month were warmer than they would normally be. I live in Richmond VA, and the past couple of day were in the late seventies feeling like summer already. It has me wondering since winter moved out so fast if this coming summer going to be hotter.
Mitigation
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There are examples of mitigation strategies are clean coal technology and carbon sequestration. Clean coal technology is when special pollution control equipment is connected for a coal plan which grabs all the carbon dioxide released by power making. The benefits of clean coal technology are clean combustion, the reduction carbon particle emissions and the reduction of net of CO2 emissions. Carbon taxing is a tax put in place on carbon content of fuels. This would be good for the trade side of the fuels business. Taxing on fuels depending in the carbon content, making money on the carbon contents of
Basically, this article is about the climate change, which is having a general tendency of going up. It can be divided into three parts. In the first part, it presents a prediction that any summer between 2061 and 2080 will be warmer than the hottest record, and it’s going to affect around 80 percent of the world’s land area, including Antarctica. And the second part is a description of how the group of scientists gets this prediction. By constructing simulation models, those scientists establish a large range of temperature that will possibly occur in the future. The third part propose that reducing greenhouse emission would decrease the possibility of the future summer breaking the record, especially in some areas.
Global Warming is an ongoing problem in the world which causes the average global temperature to increase near the earth surface. This has affected many animals, especially the polar
Global warming has disrupting the natural Arctic wildlife patterns by all the ice is melting right
The global warming is a phenomenon happening all over the earth, there are several causes, but most are a result of human activity. The graph in image 1 shows that a significant increase in the climate temperature in the mid-20th century, somewhere between 1900 and 1950. The industrial revolution happened between the years 1820 and 1840, although great improvements in technology were achieved in the 1900 's. The increasing temperatures since the industrial revolution work as a proof that global warming is a direct effect of human activity. As image 1 shows before the 20th century the variations in the earth 's climate were minimal, except for that of the ice age. Although the industrial revolution detonated the rising temperature due to the use of new chemicals, this change is not evident until it surpasses the previously registered temperatures in the mid-1900 's. Science and technology have improved in the last 200 years, most devices used to measure changes in temperatures were just developed about 150 years ago, so there is not much information of the temperatures before that (Vallis). Nevertheless, scientists have been able to estimate the earth 's temperature from millions of years ago by studding trees, fossils, sediments and water temperatures. Recent studies have proved how many man-made chemicals and activities have contributed to the climate change, affecting the natural processes in the earth like the
The North pole is one of the main places affected by global warming . The Arctic and the Antarctica are both vulnerable to the climate that has changed overtime. The ice caps have promptly melted overtime that they are now differently than they were. (The Arctic ice cap is less than ten feet thick on average). The ice are spread apart floating in the ocean making it hard for animals such as the polar bear to travel one place to another. This creatures must now swim through long distances of waters some becoming exhausted and drowning before reaching to the next
Hence the rising numbers and intensity of yearly heat waves across the world. {Why is this a problem}…. nature’s processes for removing CO2 are relatively slow, a large portion of the CO2 already emitted will remain in the atmosphere for hundreds of years to come, setting our planet on a warming cycle from which ecological impacts are inevitable. Human activity—especially the burning of fossil fuels for energy—is the primary cause of global warming. In the past 300 years, industrial, economic, and social activity has released more than 1.5 trillion tons of CO2 and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Burning coal is also a leading cause of smog, acid rain, and toxic air pollution. Some emissions can be significantly reduced with readily available pollution controls, but most U.S. coal plants have not installed these technologies. The main legislation that applies to air pollution is the Clean Air Act (CAA). Under the CAA the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency set limits on the amount of certain pollutants that can be released into the air. By using technology that either traps the pollutants before they are released into the air or that changes them into less harmful pollutants, the amount of air pollution can be controlled. If not then, burning greater amounts of coal would release greater quantities of greenhouse gasses. The failed legislation that momentarily existed in the United States applied to global warming, thus displaying that there are currently no blueprints to seize or even slow the increase of our coal use that contributes significantly to global warming and causes major environmental problems. In 2013, the environmental justice groups sue EPA for Failure to Enforce Clean Air
The most well-known climate change must is the global warming due to the inclination of greenhouse gas in atmosphere, which is a common issue for all human beings and ling creatures. For examples, the melting of arctic glaciers, one of the most critical consequences of global warming, has caused severe damage to the species diversity of the living creatures of entire Arctic Circle. Polar bears and seals are two of most influenced living creatures in Arctic Circle since their habitats have been highly eliminated and invasive creatures have severely negative influences on their life. Now, although many countries have acted to rescue polar bears and seals, but scientists predicted that their situation would continuously worsen in the future.
Global warming is causing possible extinction in the Antarctic ocean by melting all the ice its raising water levels causing fishing grounds to flow colder water that other species may not be used to and can affect them badly, and leaving seals the live on the ice more of chance
Other species are being affected by this global warming. Especially, the animals that survive on ice like polar bears. Impacts of global warming include the melting of ice in the Antarctic; this is due to the rising temperature of the ocean surrounding the ice which then causes melting. However, some people argue that the ice caps are growing rather than shrinking so they completely devalue the issue of global warming. This is not necessarily true, since the heat from the ocean causes the ice to melt but the melted ice (turned into fresh water) also freezes immediately after it melts. So it is still an issue that is supposed to keep an eye on. The ecological impacts of ice melting would be the reduction of small ice caps which polar bears land
Anthropogenic climate change occurs due to something that is caused by humanity. One example of this is fossil fuels, the carbon dioxide is higher than in the previous centuries due to humans burning fuel like coal for energy. As with emissions of methane along with greenhouses rising those affects also add to change of climate. The second example of anthropogenic climate changes is due to agriculture. Before humans began burning fuels for energy climate change occurred by deforestation, agriculture and also irrigation. The change happened as people had reduced vegetation ground cover, which changes how sunlight may be reflected and absorbed. Natural climate change occurs due to events such as volcanoes eruption and the ash being spread everywhere. One example for natural climate change is solar energy, there are fluctuations which occur over time and predicts some pattern for change. Another example of natural climate change is from earth itself, the orbiting from the earth around the sun will alter at different positions which has an effect of what level of energy earth gets. How these changes are similar they both alter changes to the climate and create side effects which cause natural disasters and health issues for humans. How
The melting ice caps are having a dramatic affect on the polar regions of the earth. For example, the average temperature in the Arctic is rising twice as fast than the rest of the world (nrdc.org). The once prominent ice is now melting at a dramatic speed, which is affecting native people, wildlife, and plants. When the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf splintered, the freshwater lake that it surrounded drained into the ocean, along with the ecosystem that inhabited it. Polar bears, whales, walrus and seals are changing their feeding and migration patterns, making it harder for native people to hunt them (nrdc.org). Because of the flooding, entire villages will be uprooted order to avoid being swamped. Also, the Arctic coastlines are beginning to move as well. The melting ice caps are threatening the native peoples’ cultural identity and their very survival. Ice-dependant animals, such as walruses and ring seals will be greatly affected by the melting ice caps (treehugger.com). They have fewer places to rest on, as well as fewer places to hunt. If the ice caps keep melting, their lives will become in great danger. The melting ice caps are not only affecting the Polar Regions, but they are also affecting the rest of the world as well in the form of rising ocean levels.
Thus, this article gave me a sufficient amount of information to explain how furiously global warming will change the world. After reading the article, I received the impression that the author, Denchak, was not trying to frighten people, but rather show the importance of spreading the word about the dangers of global warming. The author attached their claims with facts, which tells me they are not a biased writer. They include many issues that stem from global warming, comprising rising sea levels, forest fires and polluted air to name a few. The reaction I had was that no one can escape the effects of global warming. As a consequence, myself, and many others, will suffer greatly due to the lack of concern for the effects of global
Researches reveal that natural events as well as human related activities contribute to changes in average global temperatures. AtKisson affirms that global warming is basically a result of increased emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. This atmospheric carbon dioxide (co2) comes from anthropogenic (caused by humans) sources. The concentration of greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, nitrous gases, and methane in the atmosphere has increased evidently due to human activities since 1800. NASA’s article adds:
I watched in the TV in last years about a lot of phenomena happened by global warming like, increasing the temperature degrees, and melting the snow mountains around the word. However, global warming has played a major role in changing the weather all over the world. The climate change all over the world is a proof that the weather conditions are changing. Global warming has made some of the hottest land cold now and the countries that never had a summer in millenniums are now having sunlight regularly. These are the basic changes that signify that global warming is affecting the whole world. Global climate change is a procedure which is - according to the climate studies - a rapid change in the climate of some countries. The weather of some countries is changing and the climate has changed the pattern which is known as a global climate change. The issue of global warming is very complicated and exceptionally serious, having affected the whole planet over the last decades, it cannot be improved by one effective solution; however, the situation can still be ameliorated through different approaches combined together, such as green transportation, exploring nuclear power, managing forests and agriculture, and phasing out fossil fuel electricity. In this research paper, I will talk about the causes and effects of global warning, the risk of global warming, and finally a few solutions for this epidemic.
Climate change could be described as any process that causes adjustment to climate system be it a volcanic eruption to a change in the solar activity. Today, however, the phrase is most often used as climate change caused by humans. Climate change is also used commonly with another phrase – "global warming" – reflecting scientific observations of strong warming trends over the past century or so. Indicators like rising sea levels, retreating snow cover and glaciers, longer growing seasons and shifting wildlife has alarmed scientific community unanimously agreeing that the earth has warmed in the last century. Experts however are of the opinion that climate change is a more accurate phrase than global warming as the latter is just one component affecting the larger climate systems of the earth.