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Essay about Environment: What’s really going on?

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What’s really going on?

For the past few many people have wonder, or become more aware of our planet’s changes and the way it has been affecting us all along. Some people take this very serious, but others are not taking the warnings that our Earth, our home, has given us. There has been a lot of research over the past couple of decades to determine the effect of the many unusual patterns of some natural “disasters”. There has been a lot of confusion based on the results of the many scientists that have tried to work out this ongoing process. This confusion is due to the different data results of each investigation. Some scientist have predicted that the worst is coming just around the corner. That it is a fact that catastrophes will …show more content…

This is all tied up on how it affects us. It’s a long lasting relationship between man and the Earth. If something affects the Earth, then it will have an effect on us, and the same will happen if it occurs to us first. However, climate shifts can be recorded in some parts of the globe, not all at once like Robert B. Gagosian, President and Director of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, said: Climate shifts do not necessarily have universal, global effects. They can generate a counterintuitive scenario: Even as the earth as a whole continues to warm gradually, large regions may experience a precipitous and disruptive shift into colder climates.(Gagosian)
In other words, even if people can not detect one, there might be a climate change going on without being perceived. One perfect example of this kind of shifts is during the time that dentists love the most, Halloween. This is a personal experience that I am sure many other people have noticed too. When I used to trick-or-treat when I was a lot younger which was about 10 years ago, I remember that on top of my costume I would have to carry a sweater that my mother would force me to wear because it was really cold, and I could get extremely sick. A few years after, my mother did not remind me to wear the sweater because she did not have to. The weather had really changed over the years. Those nights were still hot like any ordinary summer’s day, and I

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