Global Warming And Climate Change

During the past several hundred years, civilization has made rapid progress in industries like air travel, automobiles, and energy production. These developments were made without consideration of the long-term effects that their emissions may have on the planet. Changing weather patterns are now wreaking havoc around the world, and scientists attribute this to human-caused climate change. During President Obama’s State of the Union address in 2015, he stated that, “No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change,” (“Remarks by the President”). Warming temperatures caused by anthropogenic climate change have disastrous consequences that pose a threat to humanity and the environment.

Global warming is defined as the recent increase in the world 's temperature that is believed to be caused by the increase of certain gases (such as carbon dioxide) in the atmosphere. There are many different theories on whether global warming is similar or not to climate change. Simplistically, climate change is different because climate change is defined as a change in global or regional climate patterns or, in particular, a change apparent from the mid to late 20th century onwards and attributed largely to the increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide produced by the use of fossil fuels, having been measured over long periods of time, due to the changes in Earth’s orbit and organic carbon which reflect sunlight. Global warming and climate change are not to be confused because global warming is caused mainly by anthropogenic factors like the emission of carbon dioxide gas and use of fossil fuels whereas climate change is completely natural, however, according to Milan Radovanovic, “it is clear that the anthropogenic factors dominate the increasing temperature and the natural ones have the maximum influence…” (Radovanovic). Therefore, “the contribution to global warming from natural forcings and from natural internal variability is in the range between -0.2 to 0.2 [degrees] celsius over the period 1951-2010…” (Radovanovic). Natural factors have had the most effect on global temperature in the past 59 years totaling a 0.4 degrees celsius increase in

Look around. Every day, everyone will witness some sort of carbonic emission in some form dispersing into the atmosphere. You hear enough about it on the news, whether you care or not. However, the question lingers: is it even that big of a deal? Most likely, if you are a Republican, you will say that Democrats are blowing the whole climate change situation out of the water, or that the warming of our earth is completely natural. Notice how they switched it from global warming to climate change; that is because their previous assumptions and models have not been completely accurate, right? On the other hand, if you are a Democrat, you are most likely seething over the statements you just read and want to do anything you can to prevent this possible catastrophic disaster. 97% percent of climate scientists agree that Climate Change is here and now, caused by all of us… right? Democrats are also more likely to target and blame carbon emissions on the rising temperatures. Nevertheless, William McDonough, a famous urban planner, says that targeting carbon is a purely political move. Further, carbon should be a useful resource for humans, and an imbalanced carbon cycle is to blame. In fact, McDonough claims this imbalance is the result of poor and inadequate urban designing. Are any climate change believers right? Or are Donald Trump and friends correct in pointing the finger at the problem and saying, “wrong!” First and foremost, let us explore the partisan views on the issue.

How does the rising use of fossil fuels impact the earth? The simple answer is that the earth’s temperature rises, otherwise known as global warming. Global warming then devolves into climate change. Global warming has been “proceeding at a rate that is unprecedented over decades to millennia” (“Climate Change Evidence: How Do We Know?”) because of the world’s increasing reliance on fossil fuels. World-wide natural disasters, such as Hurricane Harvey, may be correlated to an increased risk in extreme weather events due to climate change. There has been efforts to curb climate change, such as pieces of legislation like the Paris Climate Accord, but beliefs of individual leaders such as Donald Trump, who “claims to think that links between carbon emissions and climate change are ‘a hoax’” (Steadman 19), has halted the fulfillment of such agreements between states. If there is not effective efforts to slow the emission rate, the earth will face devastating consequences. Therefore, the leaders of countries across the world must work together to develop a solution to slow climate change, or else the future will be disastrous.

It is ideal to focus on the primary causes of climate change with the aim of understanding the influence or implication on the growth and development of the planet earth. This paper seeks to unveil the major or primary causes in relation to climate change. This is through evaluation of natural and artificial events/activities with massive implication on climate thus changes in the climatic conditions within the modern society. I have chosen this topic because of its sensitivity to the growth and development of the humanity. Modern society associates itself with constant debates on the concept of global warming. This is a reflection of the significance of the topic of the research with reference to the examination of the primary causes of climate change. It is ideal to understand the primary causes of climate change with the aim of adopting and implementing various critical issues in relation to minimization of the implications on the growth and development of the human beings. This research topic is necessary in evaluation of the impacts of climate changes, examination of various ways to minimize the effects, and provision of adequate security and safety to human beings, plants, and animals on the planet earth. Human activities such as industrialization, agriculture, deforestation, and coal burning are main causes of climate change.

The global climate is predicted to change rapidly over the next century and many environmental changes will happen (Houghton et al., 2001). The increasing of atmospheric CO2 concentration is the main reason for climate change phenomenon (IPCC Climate Change, 2007). As a result for increased atmospheric CO2, global surface temperatures are predicted to increase between 1.8 and 3.6 1C by the year 2100 (IPCC Climate Change, 2007). The increased temperature, will lead to soil water content decrease in some areas (Le Houerou, 1996). Agriculture is one of the most important sector for the survival of human life is highly affected by climate change (Deryng et al., 2014). Lobell and Field (2007), demonstrated a decrease in maize yields 8.3 % per 1 C rise, which improve the harmful effects of temperatures increases. Also the rising temperatures increase the rate of phenological development, leading to a smaller plant and less productivity due to life cycle shortage. In fact abiotic and biotic stress is a serious condition causing major problem for crop productivity. About 20 % of cultivable and at least half of irrigated lands around the world are severely affected by environmental stresses. However, in these conditions, there are plant populations successfully adapted and evolutionarily different in their strategy of stress tolerance (Choudhary et al., 2016). One of the most vulnerable stages of plant development to temperature stress is the pollination phase because of pollen’s

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The greater Himalayas hold the largest mass of ice outside Polar Regions and are the source of the ten largest rivers in Asia. Rapid reduction in the volume of Himalayan glaciers due to climate change is occurring, (Wilkes & Eriksson, 2009). With a highly heterogeneous geography, the region has a great climatic variability and forms a barrier to atmospheric circulation for the summer monsoon and winter westerlies. The regions climatic zones contain a rich diversity of species and ecosystems that exist along a pronounced humidity gradient, (Wilkes & Eriksson, 2009). Vegetation changes from subtropical semi desert and thorn steppe formation in the northwest to tropical evergreen rainforests in the southeastern Himalayas, (Wilkes & Eriksson, 2009). Climate change impacts are already occurring in the Greater Himalayas, the most widely reported effect is the rapid reduction of glaciers, which has implications of future downstream water supplies, (Wilkes & Eriksson, 2009). The Himalayas as a whole are very sensitive to global climate change. Progressive increases in warming at high elevations are occurring at approximately three times the global average, (Wilkes & Eriksson, 2009). The intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has projected that average annual mean warming will be about three degrees warmer by 2050 and about five degrees warmer in 2080 over the Asian land mass, (Wilkes & Eriksson, 2009). Given that current discussions about dangerous climate change are

Humanity have become incognizant of the term ‘Global warming’, which has become increasingly popular over the past few years, due to the fact that extremists and alarmists over exaggerate scientific facts to utilize in their own favour. Its definition is “The hypothesis that Earth’s atmosphere is warming because of the relinquishment of ‘Poisonous gases’, such as carbon dioxide”. Contrary to popular credence, climate change and ecumenical warming does not subsist. Carbon Dioxide is far from being a poisonous gas that causes chaos on the earth 's environment, CO2 is controvertibly the Earth 's greatest asset in that numerous flora greatly benefits from incremented levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Environmental alarmists, eminent politicians and among them environmentalist journalists have an engender that if humans do not adhere to their radical agenda, then civilization will be threatened by environmental consequences from Global Warming. Decades of scientific studies have shown no consequential elevate in the average temperature of the earth for over 18 years (Bolt, 2015). Further investigation in the inceptions of climate change and global warming has shown that. The arctic ice, which for years has been described as “lost” to future generations has incremented, not melted (BBC, 2015), at an inconceivable rate of over 50% in the past 6 years. Because of farfetched incriminations from extremists and alarmists, our modern society has become incognizant of the scientific

Earth’s climate has been changed for hundreds of year dating back to the beginning of man to the ice age and today, and with that change came scientists who have been keeping track and gathering data on these changes in the climate. The climate is the source of life it provides a secure environment setting for life forms to thrive without a proper climatic setting life would begin to dwindle and eventually all life forms would go extinct. But why is the climate so important moreover exactly what is it that poses a threat to all life forms? Well to answer that question, the climate is the weather that makes up a certain environment. It is important because it is the main factor that aid in creating a natural habitat suitable for all

Global warming/climate change has been a big issue of discussion in my generation. Global warming is talked about on the news, in the newspapers, in magazines, and every other kind of social media. Today’s generation heard about global warming right out of the womb all the way to present day. I personally do believe in global warming. Is that because of the fact I was brought up in the time of the world where you hear about it basically everyday, I don’t know; it’s a good possibility. During the 19 years that I have been on Earth I have experience all time record heat waves to all time record cold temperatures. I have seen some of the world’s worst earthquakes, hurricanes, tornados, tropical storms, and tsunami. When watching the news I see towns/cities underwater from storms and houses demolished by storms. I grew up on the coast down the street from Plum Island, which is located in Massachusetts and every year the oceans take at least one house. The little island is slowly disappearing and sometime in the near future is most likely wont be there anymore. Global warming/ climate change must be the cause for this extreme weather that has been hitting the world for the 19 years that I have been alive.

The study of the distribution of weather over periods of time is called climate change. This period of time may be more than a decade of length. To perform studies on climate change is very important for increasing yields and for insuring the crops for the farmers of the modern day. These studies were used historically too and have helped the agricultural community to grow crops over the same land decade after decade. At present the earth’s average temperature continues to increase. One reason for this is Global warming. There are many negative effects of global warming which include; icecaps melting, warming of the earth’s atmosphere. Human activities do contribute to climate changes in the Earth’s atmosphere in the amounts of aerosols, greenhouse gases, and cloudiness. The biggest known contribution comes from the burning of fossil fuels, which release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Human impacts on climate during our current era far exceed that due to the known changes in natural processes like volcanic eruptions and solar changes.

For the past decades Climate change/ global warming has gained the attention of scientist because of the studies and experiments show how climate change can have catastrophically impacts in our planet and that we are starting to see today. Global climate change is a phenomenon caused by greenhouse gases trapped in the atmosphere which produce enormous effects on the earth’s organisms, nature and all habitats. By burning fossil fuels and by cutting forests known as deforestation humans contribute to global warming. Burning fossil fuels causes more greenhouse gases to build up in the atmosphere. Fossil fuels such as oil, coal and natural gas are high in carbon and, when burned, produce major amounts of carbon dioxide. A single gallon of

When it comes to the phenomenon of global warming, we are not talking about the temperature of the hot summer this year than last year, but we are talking about climate change, the major changes affecting the environment, atmosphere and climate in general. Climate change is affecting ecosystems on earth and directly impacts the daily lives of people. The warming of the global climate can cause serious consequences. The ecosystem is destroyed. Climate change and carbon dioxide are increasing challenges of our ecosystem. The consequences of such shortages of fresh water, polluted air, energy and fuel scarcity, and health issues related not only affects our lives but also the problem of birth. Climate change causes the loss of biodiversity. Earth 's temperature is currently making the species disappeared or are in danger of extinction. About 50% of animal and plant species would face the risk of extinction if temperatures in 2050 increased from 1.1 Earth to 6.4 ° C again. This loss is due to loss of habitat for fallow land, deforestation and warmer sea water. The biologists found that there were some animals migrated to the poles to habitat suitable temperature. For example, the red fox, previously they often live in North America, it has moved up to the Arctic. Man is not outside influence. Condition wild land and rising sea levels threaten our habitat. And while plants and animals lost synonymous with food, fuel and our income are gone. The climate change also causes the war

All these changes tend to contribute to reduce agricultural productivity resulting in either increased prices or food shortages. While other impacts of climate change include increased forest fires due to the extended dry period, and increase pest and diseases of crops, livestock and human population (LFP, 2010). Thus, the unparalleled impacts of climate change extended to effects on ecosystem, health, food production, water resources, agriculture and livelihood (IPCCC, 2001). With developing countries like Nepal on the frontline, climate change puts and extra burden on the existing social and economic challenges that they already face (UNFCCC, 2007).