Global Warming And The Environment

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

Global Warming and climate change have effected pop culture since the late twentieth century. Human pollution and consumption began in the eighteenth century due to the industrial revolution (Richard Smith). There is a huge difference in what scientists have studied and what is out in pop culture. "Eyes Wide Open,” by Gotye is a wakeup call to the world about human pollution and consumption, and how humanity knowingly is causing global warming without the blink of an eye. Since the late nineteenth century, the world has become aware of global warming but instead of changing the ways of living to help the planet, humanity began the digital revolution. In a world of disbelief, Gotye’s song and video, “Eyes Wide Open,” forces the viewer to visualize the reality of what will come of earth due to human consumption and pollution. “Eyes Wide Open,” promotes a change in the way the world is living through piercing visuals, allusions, tone, and powerful lyrics.

Climate change; the two words that have sparked controversy across the media in recent decades, has been highlighted as one of the greatest environmental threat to humanity in the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). With the current warming of the climate considered as “unequivocal”, the report has brought back the issue of climate change and global warming to the forefront of public and political debate, asking the question: is climate change real and should we really care?

The Average temperature of the Earth have increased by 1.4 °F over the past 100 years, and it is expected to increase approximately another 2 to 11.5 °F over the next century. Little changes in the average temperature of the Earth can result into big and possibly to dangerous shifts in climate and weather. Rising temperatures around the world have been accompanied by differences in weather and climate. A lot of places have already seen changes in rainfall which resulted in an increase in floods, droughts, or intense rain, as well as more continual and dangerous heat waves. The Earth’s oceans and glaciers have also experienced some great changes - oceans are warming and becoming more acidic, ice caps are melting, and sea levels are rising. As these and other changes become more pronounced in the coming decades, they will likely present challenges to our society and our environment.

There are two terms that many people have been concerned about for many years now, which some people firmly believe will be the downfall of the Earth’s survival. Those terms are global warming and climate change. Although both terms are used interchangeably by some, they cover two different subjects that go hand in hand. There is extensive research done on both terms, with plenty of scientific evidence proving that both are occurring and are major problems. However, there is still an uncanny amount of people who claim that climate change and global warming is not real, and their reasoning is usually either unscientific or at times completely unreasonable. Their reasons are usually political, religious, or due to some form of being misinformed. This skepticism is a major problem because global warming is a threat and must be dealt with.

Climate change and global warming are terms often tossed around in common parlance by non-scientists in the western world as having a singular meaning: that the planet is warming up, that humans may (or may not) have caused it; that something must be done at once. Climate change is presented and discussed as a single phenomenon, disingenuous to its multifaceted nature. Complicated and sometimes seemingly random, climate change is both chaotic and complex, characterized by nonlinearity, feedback loops and emergent phenomena. Rind (1999) defines a complex system as one where there are “multiple interactions between many different components.” Earth’s climate is the same way: clouds, wind, precipitation, sunlight and geography—each affect climate, but each also affects the other, and so forth—interactions that form an intricate latticework of mutual dependency.

There is only a certain limit to which the world may forgive the atrocities of man that cover the sky in darkness and infection. Climate change is the result of the increasing temperature of the earth that can breed very harmful effects to wildlife habitats, weather patterns, and weather intensity. The increasing frequency of ice cap depletion is creating the factors that lead to greater, more frequent storms and flood damage. The melting of the ice caps also increases the severity of wildfires that threatens homes, habitats, and lives. The main cause of climate change is the burning of resources such as coal, oil, and gas that emits harmful pollutants into the air. However, some companies are hesitant to pursue any change to their process which slows any effort to lower pollution emission. Ultimately, companies should make an agreement with government officials to integrate green technology, such as biodegradable materials, hydroelectric power, wind power and solar power, into the energy sector, changing the conventional energy sources harmful to the environment.

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 rate of increase of the global sea level has doubled the rate of the last century in the last 10 years.

At this point, its very hard to argue against the harsh process of climate change and our impact, as human beings, in facilitating this process. This seems to be a time to take action immediately to protect against the detrimental eventualities of climate change, since our planet depends on it. Unfortunately, the movement to help protect environment is diligently batted down by the hands of the Polluter Industrial Complex. The polluter industrial complex is a collection of politicians, corporations, lobbyist, etc. dedicated to efforts that would undermine the environmentalist movement. For someone looking at this situation from an environmentalist point of view, this is crazy. Empirical scientific research has shown that the

David Attenborough (an English broadcaster and naturalist) once said, “[t]here is no question that climate change is happening; the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.” Climate change is a pending issue waiting to be addressed and resolved by society as a whole before it is too late. Statistics show that the United States contains only 5 percent of the world 's population, but contributes 22 percent of the world 's carbon emissions. During the 21st century, global warming is expected to continue and climate changes are likely to increase, including: changes in temperature, precipitation, snow and ice, ocean level, and ocean acidity. The Kyoto Protocol, protocol aiming to reduce the collective greenhouse gas

Since our earliest adaptations, our species has always been dependent on this Earth. Long before we raised our bows and became hunters, our gathering instincts lead us to drink from rivers, collect berries, and plant seeds. We asked for nutrients, and so the Earth provided. Through hundreds of years, however, we have rapidly increased our planet 's destruction, and so when we ask for the same nourishment, the Earth had a different answer. Instead of the plains of grass, and springs of fresh water that previously greeted us, we have become accustomed to the polluted wastelands that surround us in our day to day lives. The fact of the matter is: by killing our planet, we have begun to kill ourselves as well.

Global warming is a serious issue caused primarily by human activity that is having a significant negative effect on the environment and by extension human society. If it is not stopped now, it will have detrimental effects on the earth’s survival.

Climate change and global warming has been warned to no longer be viewed lightly. These changes are considered to be one of the biggest threats that being faced by nature and humanity today. According to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), climate change can be defined as the changes of climate which is attributed either directly or indirectly towards human activities which also able to change the composition of the global atmosphere. As an addition to this matter, the natural climate changes seemed to change over comparable period of time.