Global Warming And The Greenhouse Gases

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

“The Greenhouse Effect” or “Greenhouse gases” have become somewhat of scary concepts in relation to climate change. In fact, without the Greenhouse effect, the average temperature of the Earth would be 5F rather than the current average at 59F. Greenhouse gases are composed mostly of water vapor, but also carbon dioxide, methane, and certain types of clouds. These gases lie in the troposphere of the atmosphere and allows the shortwave radiation of the sun to pass through the atmosphere and warm the Earth’s surface as energy is absorbed, while the longwave radiation is delayed from being transmitted back into space through greenhouse gases. The waves are absorbed by greenhouse gases and bounced back to the Earth’s surface, conserving

For many years there were discussions about global warming, whether it is true or false. Is there evidence to prove that global warming has impacted the climate due to the rise in the earth’s temperature? Climate change is a problem that is worldwide that should be reviewed. The rise in the earth’s temperature has caused some impact to the weather and climate changes to many places worldwide. This rise in temperature has the potential of causing drastic changes to the earth in many ways. It is time to view the global warming concerns and determine if the information and finding have impacted the climate and the weather. This paper will view some of the causes, similarities, and solution of global warming today..

Many people know that global warming is an issue in today’s world because news media and politicians always talk about global warming and the greenhouse gasses. It seems like an issue that is not going to go away, and it is going to stick around for some time. As early as in 2006, Al Gore, the former vice-president of the United States, said that the burning of the fossil fuels was one of the reasons that increased the amount of carbon dioxide, and he said that if carbon dioxide could melt the polar caps and raise sea levels if it was left uncontrolled (Vardiman 1). However, there are also those who do not believe in global warming and thinks that it is a myth. For example, the fourth IPCC assessment report found that the rise in

Increasing scientific confidence in estimates of the effects of climate change has recently been catapulted into mainstream media which has forced many to confront the subject of global warming and climate change. A decade ago the subject of global warming was not as widely accepted by the scientific community as it is today. Now, due to recent advances in technology, most scientists agree that climate change and the effects humans are having on it is indeed scientific fact. A different approach has been used, compared to the past, to investigate the small differences in land and sea temperatures. The results have led most scientists to conclude that climate change has significantly increased over the past 200 years. This conclusion was reached based on data collected over 10,000+ years and comparing it to the average normal temperature rise and fall between the centuries and millenniums.

Climate Path is an incubator that focuses on identifying and piloting approaches for conservation and climate change. One of the customer segments that this company focuses on are Individuals. These are men and women with a strong sense of helping the community and making a big impact on environmental conservation. Starting with the value proposition is important mentioning jobs, pains and gains (benefits) and for this customer segment it is possible to identify two types of jobs: functional and social.

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 are so many issues going on in the world today that experts state it is due to climate change. Climate change is a global issue that effects the entire world and everyone should be interested in knowing more about it. Some common issues attributed to climate change are temperature records being broken, storms being stronger, more frequent or happening in places where it never happened before, flooding, and droughts etc.…. The largest contribution to climate change is from human beings performing activities that make life easier or more comfortable in the world we live in. Past and

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.

Despite mounting evidence and countless warnings, politicians around the world have still failed to address climate change. We need stronger climate leadership, to be sure, but instead of waiting for heroes to save us, maybe we can all help out and do some of the work ourselves?

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

For various reasons I believe that global warming and climate change issues are perhaps the greatest threats to our planet. Greenhouse gases are accumulating in Earth 's atmosphere as a result of human activities, causing surface air temperatures and subsurface ocean temperatures to rise. Some people may disagree thinking global warming is a natural cycle. However, a common misunderstanding of the climate change equilibrium is the earth doesn’t just warm up as a result of a natural phenomenon, the earth warms up because it is forced to. Also influential businesses and governments have been against the idea of global warming, afraid that tackling climate change is going to be too costly because energy security is already a growing concern for rich nations. Though action will be cheaper than inaction, which could result in economic, environmental and even health benefits. Finally, the most important reason is rapid global warming can affect an ecosystems chance to adapt naturally. Ocean biodiversity is already being affected, as are other parts of the ecosystem.

Global warming and the environment are two topics that have become more and more relevant in today’s discussions. With the help of political figures such as Al Gore and the outreach of charities for help such as the World Wildlife Fund, American citizens have become more aware of their impact on the environment and the effects they have on the Earth. Not only is the United States concerned with these changes, countries such as England, Australia and Canada are joining in on trying to limit the causes. Global warming is an international phenomenon that was brought on by humans, has caused environmental and economic changes, and has spurred controversy between people and nations.