Global Warming Case Study

Every year the average American produces over 22 metric tons of CO2 living a normal life (“What is Carbon Neutrality,” 2008); and the United States as a whole produces 6,049,435 metric tons of CO2 yearly (“List of Countries by CO2 Emissions,” 2010). This disturbing figure is the main cause of global warming and we have yet to take responsibility for our actions. There are many different theories of what has caused global warming and the answer is mankind. Humans are the cause of global warming because of pollution, over population, and deforestation.

“The Earth has cancer and the cancer is man.” This contentious quote was said by Mihaljo Mesarovic and Eduard Pestel, the two authors who wrote the book Mankind at a Turning Point. In this book Mihaljo and Eduard talk about how our actions as mankind are killing, spoiling, and taking for granted the Earth that we are given. Some people think that the heating of Earth is natural and is inevitable no matter what mankind has to do with it. Whether man is affecting the warmth of earth, or if it is just a natural ongoing process is an open-ended and continuous argument. Because of its reoccurring and destructive circumstances the Greenhouse Effect has become a dilemma that is being researched and worked against amongst the world.

"Global Warming": Global Warming is not a conqueror to kneel before- but a challenge to rise to. A challenge we must rise to.

You may have heard people talking about how the weather is very different today than it was ten years ago. You may have noticed changes in the weather yourself. The earth's climate has changed many times over millions of years. And you may have heard about Global Warming. You may ask what Global Warming is. I remember the first time I ever saw and heard about Global Warming when I was just a little girl. I was watching the TV and a commercial came on, it was a cartoon with two kids and an adult. They were in the park enjoying the day. The adult started talking about Global Warming, the kids didn’t know what he was talking about, so he fast forward the time and showed them what the earth is going to look like when they are

The majority within this case agreed that the state of Massachusetts does, in fact, have standing. In the opinion written by Justice Stevens, it was held that due to its "stake in protecting its quasi-sovereign interests" as a state, had standing to sue the EPA over potential damage caused to its territory by global warming. Stevens also touched on the requirements for standing, injury, causation, and redressability, as I have talked about earlier. In terms of the injury aspect, he stated that sea level rise has already had an effect on the state and will continue to be harmful. As for causation, he stated that the EPA’s refusal to acknowledge the relationship between greenhouse gasses and climate and more so the refusal to regulate it was

Even though many countries worldwide have pledged to stop adding more CO2 to the atmosphere, global climate change is inevitable and temperatures will surely rise after 200 years of intense pollution

Today carbon emissions are the highest they have been in the world since the industrial revolution and if we don't change, we could destroy whole ecosystems. According to recent studies the united states is the leading producer of carbon emissions in the world. We need to address the issue and start a cause for change before everything is damaged.

Action to sharply reduce our global warming emissions can greatly curtail the costs of climate change, especially over the longer term. For example, climate action can help numerous businesses that are vulnerable to a changing climate, from maple sugaring in the Northeast and skiing in Colorado to vital energy and transportation companies that depend on offshore oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico and shipping on the Great Lakes.

The United States produces 25% of the global warming caused by pollution globally, yet only make up approximately 5% of the global population (Singh and Purohit 118). There comes a point where people must hold themselves accountable for global change. With traitorous weather, melting ice and an increasing gap in the ozone, the world doesn’t have much time before serious permanent damage occurs. Human caused emissions and the general usage of fossil fuels causes important effects in the climate and environment. Why humans are behind climate change, climate change’s effect on nature, and the effect on humans will be delved

Hurricane Katrina, hit our shores in 2005. As Al Gore, former Vice President and long time Environmentalist, points out in his book An Inconvenient Truth, “Hurricane Katrina caused approximately $60 billion in insured losses” (Gore 102). A further impact on the world economy would concentrate in the UK who will be heavily affected by the melting of glaciers, whose “annual flood losses alone could increase from 0.1% of GDP today to 0.2-0.4% of GDP once the increase in global average temperatures reaches 3 or 4 degrees Celsius” (Stern viii).

Within the last fifty years, global temperature has increased significantly faster than the past 650,000 years. In the next one hundred years, the global temperature is supposed to rise by three to nine degrees. This may not seem like such a big change however, with a rise in temperature, many negative consequences will being to show. Some of these consequences include but are not limited to destroying the O-zone, increase in disease, powerful weather disasters, rising sea levels, and overall decrease in health for all things living on Earth. If people do not become informed by the consequences of what they do every day, humans may no longer have a planet to call home.

Carbon dioxide is the greenhouse most commonly emitted by human activities. While it is the least potent greenhouse gas in terms of global warming potential, CO2 is considered to be the greenhouse gas of greatest concern due to its long half-life and abundance in the atmosphere (Kahn, 2016). The current level in the atmosphere is 406ppm, the highest it has been in recorded human history (Overview of Greenhouse Gases, 2017). In an effort to mitigate the effects of global warming from a more economic perspective, market-based instruments are an appealing response to address the market failure of the negative externality of pollution. Levying a carbon tax is a promising method for limiting emissions; however, there exists challenges and its

For many people, global warming just means that the Earth is getting warmer. What they don’t realize is that global warming is so much more than that. No matter how you call it, “global warming” or “climate disruption”, its effects are all the same. Rising sea levels, wildfires, droughts, and storms are all results of these rising temperatures. And if humans keep pumping large amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, these natural disasters will be just the first of many.

As the idea of global warming becomes a more avidly discussed topic, we wanted to determine the truth on whether it is actually occurring. Therefore, we decided to complete a study where researchers analyzed the average minimum, average maximum, and average mean temperatures from the years 1948 to 2017, a period of 69 years. In each of the graphs constructed, there is a positive correlation between average temperature and years, meaning that as the years increased so did the temperatures.

Oil majors are caught in a dilemma between being reactive or proactive in facing the rising urgency of climate change mitigation. Action on global warming mandates leaves oil companies no choice but to divest their assets in the carbon-intensive oil industry and shift their interest to low-carbon energy portfolios, their corporate strategies will have to either gamble on maximizing short-term profits in oil production while facing increasing climate change risks, or adapt their strategies in response to such risks and gain the advantage of a head start in low-carbon economy. This study examines an array of drivers in an attempt to model oil majors’ behaviour in addressing climate change, and what incentives that would trigger a shift in their interest towards a greener energy portfolio. In doing so, the study creates synthesis for each of these factors in case-specific situations for a number of the biggest oil majors. These factors include internal, regional and economic drivers that are examined in literature historically, as well as a contemporary perspective on surfacing challenges such as the declining Energy Return on Energy Invested ratio, especially for unconventional oil production, and what the implications will be for the oil industry.