Global Warming Is A Serious Issue

For the past decade or so, global warming has been a topic of debate for people to determine whether it exists or not. I personally believe global warming is a natural occurrence, and the world is going through it’s course as a planet. However, many scientists, researchers, and environmentalists are showing concerns in the fact it does exist. But, there are still few people who disagree global warming is not occurring. I will discuss why I think global warming does not exist, human involvement, and costs and benefits of the topic.

I believe climate change is becoming a more serious issue as the year’s progress. As we all know the summers are getting hotter and the winters seem to not end fast enough. One reason I believe plays a big part in the changes is the big hand that humans have on the Earth. Every year, there are tons of CO2 being released into the atmosphere. This CO2 comes from a number of things such as: fossil fuels like coal or oil, energy generation, transport, and households. Climate change is affecting so many people and the nature all over the world. There are several little things that can be done by every person to make a big difference in the long run. For starters, let’s avoid CO2 emissions by stopping the air plane costs of sending businessmen to meet in person with video conferencing instead, and improve energy efficiency. Other solutions can be as simple as stopping forest loss and replacing high-carbon coal with low-carbon gas. Limiting climate change can be done, but it is up to the community to make it happen.

Presently, while Scientists are warning us about the deleterious effects of Global Warming, “Nonscientists” also have separate views on the same issue. This indicates that Global Warming is a controversial issue that needs to be addressed. First, we need to understand the concept of “Global Warming.” Global Warming is described as the general increase in atmospheric temperatures worldwide, which results to climate changes. According to an article titled “Global Warming,” the earth’s atmosphere contains various gases that act as a blanket to trap heat from the sun and prevent it from escaping back into space. This means that these gases prevent the earth from being cold. This continued process is known as the greenhouse effect, and the gasses that are responsible for maintaining this heat are carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. They continued, “Over time, the amount of greenhouse gases trapped in the earth’s atmosphere has increased significantly, causing worldwide temperatures to rise.” Human activities like industrialization and agriculture also play a significant role in increasing these gases. For example, the use of certain fertilizers, produce nitrous oxide and methane emissions come from the production of fossil fuels from landfills, and from livestock, they emphasized. All these evidence illustrates that we are significantly responsible for recent increases in temperatures. For this reason, it is obvious that it is a pressing human issue. This recent dramatic

Humans will destroy the earth if no one acts. Climate change is a serious problem that has been around for decades. The 21st century is special because of the technology and information available. Yet, people continue to ignore the overwhelming destruction happening to nature. Through many years, masses have begun to take responsibility and restore the planet. In time, the earth might be what it once was.

The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement on Climate Change. The major feature of the Kyoto Protocol is that it sets binding targets for 37 industrialized countries and the European community for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. This amounts to an average of five per cent over the five-year period 2008-2012.

The recent panic about global warming is causing problems throughout the United States. The global warming debate is a variety of arguments regarding the nature, causes, and consequences of worldwide global warming. The disputed issues include, whether this warming trend is extraordinary or within normal climatic variations, whether humankind has caused it, and whether the increase is an object of poor measurements. The controversy is much more pronounced in the popular media than in the scientific literature, where there is a strong agreement that global surface temperatures have increased in recent decades and that the trend could mainly be caused by human related emissions of greenhouse gases. The question is, is global warming human

Global warming is drastically changing the world’s climate, causing temperatures and sea levels to rise noticeably. Caused by the usage of greenhouse gases, global warming has brought about extensive controversy concerning its causes and even its existence. Although it is an issue of ongoing concern,many make no modifications in their daily lives. Global warming remains a substantial issue for the world's people, animals and the environment; its ill health effects, forced relocations and the killing off of the food sources combine to make it a widespread problem that requires immediate attention and action.

Subsequent conferences of parties (COP) meetings have proved to bear little fruit, apart from the Kyoto Protocol, signed in 1997, which remains the contractual international climate change regime. However, even Kyoto was not ubiquitous, as it remains conspicuously unsigned by the US. Kyoto set binding target levels for reduction of emissions for developed countries and instituted a scheme that would lead to an eventual wider policy. Central to the Kyoto Protocol is the notion, which first emerged out of the Rio Earth Summit of 1992, of common but differentiated responsibilities (CBDR), which acknowledges the inherent differences between developed and developing countries in their historical responsibilities as well as their respective abilities to combat climate change but calls for a united global effort. The idea is that developed countries proportionally must assume more of the emissions reduction burden as they are responsible for the historical contributions of CO2 to climate change during their industrialization processes, as well as provide “financial assistance and technological transfers” to developing countries. This tenant of CBDR has remained central to each additional international climate negotiation, but has proved to be an unsuccessful governing framework

According to an article focused on environmental awareness, “the world’s average surface temperature rose by approximately 1 degree Fahrenheit, the fastest rate in any period over the last 1000 years” (Source A). Damage has already been done to the environment but it is not the time to throw our hands up, it is the time for leaders in all sectors to tackle this issue head on. We know that carbon dioxide is the culprit, so now it is imperative to implement the solution and take a hard look at who is producing the most greenhouse gases. Big changes need to take place but they can only be done in steps and not all at once to be effective. In an excerpt from a book about global warming, Mark Maslin brings up the point that many feel the Kyoto Protocol does not go far enough; scientists believe that a 60% cut of greenhouse gas emissions is necessary in order to “prevent major climate change” (Source E). A sixty percent cut of emissions should be what countries work up to achieving but first and foremost, every country needs to agree to the Kyoto Protocol guidelines. The Kyoto Protocol itself should not be viewed as the end in the discussion of greenhouse gas restrictions, but rather the first stepping stone to a much broader and effective

climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time. It is undisputedly clear that human are partly responsible for global warming through deforestation burning fossil fuels and other changes we have caused to the land. There has not only been a significant increase in temperature across the globe but the seal level has rose 20cm in the past century alone. the (Intergovernmental panel of climate change, IPCC) has also tracked the “unprecedented recent rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases since the beginning of the industrial revolution.” It is alarming that the emissions of greenhouse gas continue to rise globally and it is deeply concerning that all countries, particularly developing countries, are vulnerable

Climate change is a global problem that is affecting Earth’s delicate ecosystem. Many problems are present in our world today, such as starvation, flooding, heat waves, droughts and disease. These issues are likely to worsen as climate change takes its toll. In the past, the cause of this severe climate change was unknown. Today, it is known that manmade climate change is occurring. Scientists have discovered that humans have had the greatest impact on the Earth’s ecosystem. Human activities, such as burning fossil fuels and deforestation, are causing the Earth to get hotter. Although humans are not the only cause of climate change, we contribute to this world wide problem because of the actions we take, which if affecting us now and will continue to affect us in the future.

At the 2016 Oscar awards, Leonardo DiCaprio received a long-awaited first Oscar, only to mention climate change as, “the most urgent threat facing our entire species.” Talk of climate change has become more prevalent in recent years, but has not done so unjustified. Global ambient air temperatures have risen at alarming rates and are projected to rise up to 6 degrees Celsius by the year 2100. Such drastic changes in the air temperature will not only have an effect on heat distribution, but could prove disastrous to individual ecosystems and the overall biosphere of planet earth. Many ecosystems are a delicate balance of plant and animal life and, when altered by slight margins, can harm carbon cycles and imperiled species. Furthermore, evaporation and precipitation rates will also morph over time to match the changing of the seasons, further antagonizing severe weather patterns. In combination, all of these side effects of carbon emissions provide a bleak future for the earth and all of its inhabitants, and if these problems are not addressed properly we could all suffer the consequences for future generations to come. Research suggests that the harmful effects of carbon emissions must be addressed aggressively because many species are suffering in number as well as quality of life, weather patterns and rainfall are behaving more erratically, and the overall temperature of the earth continues to rise at an alarming rate.

The majority of the scientific community agrees, to some extent, that global climate change is a real and serious issue. Various organizations, to include the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have gathered endless data on evidence, causes, and consequences. In the past, the debate was whether global climate change was a real phenomenon and whether humans were the main contributors to its acceleration. Unfortunately these debates are still covered through social media sources, such as Fox News and CNN. Presently, these types of debates over whether global climate change and its direct correlation to human induced activities has ceased to continue, and how can anyone argue against when there are several scientists and sources with thorough research. Rather, several organizations have provided more in-depth analysis on the detrimental effects of the increase of greenhouse gases, to include carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, methane, water vapor, and chlorofluorocarbons, as well as answering how the increasing adverse effects have will continue to impact the world.

Global warming is a huge concern in society that is only growing bigger because people either are not well informed about it, or they are not concerned about it. Some think that it will just go away and others still believe that it doesn’t exist, even though there is hundreds if not thousands of pieces of evidence that supports otherwise. One of the biggest pieces of evidence that proves global warming is real is the effect that photosynthesis has on global warming.

The issue of global warming should be on the list of our top priorities. Studies show that the average of global temperatures have risen since the Industrial Revolution began. Since the Industrial Revolution, human emissions has quadrupled the frequency of certain heat extremes and many scientists have warned that a failure to bring greenhouse gases under control could eventually lead to a 62-fold increase in extreme heat blasts (Gillis Justin A17). Most of the increase is due to human activities, especially the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation. These activities contribute to a build-up in carbon dioxide and other gases in Earth’s atmosphere. The Earth’s atmosphere is made of gases like nitrogen, carbon dioxide and oxygen. These gases act as a blanket that covers and gives us warmth, but once these gases such as carbon dioxide absorbs heat, but does not release it back into space in which causes the increase in global temperature. This is called the greenhouse effect because it only traps heat but does not release it.