Human Activity Is Responsible For Our Current Warming Trend

Global warming is a highly debated topic that causes a lot of controversy. There are those in politics that do not believe that global warming is a serious threat, and there are those in the scientific community that have researched global warming and say that it will be a while before anything drastic occurs. Others, such as scientist James Hansen argue that global warming is a serious threat in relation to his research. Also due to the fact that the general public does not get the full story due to censorship global warming is looked upon as a second-rate problem. The entire facts are not fully disclosed and that affects how global warming is looked upon. Global warming is happening now and it is being underestimated greatly as the scientific

Climate change is one of today’s most hotly debated topic. Scientists for many decades have made supposed claims that current energy creation and reliance on fossil fuels will lead to inevitable changes to the planet. Today, climate change denial is still a popular to most of the world despite the mounds of evidence to support that it exists. The climate change issue suffers from being mismanaged by various parties through focusing on the wrong issues and the lack of true commitment from the general public, according to Sandra Steingraber.

As a kid who has cared about nature his entire life, and an avid modern environmentalist for four years and counting, this issue has been at the center of my psyche for quite some time. I have seen public perspective on this issue change before my eyes. From the original rejection of Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth movie on “global warming” to personally marching alongside 300,000 people in our nation's capital to raise awareness on climate change. However, despite all of these avenues the issue is still spoken about as this distant idea that eventually will be a disaster. Many politicians and news networks speak of the need for slow implementation of policies and programs to right our environmental wrongs. The best way to paraphrase the common narrative of this issue would be to say, climate change is going to happen down the road, it will probably be bad and trying to fix it in the near future would be a good idea. That weak call to action shoves climate change onto the long to-do list of the leaders of our world. Not only does it not create the urgency needed to actually curb the effects of our environmental ignorance, but it does not accurately describe the threat of a changing climate. Treating this like a political issue will not allow for the rigorous changes needed to address such a problem in the timely manner that is required.

Climate change has been a subject of discussion in the media for many years, supported with the use of arguments against oil polluting the environment and extreme scare tactics of Polar ice caps flooding civilians backyards. The issue has been ignored by the majority of lay people as seeming too complicated, and with all the conflicting information in the media in the past, who can blame them? However, scientifically, climate change and what perpetrates it is fairly simple to understand and society as a whole is beginning to come to a clear consensus on climate change. Thanks in part to more readily available forms of media and information, people have become cognizant of the fact that climate change is a legitimate problem which requires immediate amelioration. While this may seem melodramatic, society is realizing that climate change is an issue which can no longer be denied if the human race wishes to continue.

Climate change poses a serious threat to Earth and its inhabitants. There is now substantial evidence that human activity is causing global warming because of our large emissions of greenhouse gases. For instance, atmospheric carbon dioxide currently measures at three hundred and ninety seven parts per million, which is the highest it has been for at least the past one million years (National Research Council of the National Academies). Also, scientific data shows that Earth’s average surface temperature has increased more than 1.7 Fahrenheit over the past one hundred years (National Research Council of the National Academies). The evidence is unequivocal that our activities are the main culprit to the disruption of the climate system. In 2013, the top four emitters of carbon dioxide totaled to fifty-eight percent of entire global emissions (Loiseau). Among these four, China is the largest, accounting for twenty-eight percent (Loiseau). The United States accounted for fourteen percent; The EU accounted for ten percent; And India accounted for seven percent (Loiseau). Specifically, China’s total annual carbon dioxide emissions amounted to a massive 8.3 billion metric tons while the United States emitted 5.4 billion metric tons annually (Loiseau). India followed China and the United States with just over 2 billion metric tons emitted annually (Loiseau). This data could, however, be somewhat misleading. For example, even though China does emit the most, it only emits 6.2 metric

With the rise of calamitous news regarding extremists groups taking over certain states, countries threatening to go to war, and viruses spreading throughout the world; the outlook of humanity does not look good. In addition to these dire headlines is the matter of climate change, which, unfortunately, is not as alarming to the public eye. Nonetheless, climate change is a pressing matter as it will impact every facet of society from economy to even human survival. Perhaps the general public find climate change as a vapid subject because of its nature to react belatedly to human activity, and how it is often represented with numbers, graphs, and projections; things that are not compelling to those that do not understand its importance. Even

On November 8th, American citizens will go to the polls and vote for the next president of the United States. During the presidential campaign, both candidates, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, have their own different points of view on environmental issues. Hillary Clinton affirms her commitment to the fight against climate change. She supports the Paris Agreement, which is an agreement among many nations to respond to the threat of global warming and to reverse the worst effects of climate change. Donald Trump, by contrast, does not believe that the shift in the climate is a manmade disaster. He claims that global warming just is a hoax and current global warming is just a part of a natural cycle that is naturally occurring. Donald Trump, then, promises to dismantle the agreement if he becomes the U.S. President. It is important to note that many people and scientists share this same belief with Trump, protesting that global warming is a natural phenomenon. The debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump raises an important issue. Are people primary responsible for global warming? Global warming is due to many reasons; specifically, human activities are the major factors causing the planet to get gradually warmer over time.

The evidence supporting the fact that climate change is occurring because of man is strong. It’s just to spread out over so many fields of study that linking them all together and proving it remains elusive. Man-made climate change is very real, despite denial by some and our government’s failure to act, the consequence appear too grave to ignore. Reducing carbon emissions would mean disrupting the livelihood of lots of people, that is usually the reason that people continue to not believe. More people have to be made aware of what is going on, because our governments cannot solve this problem on their own. Convinced or not, any mature person should realize that wasting energy is wrong and there are laws against it. All one can really do in

There are many factors leading into why climate change is not as of a concern as people make it out to be. What is known as the ‘Climategate scandal,’ demonstrated that data used to show results of climate change was manipulated. In 2009, the leaked emails from a university exposed the scientists who have been using this false data to sway the public. Dr. James Hanson and other scientists were all involved in this scandal. They lowered past temperatures, changed recent temperatures and deleted data that proved them wrong. The emails also showed that the scientists attempted to censor any scientific journal that opposes their work. Alongside the scandal of 2009, there was another scandal in 2011 in which an organization attempted to hire an

Climate change. A buzz spreading around the world that has been known for decades but has recently bloomed into a rather controversial topic. With the topic being brought up in political debates, presidential speeches, as well as everyday conversations, there is one thing everyone can agree on: climate change is happening. Climatologists have proven with scientific evidence that the earth is rising in temperature and that this is a growing threat to our society. (AAAS) Although everyone agrees on this, there is still a disagreement on why climate change is happening and how can someone stop it? The two questions are really one in the same because once we get to the root of the issue we can prevent it from happening. Climate change remains a crucial problem in the U.S. and there are different approaches are being considered on how to solve this issue coming from our states, our president, and our congressman.

Climate change is a difficult subject to address. Climate change is the change in weather patterns in the Earth’s atmosphere. It is a difficult subject because there are many debates for many different types of groups. Political groups, such as democrats and republicans, can never come into terms because how history went regarding presidential elections. This is because people think they have to choose a side. Social groups worry what will happen with our future because the people of the world are always going to wonder what will happen if no one finds a cure for climate change. Environmental groups, such as scientists are also at the same position when it comes not agreeing with each other. Scientists are always researching and finding new facts and possible outcomes of climate change. They will just end up finding something that will contradict the next argument. Also, due to environmental issues, this causes a downfall in economy as well. Almost every opposing group will not accept each other’s opinions, which causes the debate of making the climate better stuck for the future generations. Climate change causes damages from floods, hurricanes, global warming, and other weather patterns. The economy goes into a deep situation when it is forced to pay for the damages of cities, towns, and lives of people. Due to the constant debating from opposing groups about the topic of climate change, the situation becomes more serious, causing further damages and other

It is not surprising to read on the internet about ice caps melting and strong storms devastating cities. Global warming is a serious issue that should be put in consideration. However, before trying to fix such issue. We should focus on what is causing global warming. Humans are responsible for global warming. Even though, most of the earth’s population deny being responsible for global contamination/global warming.

The issue is simple and rather obvious; climate change is real and a problem. With a changing climate comes rising sea levels, hotter days, and stronger and wilder storms, and long painful droughts. What most people can’t seem to agree on is whether or not human activity is playing some role in it. From media outlets to internet forums, the debate is being fought on all fronts. Most of these arguments, however, are just personal opinions and poorly-made observations from the comfort of a gas-guzzling SUV. Honestly, it doesn’t take a genius to look up a legitimate scientific paper and see the data for yourself. Human activity is influencing the global climate in a negative way, with plenty of evidence to prove it and very little disagreement in the scientific community.

       At the beginning of the twentieth century, when global warming was merely a thought to occur among the presence of the greenhouse effect, scientists started to believe it would good for the environment to experience global warming. During the late 1950s, a couple of scientists took further examinations once they noticed there appeared to be a rise of carbon dioxide gas (CO2). Which resulted into the average temperature rise before the end of the twenty first century. Roger Revelle speculated for earth in the twenty first century to encounter a rough effect as soon as the green house effect exerted. After 1960, additional scientists begun to examine when the atmosphere experienced a rapid raise of CO2 (Impacts of global warming, February, 2016).

Global warming is considered as the impacts of human activities on the climate (Houghton, 2005). The temperature increases observed since the middle of last century have resulted from the increases of greenhouse gas emissions (Eckard, 2010). As the issues of health problem and nature disasters draw more and more attention, GHG emissions reduction becomes a key issue in every walk of life, from politics to business. According to the latest data from Environment Canada, the construction industry contributed to around 1.4 Mt CO2e annually between 2005 and 2011 (Environment Canada, 2013). Although, it accounts for only 1.7% of total Canadian GHG emissions in 2011 (Environment Canada, 2013), this is still a considerable amount, which requires