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Worldwide temperatures are rising, carbon dioxide is at a hazardous level, ocean acidification, atmosphere boundary shifts, and extreme events are just a few of the worldwide climate changes happening near and far. It is a controversial issue whether it is taking place in the present velocity because of nature or man. However, global climate changes happen naturally, but they ought not to happen at this increased rapidity; therefore, human activity is a great cause that global climate change is happening at an expanded rate. The greatest contribution of human action is the combustion of fossil fuels, which is one of the primary reasons why the carbon dioxide levels are nearing high-hazard strata. Thus, the scientific confirmation supports that the rise in carbon dioxide levels is significantly generated by people, not nature, and people are ultimately the largest contributor to the atmospheric changes; thus, human beings should implement changes to their energy sources and modify agricultural production in order to lessen the quantity of carbon dioxide emitted into the aura at the extraordinary rate it currently is passing.

Over the recent years, global warming has become a hot topic, due to the melting of polar ice caps and extreme temperature changes across the globe. Since 1960, the percentage of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere has increased by 20%, which is the highest recorded in 800,000 years. The true question though is whether this is due to natural causes or whether it’s the impact humans have on the earth’s delicate ecosystem.

There is a vast inequality between the production of carbon emissions within the Global North and Global South. In the past 150 years, approximately 75% of energy related carbon emissions were produced in developed countries (Perkins 2008:42-47). It is important to realize that only leaves 25% of energy based carbon emissions to be produced by the entire developing world

The issue of climate change is people that have created the most carbon dioxide have used more than their share of the atmospheric sink to become rich. The issue of solving climate change though is everyone’s business, rich and poor countries alike need to solve problems together or risk a global catastrophe. The solution should be to use a global cap and trade system per capita which would compensate poor nations for damages that rich nations would cause.

Oscar Wilde once said, “We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell” (Wilde 2015). In other worlds, we bring upon ourselves our own demons, and it is usually not until after the damage is done that when even notice how much damage has been done. Climate change is one of these demons we face, created by our own ambition and our own societal progression. Spanning from the beginning of human civilization, but gaining a tremendous intensity from the occurrence of the industrialization, climate change is a threat to all of us. “Global atmospheric concentrations of GHGs have increased rapidly since the beginning of industrialization and now far exceed pre-industrial values as a result of human activities” (Zhang 2009). Every country, every nation, and every person, will, and is, effected by climate change. So what do we do? What we do is fight, with the development of more environment friendly technologies and ways of life. That being said, while every nation agrees that global climate change is a battle we must all face together, there is a great debate as to who should be responsible to lead the fight in the battle we have created. The debate going is between developed and undeveloped countries, in regard to whether developed countries should be responsible for funding climate sustaining development in undeveloped

There is, perhaps, no more pressing an issue that impacts the future of the human race than the debate over global warming. Whether global warming is occurring as part of a natural cycle of the earth or through CO2 emissions introduced into the atmosphere by mankind, has yet to be empirically proven. However, there is sufficient evidence to suggest that mankind’s contribution may be considerable enough to warrant a change in human habits. According to an article written by Rich Deem, atmospheric CO2 levels indicate a spike of 70 ppm—the quickest rise in CO2 levels over the last 650,000 years (2005). The best scientific evidence has been unable to find any natural causes, suggesting that if mankind fails to act, atmospheric CO2 levels will

Global warming is an issue facing the world today. This is due to the fact that it has caused people to lose their homes, temperatures to rise and many natural disasters to occur. In addition, global warming is a phenomenon in which an average temperature of the earth’s atmosphere and oceans increases due to high concentration of carbon dioxide (Henrik Selin, Michael E. Mann 2017). Whether the negative changes to the global climate is the consequences of human activities or natural process is a global debate in everybody mind. Prominent politicians such as the likes of Al Gore have expressed concerns about the dangers of global warming and suggested that immediate actions need to be taken in order to put an end to global warming. Barack Obama also articulated his concerns about global warming by stating “Not only is it real, it's here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster” Which supports that global warming is real (Floodrisk Master, 2016.) In addition, this essay will be discussing how human activities negatively contributes to carbon cycle and global warming. Understanding global warming and beginning proactive to reducing our impact could be essential to the survival of our planet.Human activities play a major role in changing our climate by transforming areas of land surface and altering gaseous composition in the atmosphere. One of the major component affected by human actions is carbon. Carbon is a

One of the most challenging parts of this assignment involved actually figuring out what we should do. None of our group members had any expertise in environmental or climate policy, and all of us had fairly limited background knowledge on climate change. Our inspiration for the project came from one of our class readings, The Climate Casino. In order to achieve the 2°C targets, all countries must participate, which proves to be incredibly challenging with numerous countries possessing limited resources.(cite) Although this task was daunting, the idea of figuring out how to bring down the carbon emissions in developing countries intrigued us. Eventually we focused our ideas so that “developing countries” became Nigeria, and Nigeria became Lagos, Nigeria.

In the recent years, there has been an increasing difficulty in paying tuition fees for college students. This has been brought about by high cost of living and inflation. In addition, college tuition fees today as compared to 50 years back have increased exponentially. As a result, more students are opting to applying and taking student loans provided by the federal government. Consequently, statistics show that the amount of student dept is souring. This has led to economists start debating on the impact the ever-increasing student dept has on the economy of the United States (Gleeson, 2016). The fact that the student dept is increasing and that experts have warned that students with loans inhibit their future life

On December 12 of 2015, 195 countries made history by committing to the first truly global international climate change agreement (Paris Agreement, 2015). This agreement took place in Paris and was adopted under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The outcome of the Paris Conference on Climate Change was described as “revolutionary” (Venezuela) “marvelous act” (China) and as “a tremendous collective achievement” (European Union) that introduced a “new era of global climate governance” (Egypt) while “restoring the global community’s faith of accomplishing things multilaterally” (USA) (Paris Agreement, 2015).

Discussion piece: Does the Environmental Kuznets Curve exist? The case of carbon emissions in Indonesia, China, Australia, and United States.

There is an evident growing of the economy by the growing of the population. As a result, it is expected an increasing on greenhouse emissions which are the responsible for the climate change. From 1970 to 2005, greenhouse emissions raised 61 %( more or less 1.4% per year). CO2 is the biggest source, raising about 86%. The greatest growing in global CO2 emissions came from power generation and road transport as it is showing in the figure below:

“The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projects that, if unchecked, atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations by 2100 will range from 650 to 970 parts per million. As a result, the panel estimates, average global temperature would probably rise by 2.7 to 10.4 degrees between 1990 and 2100 ”.

In 1988, the United Nation reported that carbon dioxide levels are nearing a dangerous level of interference with the climate system so they have established the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (ProQuest). Greenhouse gas concentrations such as carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide are continuing to rise during 2014 and it is reaching historic values (International). A variety of independent datasets shows

To being with it was imperative that the research project was going to be conducted through research of secondary data existing on the subject area, in order to complete the information and evaluate this by means of producing a literature review.