Lord Stern's Argument Against Climate Change

In this speech he touches on the topic of climate change in which he supported that we needed to change our way of living to save the world. “Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires and crippling drought and more powerful storms” he created ways to stop ice from melting in

Climate change, a global scale challenge that is most important due to its present and long-term dangers, deserves not only much discussion, but attention as well. In particular, one former president who wanted to fight this challenge head on was Al Gore. When speaking to this challenge, former President Al Gore stated, “It is wrong to use the sky as an open sewer, it is wrong to condemn future generations to a lifetime haunted by continual declines in their standard of living, and give them a world of political disruption and all the chaos that scientists have warned us about” (Carrington 2017). To put it differently, Al Gore is simply implying that climate change is the leading force of great destruction to come. For this reason, Al Gore

In “ Think Again: Climate change,” Bill Mckibben addresses the climate change catastrophe. The damage has already begun and it may be too late to save the planet. There has been many debates and controversies on climate change, but that is about to change, and scientists have accepted the fact that humans are warming the planet. In 2007, the Arctic Ocean melted more ice than ever before. Again in 2008, more ice was melted and the Arctic is now open water. In addition, other regions will eventually suffer from crop loss and food shortages. Eventually, climate change will force states to start conflicts and wars over resources.

The idea of climate change, for many, is an opinionated subject with much discussion of whether it is a real issue or just a natural phenomenon. However in recent years it is clear to see that trends in the Earth’s climate and surface temperature has spiked to levels never seen before. Despite all the evidence of the high levels of greenhouses gases and the rise in temperature, many still believe that

Persistently higher temperatures caused by global warming have led to greater than average summer melting as well as diminished snowfall due to later winters and earlier springs. This imbalance results in a consequential net gain in the rate of runoff to ocean evaporation, causing sea levels to rise dramatically. Sadly, many take slight notice towards this fact because it may not seem a dreadful and urgent effect at first. However, after concluding that a sum of forty percent of the world's population lives within one hundred kilometers of the ocean, the severity of this effect is clear. Thousands of major towns and cities will be flooded, putting millions of lives and billions of dollars' worth of property and infrastructure at risk. As the water reaches further inland, it can cause destructive erosion, wetland flooding, agricultural soil contamination, and loss of habitat for fish, birds, and plants. These are just what a single effect of global warming will cause, showing that this matter must be taken seriously by all. Remember, This planet is our home, which means it is our concern, and if we don't do something to protect it...who

Through the last decades, climate change has sparked up a controversial issue not only in the US but around the world. We have been told time and time again, what we, as people, are currently doing to our planet has been demonstrated scientifically to be ruining our planet. However, beyond the facts, and past the statistics, there’s something that gives these scientific demonstrations meaning. This happens to be the people of the world that these numbers fall behind. How do we work with and counter these grueling numbers that diminishes the world? And more importantly, what is the relationship between global climate change and international relations?

Climate change and the effect it has had on global warming has been a scientific subject discussed for the last 30 years; however, only recently has it became a highly debated issue in world politics and pop culture. In fact, according to United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), climate change is one of only a few topics that many countries across the world have agreed upon as a potential future cataclysmic issue which must be discussed by world leaders who should also address it with their citizens. The vast majority of scientists are not only

Stopping global warming is urgent. We have just a few years to turn around the growth of greenhouse gas emissions in order to avoid the worst effects. The greater the magnitude and rate of warming, the greater the chances are for truly devastating - and potentially irreversible - changes in the Earth's climate system. Even by acting today to reduce our emissions from cars, power plants, land use, and other sources, we will see some degree of continued warming for a period of time because past emissions will stay in the atmosphere for decades or more. But, the window for effective action is closing fast and responding to the

Climate change is a massive controversy in the United States. There are multiple groups, organizations, and political leaders who believe that climate change is a hoax. For example, take U.S. Senator, Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), who brought in a ball of snow to the senate floor and stated that “It’s very, very cold out” (C-Span 2015). The wide variety of misinformation about climate change has produced a large scale of climate change skeptics. Most notably are those located in Woodward County, Oklahoma. Thirty percent of the residents in Woodward Country believe that climate change is not really happening (Yale 2014). CNN reporter, John D. Sutter (2015), was sent on a mission to understand why so many in Woodward County are skeptical about climate change. At the end of his journey, Sutter realized that most of the residents were confused and had been fed misinformation. The climate change skeptics were the loudest voices and all those who may have thought differently kept their opinions to themselves out of fear of going against the oil and natural gas industries (Sutter 2015). Nevertheless, skeptics are in need of being informed with the right information about climate change. It is imperative for climate change to be in the forefront not only because 97 percent of climate scientists say that climate change is very real and caused by humans, but because we only have one Earth to call our home (Sutter 2015). In order to convince skeptics to support clean energy policies,

Melting ice caps, intense heat waves, and rising sea levels are all clear indicators that the climate is changing. Many scientists from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predict a temperature rise of two to ten degrees Fahrenheit over the next century (“Global”). The future forecasts also calls for greater intensity hurricanes, droughts, and an ice free arctic. The public does not believe that climate change will significantly affect them but it will and already greatly has. Many different factors come into play when trying to find a cause for the changing climate, but a major one is greenhouse gases produced by human activities.

Global warming has been one of the most challenging problems our society has encountered and people don't acknowledge that our climate change is becoming worse as the time goes by. Climate change which is said to be the regular or ordinary weather in an environment consists of patterns like seasons and temperature. Climate patterns play such an important role in constructing an essential ecosystem, human economies and cultures that rely on them has raised the surface of the world's oceans in recent decades by melting glaciers and causing seawater to expand as it warms. In addition, thermal expansion from current and future greenhouse gas desolation and increasing mass losses from the glaciers and ice sheets due to warming oceans and

Considering that politicizing global warming has become a national distraction, much of the discussion has become vague as to what is even at the core of the debate. To comprehend the debate about global warming, one needs to understand the definition of global warming. Global warming is the average temperature increase of the Earth’s oceans and atmosphere over the last century. The U.S. National Academy of Sciences states the Earth’s temperature has gone up one degree Fahrenheit over the last one hundred years (Miller 56). Much of the deliberation about

As President Barack Obama once stated, “There’s one issue that will define the contours of this century more dramatically than any other, and that is the urgent and growing threat of a changing climate” (The White House 2014). Climate change is at the forefront of politics in the twenty-first century. Scientists agree: the planet is warming and something must be done. There is a consensus among the scientific community, with 97% of experts agreeing that humans are causing global warming. For comparison’s sake, “scientists are as certain that humans are responsible for most recent climate change as they are that cigarettes are harmful to human health” (Romm 9). Despite this scientific certainty, many humans are still skeptical about climate

This ‘distraction’ away from the problem of climate change has been crucial in actually making climate change even more important to discuss now, as we can see the effects that it is having across the world now, and in our predictions for the future. With the melting of the polar ice caps, rising sea levels and greater threats of natural events such as hurricanes and earthquakes; it seems that this is the problem that effects the most people, and the one very few are talking about, explained by Alan Rusbridger here “The changes may be happening too fast for human comfort, but they happen too slowly for the newsmakers – and, to be fair, for most readers” While difficult to dismiss the vast amounts of issues we all face, be it in the UK, in Europe or Internationally, it is hard to understand why out of the 5 large UK parties standing in the General Election, only the Liberal Democrats and the Green party have included climate change reducing measures in their manifestos to any great length. In the United States both the Democrats and the Republicans have declined to include any substantial measures for the 2016 Presidential election so far, the trend is the same across most western democracies. So despite the impeding threat of this serious issue, it as taken a back seat, as the electorate’s thoughts and opinions are often directed by the media they expose themselves to, and there are very few

The seas are rising, rain patterns are changing, and polar ice is vanishing (Swim, et al.)! Unfortunately, these are the sad realities currently within our Earth and they are all a result of global warming. Through human actions, such as burning fossil fuels and the destruction of forests, humans have altered Earth’s heat balance and as a result, have raised the temperatures on Earth (Swim, et al.). Over the past ten years, Earth’s climate has increased as a direct result of the negative actions by Earth’s inhabitants (Swim, et al.).