Project Proposal: Effects of Climate Change

Global warming has become an undisputed fact about our current livelihoods; our planet is warming up and we are definitely part of the problem. However, this isn’t the only environmental problem that we should be concerned about. All across the world,

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.

Imagine your hometown underwater; the places you once hoped to show your grandchildren lost completely and swept away into an abyss. It doesn’t sound great, does it? Unfortunately, this could very well become reality. Maybe not during this generation, but eventually. Climate change is a severe issue that affects us all. Icecaps are melting, sea levels are rising, and many Americans are either unaware of the issue or have listened to major politicians dismissing the issue without much knowledge of it.

Do you want your child to have a higher risk of skin cancer or other terrible diseases? Do you want your child to never be able to play outside with all their friends? Nobody wants their child to have an unhealthy life or be sad because they have no friends to play with. Everyone wants to hope for their child to have a happy and healthy life. Humans not thinking about how the world’s climate change is dramatically changing does not make the climate not change. There are many scientist that have proven that climate change is happening and it has been happening for many, many years. Understanding what is happening

He insists that throughout the Industrial Era, most human activities had been creating a greenhouse effect, impacting the environment and global distribution. He adopts a passionate tone in order to establish his point of view to the readers in America, who question the significance of global warming. Easterbrook appeals to the anxious emotions of his audience by listing influencing elements, such as how the weather will make countries envy each other’s territory, or how dangerous rising sea-level will drown most of the big, prosperous coastal city. Moreover, through his angle of vision, he warns the reader about the advantages the snowy cold high-latitude regions will get, and the disadvantages the humid hot low-latitude regions will suffer during the global warming. He frequently posing question includes the word “we” in it to make sure that the audiences connect with him. Easterbrook creates credibility and is persuasive toward the audience by successfully giving a future look and inevitable consequences of global warming. However, his evidence is only through his opinions and guessing without citing any sources, making it seem unreliable. Nonetheless, Easterbrook has succeeded in creating an effect on the audiences and communicating his thoughts on global

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

Participants, around the age of 50, did not find climate change to be an immediate issue for them, or they did not know how it would affect them. Around ⅔ of the participants said that they were educated in climate change in school, but they either did not remember facts about climate change, or would not consider themselves knowledgeable about climate change. Continuing education, for adults out of school, is also incredibly important. We can do this through advertisements in the newspaper, online, or on television. According to Change the Equation, 48% of Maine science teachers did not even attend school for the class they are teaching. We need to educate the teachers just as much as their

Proposition: The American people should understand that global warming is real and that it is harmful to our environment. I. Attention getter: Global warming - is it real? It is real and it has major effects on our environment and on human life…… II. Audience relevance: Although many of us do not think much about global warming it does affect our quality of life and will have long term effects on our children’s

On the play An Enemy of the people, at the end of act 1 scene 2 page 60, Mrs. Stockmann says to her husband "Tom, Tom, there's so much injustice in the world! You've simply got to learn to live with it." Before, in the same scene we can see the difference of opinions between Dr. Stockmann and his family. Dr. Stockmann reveals his desire to tell the people the truth about the contaminated water, and the wish he has to solve the problem. His family do not agree with his opinion because it could put on risk their power under the city and they could loose much.

Article thesis: People already care about the climate change and are aware of it. They understand the problems it concerns; however, they are not connecting the current climate changes with the effects of our surroundings or on ourselves

In today’s political climate, individuals are more polarized than ever over climate issues. We don’t see much agreement that for whatever the reason, climate change is affecting the Earth. The issues over climate change has hit the media and the environmentalist has done a lot to shined light on the issue as well but, a lot of the citizens still believe that global warming isn’t real. If we are not educated about the issues regarding a sustainable living and about the climate changes going on in current world, then the issue can’t be solved. Educating children when they are young can be a great way to teach living a sustainable life-style. We the people and the politicians need to take a stand and create awareness in schools about living a sustainable life and educate the new generations to care about the negative human impacts on the world.

Soon after the new year began, 2014 was officially declared the hottest year on record. Perhaps this data would not be enough to indicate a trend on its own, but it is reported that the ten hottest years on record have all occurred after 1997 (Gillis 2015). This trend is alarming to scientists, as it confirms that the Earth is in fact warming on a global scale. As climate change continues, there are various problems that the world’s nations are going to have to address. As previously mentioned, climate change is already causing extreme weather deviations. As the temperature continues to rise, there will be more intense and frequent droughts, floods, hurricanes, and heat waves (National Wildlife Federation). Soon enough, people are going to have to start combating these effects of climate change and looking for new ways to protect themselves from the weather at its worst. Not only will severe weather deviations put people in more danger, but so will the bad effects on our health. Lack of clean water, impaired foods, amplified heat exposure, and accelerated spread of blood-transmitted diseases are all plausible risks associated with global warming (Bowen, Ebi, Friel, and McMichael 2013). These inevitable magnitudes of global warming are the root of what makes climate change a social

Signpost and transition: The final aspect of Global Warming that I will be talking about is the effect it will have on our future.

There is an issue on this planet that will define this generation. The issue is climate change. Global warming. A world on the collapse as our oceans are acidified, our air polluted, our forests disappearing, and human rights issues getting worse. It seems that people are not aware of how big climate change actually is. It’s not something that only takes place on the ice caps or in the forests on the far corners of the world. This is an issue that happens here, and now. It’s real. It’s happening.

Thesis Statement (Central Idea): Today I would like to share my thoughts on one of the most heated topic of 21st century which is global warming, alongside its cause and its mitigation alternatives.