Six Degrees: Our Future On A Hotter Planet

Climate change has affected us in many ways, but it was even more influential on organisms and their community. The Earth is gradually heating and we are left to deal with the consequences. Homes are being destroyed, organisms are dying, and resources are running low. Since 1880, Our Earth’s temperature had increased by about 0.8 degrees Celsius. Climate change is affecting the Earth and scientists say that one more degree will greatly affect people from all over the world. There are many consequences of climate change and each one has a great impact on all of us, but organisms’ homes are being destroyed and thousands of species are dying out. These organisms are imperative to our world and how it functions.

Shifts in temperature and precipitation will be a shock to fragile ecosystems which depend on specific climatic conditions. Many species will be unable to adapt as fast as their environment changes and face sharply reduced numbers or extinction. Scientists estimate that a warming of just 2 degree will put as many as 30% of the world's species at risk of extinction. Plants and animals aren’t the only ones feeling the pressure of changing ecosystems. Many regions will face severe water shortages in a warmer world, creating the potential for conflict. It is believed that the genocide in Sudan’s Darfur region is at least in part a response to water shortages resulting from global warming.

Earth is the only known habitable planet to support life. Over 6 billion humans and billions of other living things depend on the earth’s climate to survive. However, since the past century things start to change due to human activity as well as natural occurrences. The unpredicted weather conditions, wild fires and earth quakes have killed and displaced thousands of humans and animals, and wiped out few species from the face of the earth. Some animals and plants are facing the same fate disappearing from the face of the planet due to lack of suitable habitats. Since the beginning of modern technologies, humans have expanded the use of resources widely by adding greenhouse gases such as CO2, without understanding the consequences it might brought on the existence of all living things including their own species. Human’s action is widely believed to be cause for the rise of earth’s temperature. Climate change, which is responsible for extreme weather condition, earth quakes, and severe drought and famine. Climate change poses economical, and environmental threat to every nation. Therefore, climate change is a real event occurring every day, and affecting every living organism throughout the planet. To assess the threat posed by global warming, it is important to look at its causes and effects to present comprehensive solutions, and requires cooperation of every nation to address the issue before the problem becomes permanent.

Global Warming is one of the biggest concerns to our planet. As of right now, ice caps are melting, sea temperatures have risen, and animals have changed their migrating patterns. Not only this, but plants are blooming earlier and fish are migrating towards cooler water. These effects are not just a coincidence. Mankind is causing the decline of our earth at a rapid pace from pollution, to cutting downs trees, and countless other activities. This form of climate change is destroying ecosystems, killing wildlife, and damaging our planet. Mankind must take a stand to become more eco friendly and save the earth―before it is too late.

Environmental issues are becoming a growing concern for the world as well as for the world's leaders. Pollution, littering and the burning of fossil fuels are all problems that have drastically affected humans over the past few years. Impure drinking water, radiation, less ecological diversity and cancer are a few of such harms that the world has experienced. However, one of the most prominent concerns is the greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect, a natural occurrence, is turning deadly with the introduction of humans and carbon emissions and is slowly heating up the world. In future years this could cause catastrophic consequences. Rising global temperatures threatens the very existence of the

Humanity have become incognizant of the term ‘Global warming’, which has become increasingly popular over the past few years, due to the fact that extremists and alarmists over exaggerate scientific facts to utilize in their own favour. Its definition is “The hypothesis that Earth’s atmosphere is warming because of the relinquishment of ‘Poisonous gases’, such as carbon dioxide”. Contrary to popular credence, climate change and ecumenical warming does not subsist. Carbon Dioxide is far from being a poisonous gas that causes chaos on the earth 's environment, CO2 is controvertibly the Earth 's greatest asset in that numerous flora greatly benefits from incremented levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Environmental alarmists, eminent politicians and among them environmentalist journalists have an engender that if humans do not adhere to their radical agenda, then civilization will be threatened by environmental consequences from Global Warming. Decades of scientific studies have shown no consequential elevate in the average temperature of the earth for over 18 years (Bolt, 2015). Further investigation in the inceptions of climate change and global warming has shown that. The arctic ice, which for years has been described as “lost” to future generations has incremented, not melted (BBC, 2015), at an inconceivable rate of over 50% in the past 6 years. Because of farfetched incriminations from extremists and alarmists, our modern society has become incognizant of the scientific

We are all well aware that the climate of the planet we live on is not constant. According to fossil records and modern geology, the Earth has been through multiple ice ages, periods of dryness and times of extreme heat. In the news today, we are constantly being confronted by the effects of global warming, which are almost exclusively detrimental to living organisms. A great part of this change is due to the human race from our burning of fossil fuels in automobiles, deforestation, and industrial agriculture, all of which release excessive greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Global warming has already affected the survival and reproductive success of plants and animals, and even threatens the future of the human race. In recent years, many studies have been conducted to investigate these effects and to predict what the future may hold for planet Earth. Two interesting studies in Europe (Thuiller 2005) and in California (Kelly 2008) investigate how recent local climate change has affected the area’s vegetation.

One cannot shy away from the fact that climate change has been caused by some of the human-based activities on the environment. These activities have been at an increasing rate over the past years generated a wave that cannot be stopped by anyone since our natural environment is no longer independent, but being interfered by humans. We know that different economies are trying their best to up their game through urbanization, technological advancements, and globalization, however, it is not all good at all since there are alterations in both the economic and social patterns on the globe. Land, air, and water are the top most endangered natural resources in the environment since their degradation is increasing each day and every night (McMichael & Confalonieri, 2015).

Climate change is happening all over the world, but not only is it affecting humans, but animal and plants as well. Plants are an essential part of everyday life; the plants help us breathe, provide food for humans and animals, and most importantly help us breathe. Climate change is melting the polar ice caps, it is exceeding the amount of carbon dioxide and other gases in our atmosphere, rising the sea level, along with many other dangerous changes. Moreover, with the temperature rising many places such as Southern Africa, the Sahel region of Africa, southern Asia, the Mediterranean, and the U.S. Southwest, for example, are getting drier. As Joseph Romm said “A basic prediction of climate science is that many parts of the world will experience longer and deeper droughts, thanks to the combined effects of drying, warming, and the melting of the ice” (p.42).

Years have passed and the question many people have avoided when asked over a decade is, are severe greenhouse gases affecting the plant diversity in our ecosystem and other factors? That could not only affect our plants ecosystem but the human race as we speak. As the years transgressed, humanity began to realize the harmful actions society had incorporated towards a conspiracy people allowed to become a floating thought. However, action by earth’s inhabitants was redundant by those whom warned the naïve of the repercussions at an early stage. This being said climate change is present and has now projected an increase in the cause of diseases as well as death, habitat changes for plants, and severe storms along with hurricanes that will continue to deteriorate the planet.

The world is increasingly getting warmer each year, and these increasing temperatures could have the effect of destabilizing the status quo. It has been widely asserted that the increasing global mean temperatures are culminated from human actions. In neglecting care of the environment, humans have essentially instigated a deterioration of living conditions. The increasing temperatures will create a domino effect, by causing environmental conditions that could amplify the rate of extinction of rare species. At the current moment, a number of species are facing a real danger of extinction. Unless the situation is addressed, future generations will face the brunt of the environment damage that has been created thus far. It is even plausible for human extinction to occur, although it may not be in the near future, it is still a possibility. It is the current generation’s responsibility to ensure, or rather play a role in, the vitality of future generations.

Global warming is an international disaster. Its effects and control have dominated virtually all facets of modern human life. It is not uncommon to find even groceries listing themselves as being “eco-friendly” in a bid to attract the environmentally conscious customer. The effects of global warming are not just about blowing hot air in the pursuit of delivering chilling information. This phenomenon has devastating consequences for all, regardless of geographical location. One of the most commonly known effects is the heating up of the atmosphere. Scientists have shown that there is a direct correlation between the increase in carbon dioxide levels and an increase in the temperature of the earth. As a result, warmest years since 1992 have been experienced in recent years according to the IPCC report (2007). Global warming has various devastating effects on life sources such as plants, animals, food sources and climate change.

The influence of our environment has always impacted us, even amidst the growing industrialization of our planet. From the different ecosystems that inhabit more species of animals that we can count to the massive amounts of resources that are sequestered and are hidden in Earth’s deepest places, we are fortunate to be living in a place with an unlimited number of tools to survive. However, as it is in human nature, we tend to overexploit what we have learned to take for granted and gradually corrupt it until its complete destruction. Our environment has taken a toll because of human activity and has been thrown in an unbalanced state. Climate change is the most important crisis of the 21st century, and it is imperative that our society

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.).

Of all the changes swirling around us, perhaps those that affect the natural environment hold the most serious implications for the future of human life. Scientist are increasingly convinced that we face global warming. They warn us that the polar ice caps may melt and inundate the world’s shorelines, the climate boundaries may move north about four hundred miles, and many animal and plant species may become extinct (Polyakov, 2010). Climate changes refer to balance of energy coming into the Earth from the Sun due to its subtle shifts in orbit (Whitmarsh, 2009). In contrast, Whitmarsh defines global warming as a continuous rise in the average temperature of the earth’s climate system (2009).