The Causes Of Climate Change

To understand climate change, one must understand what a climate is. A climate can be defined as “the usual weather of a [particular] place…[to] include patterns of temperature, precipitation, humidity, wind, and seasons” (State of Washington, n.d.), just to name a few. Climate differs from weather as a climate is comprised of the usual conditions of a given place (i.e. is it consistently humid, dry, wet, cool, etc.), while weather is the conditions present at a given place at any one time (i.e. it is raining, snowing, sunny, etc.). Climates are unique to individual places and generally stay the same over time, while weather can change by the day.

Climate change is happening and it is happening quite rapidly all around the world. The earth is undoubtedly warming and over the past one hundred years, Earth’s average temperature has increased by about 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit. (EPA 1) The big problem with the average temperature rising is that it can have a negative effect on the planet and potentially have dramatic shifts in the global climate. According to the EPA, the United States Environmental Protection Agency, “Many places have seen changes in rainfall, resulting in more floods, droughts, or intense rain, as well as more frequent and severe heat waves. The planet's oceans and glaciers have also experienced some big changes - oceans are warming and becoming more acidic, ice caps are

Climate change, on the other hand, examines the shift in temperature, wind and precipitation over several decades (EPA, 2015). Greenhouse gases have a major impact on climate change because they are responsible for reflecting the heat back that is released from the earth’s surface. The heat is responsible for the shift in temperature, precipitation and wind patterns experienced on a global scale (EPA, 2015). The earth’s surface temperature has increased by 0.74°C in the last century and the current data suggest that the rise in the temperature is due to an increase in carbon dioxide (CO2) released into the atmosphere (Nuleas et al., 2013). An increase in greenhouse gases has results in significant changes in climate patterns.

Climate change is one of the utmost damaging problem to humanity by the reason that it affects everyone who lives on Earth. Though there are social problems, such as war or racism, that may affect certain groups of people, even those with no human contact are affected by climate change in some way.

What is global warming? Global warming is the average temperature of Earth has increased since 1950 until now the temperature continuing increasing. Global warming can also refers to climate change that causes an increase in the average of temperature. However global warming are caused by natural events and human that are believed to be contribute to increase in average temperatures.

Global warming refers to the high rate of increase in the global average surface temperature in recent years (National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA], 2017). Since the late 19th century, the global average surface temperature has increased by about 2.0 degrees Fahrenheit, and most of the warming occurred within the last 35 years (NASA, 2017). These rising temperatures are a result of the “greenhouse effect,” which is described as follows:

Abstract: Anthropogenic action has caused and significantly increased amount of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere. These greenhouse gasses are contributing to climate change and causing many systems of the Earth to change, specifically the soil. Soil is home to a wide range of microbes that play an important role in soil structure formation and the carbon cycle. With warming of the soil, microbes are decomposing organic matter more rapidly and as a result, are releasing more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, creating a positive feedback loop. The microbes in soil are also changing because of climate change and they are changing very rapidly, making it unclear how long it would take for the microbes and carbon cycle to revert back to their previous state.

Usually people pay attention on daily weather changes and how the weather will be through the week or the month, but do we pay attention on climate change how it affects our lives. Did we ask ourselves what are the causes of climate change? How climate change impacts our activities? Can we do something to solve this big issue before to turn to a big disaster? These questions make me think deeply how we work to solve this problem because the earth is the only place so far we can live on it. Climate change has become a worldwide problem and this issue affects human lives, environment, social and economic. The change in climate has serious impacts on our natural ecosystem and as human we should face it before causing great catastrophe such as water availability, agriculture, rising sea levels and health. Many studies recognize that sign of change is increasing in average temperatures, snow and rainfall, patterns are shifting, and extreme climate events are becoming more common in our days. These changes are expected to grow if we don’t solve the issues or the causes of climate change.

Global warming is the heating of the earth at an unnatural pace due to humans. The world regularly undergoes eras of warming and cooling, the current event is due to humans and is happening more rapidly than ever before. Bill Freedman (2014) stated that, "...increases in global temperatures are due to human activity (i.e., not due to solar variations, volcanic activity, cyclic warming or cooling trends, etc.) …" This means that the warming of the earth is only global warming when it is caused by humans. Currently, according to past trends on Earth, the planet is supposed to be undergoing a cooling, but because of global warming the earth is on a heating trend. Global warming is caused by the Industrial Revolution, increased greenhouse gases, and deforestation and effects the world by raising temperatures, melting polar ice caps, rising sea levels, and the extinction of species and the harm of humans.

Global warming refers to the rising temperature trend of the earth which has seen more noticeable temperature rises due to the increase in fossil fuels and the industrial revolution which started in the late 1970s.

Global Warming is an important topic and it’s something everyone needs to look into. It can cause a lot of problems and damage. A decade ago, the idea of global warming probably wasn’t much of a concern. In this essay, the things that will be addressed are why global warming is important- the evidence, what causes it and the effects of it, the impact how we can prevent it, and other information on it.

Since the industrial revolution human activities have enhanced the greenhouse effect causing global temperatures to rise significantly.

Climate change is an ever growing danger to us and the planet and the effects of it will be catastrophic. Climate change will make the global temperatures rise which will melt the polar ice caps putting many species at risk for extinction, it will also cause much stronger hurricanes and tornados and other weather related problems, and the scary part is; there currently is no real marketable solution to climate change that would not lower our living standards to what we had before the industrial revolution.

Climate change is happening, slowly but surely. Our earth is warming and the evidence is clear. Rising global temperatures have been displayed through floods, droughts, or intense rain in parts of the world. As we have established earlier, Climate change refers to any significant change in the measures of climate lasting for an extended period of time. In other words, climate change includes major changes in temperature, precipitation, or wind patterns, among other effects, that occur over several decades or longer (Climate Change: Basic Information). There are various causes, challenges, and consequences of the climate change.

One of the biggest problems we face in the world today, is global warming. Many climate scientists believe that the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and deforestation is causing our earth’s climate to heat. Greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide are trapping heat from the sun in our atmosphere, which causes ice to melt, sea levels to rise, temperatures to rise and some animal species population to decline.