The Earth Is Warming

In recent years, global climate change due to global warming has been largely researched. The paper, “Global Climate Change Triggered by Global Warming,” offers compelling evidence from various scientific papers that the process of Earth’s climate undergoing significant change has already begun and requires our attention due to the probability that human-generated greenhouse gases are the primary cause. Major focal points are shifting towards determining the causes to mitigate the effects rather than establishing the existence as sufficient amount of evidence has proven that global warming is indisputable. During the final decade of the 20th century, climatologists have concluded that the past millennium to be the warmest, especially in the year of 2005. Solutions towards the cause would require assistance from the population as a whole.

During the past several hundred years, civilization has made rapid progress in industries like air travel, automobiles, and energy production. These developments were made without consideration of the long-term effects that their emissions may have on the planet. Changing weather patterns are now wreaking havoc around the world, and scientists attribute this to human-caused climate change. During President Obama’s State of the Union address in 2015, he stated that, “No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change,” (“Remarks by the President”). Warming temperatures caused by anthropogenic climate change have disastrous consequences that pose a threat to humanity and the environment.

Global warming is hot topic nowadays. Alarmists and scientists fight to make their statements known, but while the alarmists avoid the scientist, non-governmental organizations pass themselves as scientist. They not only give out exaggerated data, they also have the nerve to accuse humans of being the cause of global warming. Also, we cannot be certain that we are being told the truth without knowing exactly what is really going on behind the scenes. We blindly trust those in authority because we think that they have our greater good in mind and that whatever they say must be the truth.

The release of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases (GHGs) due to human activity is increasing global average surface air temperatures, disrupting weather patterns, and acidifying the ocean (1). Left unchecked, the continued growth of GHG emissions could cause global average temperatures to increase by another 4°C or more by 2100 and by 1.5 to 2 times as much in many midcontinent and far northern locations (1). Although our understanding of the impacts of climate change is increasingly and disturbingly clear, there is still debate about the proper course for U.S. policy—a debate that is very much on display during the current presidential transition. But putting near-term politics aside, the mounting economic and scientific

Rising levels of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere have warmed the Earth and are causing major impacts. The rise in sea levels; melting snow and ice; more extreme heat events, fires and drought; and more extreme storms, rainfall and floods signify the where our world in going to without interruption.. Scientists predict that these extreme weather events will continue and in some cases accelerate, which poses significant risks to human health. The forests, agriculture, freshwater supplies, coastlines, and other natural resources that are vital to America’s economy, environment, and our quality of life are

As reported by Sandra May (2014) climate change is the change in the usual weather, this could mean how much it has rained in a certain place or it could be in terms of the change in temperature for a month or season. It could also be the change of the Earths climate meaning change in the Earths usual temperature. But the difference between weather and climate is that weather can change in a matter of hours but for the climate it can take hundreds or even millions of years to change.

The science behind the Clean Power Plan shows the importance of reducing carbon emissions. High carbon emissions have an impact on the environment, human health as well as the economy. If carbon emissions are not reduced, climate change will continue to create problems. Average temperatures will increase, storms and heat waves are likely to increase in frequency and intensity, and sea levels may rise. These extreme weather events could lead to increased health risks such as cardiovascular and respiratory problems as well as certain cancers. Furthermore, due to changed weather patterns, agriculture, forestry, recreation and tourism can be impacted. Therefore, damage to the economy will also occur. In addition, these storms could cause damage to infrastructure (“Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions”). Due to the severity of the environmental, health and economic problems carbon emissions can cause, the Obama Administration is moving to advance the Clean Power Plan.

The Federal government's plan to meet its stated INDC is the right approach for Canada to address climate change. Climate change is a worldwide issue affecting everyone on this planet and is irreversible (Guarino, 2017) because of its consequences like the increase in natural disasters (Weather-related 2017). In a scientific perspective, climate change does not only affect people but also the surrounding environment including biotic and abiotic factors. Climate change impacts all regions around the world and 82% of 94 ecological systems are affected by climate change (Scheffers, 2016)." Consequently, this dramatic change can alter the Earth’s major systems.

Mankind and all living species on earth are soon to face drastic changes in the near future. Since industrial days, carbon emissions have caused a fast paced rise in global temperatures. Currently, the repercussions have started with stronger and more destructive hurricanes and tropical storms, animals going extinct, loss of habitats, and people around the world succumbing to the increased heatwaves. As of now, by the end of the century, scientist predict that well over 100,000 people will die, due to heat related illness. The President of the United States has made a big mistake and failed the people of America and the world, when he

Global climate change is a hot (pun intended) topic in today’s modern, industrialized world. This topic however is crowded with lots of baseless opinions and politicized debates. Even when observing the “facts” we see that this coin is most definitely two-sided, the information can be and is interpreted in a number of ways depending on which side of the issue you stand. Within this paper I am going to examine both sides of argument with sources from two films, “Are We Changing Planet Earth”, “Global Warming: Hype or Hazard?” and a book, “This Borrowed Earth: 15 Lesson from the worst environmental disasters around the world” by Robert Emmet Hernan.

“Global Warming is not a conqueror to kneel before - but a challenge to rise to. A challenge we must rise to.” (Lieberman) Every one of the past 38 years has been warmer than the 20th century average because of a dramatic rise in carbon dioxide emissions. We as a society must understand that Global Climate Change is happening and we cannot ignore it. Preventing Global Climate Change is definitely a costly road, but it is necessary to keep the world from falling to pieces. Melting glaciers, rising sea levels, heat waves and flooding are all examples of the outcome of Global Climate Change; any of these examples could thoroughly destroy a city. By altering our weather, health, and economy, Global Climate Change has affected life as we know it today, and it is vital that humans take action by reducing emissions, halting deforestation, fighting misinformation, and preparing for impacts.

Warming of the climate system is unequivocal. Since 1950’s many of the observed changes are unprecedented over decades to millennia. The atmosphere and ocean have warmed, the amounts of snow and ice have diminished, and sea level has risen. Additionally most of these climate changes are due to very small variations in Earth’s orbit that change the amount of solar energy our planet receives. Earth-orbiting satellites and other technological advances have enabled scientists to see the big picture, collecting many different types of information about our planet and its climate on a global scale. This body of data, collected over many years, reveals the signals of a changing climate. The signal of climate change include rise of sea level, surface temperature rise ,glacier retreats, shrinking ice sheets, warming of ocean ,declining artic sea ice ,increase in Antarctic sea ice ,increase in extreme events ,decrease in the amount of snow of snow and ice ,increase in concentration of CHGS.Each indicator described below has been extensively studied over the past several decades, and was captured from many different data sets and technologies.

Scientists agree that the world is heating up. Over the past century, the Earth, on average, has seen a 1.5oF increase in temperature, and is expecting a similar increase, if not a larger one, in the next century. This has resulted in rainfall changes, floods, droughts, and heat waves. In addition, we have seen oceans rise, become warmer and more acidic, and we have seen ice caps melt. Humans contribute largely to climate change, but does that mean that we can prevent it? Steven E. Koonin, New York Times columnist and theoretical physicist, makes the point that even by trying to reduce the emissions that we put into the atmosphere, we would be “delaying the projected doubling of the concentration by only ten years.” Facts like this suggest that prevention is not the answer, but that adaptation is the way to go. We should adapt to climate change because it will make us better off in the future and more people would be willing to get involved.

The disastrous change in weather, a dangerous impact on animal species, and the increase in the depletion of resources, all caused the changes in the Earth’s increasing temperatures. Global Warming is a prominent reason why the U.S should go further to address the world-wide conflict, not only for the sake of the common good for humans and other animals respectively, but for the Earth itself. Over the past decade, this controversial topic has grown very rapidly to come to the attention of many world powers, these of which include both the U.S and China, two of the main facilitators to this problem. Global Warming can be primarily described to be caused by major factors such as the emission of

The United States has regularly shown doubt that global warming is a legitimate concern, with Scott Pruitt, the current head of the US Environmental Protection Agency, stating that “The debate is far from settled.” in a recent Op-ed. This doubt is further illustrated by the United States’ recent announcement that they would be withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement.