The Effects Of Climate Change On Our Lives

Climate change is not a new concept. It has been mostly referred to as global warming in the past. As much as people would like to file this issue away as something to deal with at a later date, it simply cannot wait. This problem we face is costing us billions of dollars, forests and wildlife are being eliminated, and people are dying. Starting to sound like a big deal, right? Future generations will be affected the most. People who do not even exist will have to pay for what we, all people, have done to this earth. To begin to make changes, one must realize the severity of the issue. Bill Mckibben, author of “Recalculating the Climate Math,” conveys that “We’ve already raised the world’s temperature by one degree—enough to melt almost half the ice in the Arctic, kill off huge swaths of the world’s coral, and unleash lethal floods and drought. July and August tied for the hottest months ever recorded on our planet, and scientists think they were almost certainly the hottest in the history of human civilization” (Page 3 of 5). Global climate change is a serious problem because it increases natural disasters and is the cause of extreme weather.

Climate change is known as one of the greatest threats to the planet. It is not only a threat to the planet environmentally, but it is a threat socially and economically. As we all could feel, see, and know, the weather patterns globally and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have been increasing over an extended period of time. Although it may seem like it’s not a dramatic change since it is data from over a large amount of time, it is considering the fact that the large amount of time is not that large as it should be. Climate change is nothing new to us. It’s happened many years ago in the past because a variety of reasons but as the years go on, the rate on charts are just getting higher. As much as I would like to blame this predicament on nature, humans has a fault as well. We release thousands of greenhouse gases into the air through many procedures, but there are things that we cannot entirely control. However, whoever’s fault it is to blame I believe that if we work together and think we will more likely be able to find effective solutions for this problem.

In the past few years, the issue of Climate Change has been introduced as an new and upcoming problem for modern leaders. There are many people who think Climate Change is a hoax, but at the same time there are many people who thinks it is the real deal. I am here to tell you that Climate Change is real and a very big problem. First off, Climate Change describes the increase level of greenhouse gases and the increase of temperature of the Earth overtime. In recent years temperatures in many areas have reached the highest they have ever been, and temperatures look to continue to rise.

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.

For those individuals who doubt climate change is real, I would strongly recommend they watch this documentary; it just might change their perspective on climate change and how it has led to extreme weather changes. Research shows that "Eighty-eight percent of natural resource professionals in this study agree or strongly agree that the science indicates that our climate is changing" (Allred et al. 10). The problem is most people do not truly believe the facts that are discovered by scientist. President Donald Trump is one example, you hear it over news reports saying that us as people do

Climate change, global warming, greenhouse effect—even if you only watch the news periodically, these are phrases that you have most likely become aware of. In short, climate change is the change global and regional patterns regarding climate; this is due to possible changes in the Earth’s axis, human activity modifying the composition of the atmosphere, or geographical activity such as volcanic eruptions [1]. Many have speculated and argued whether climate change actually exists. Regardless of your opinion, a staggering amount of scientists have accepted climate change as a reality. In fact, the much-admired astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson claims that individuals denying scientific facts is the “beginning of the end of an informed democracy” [2]. The article Climate Change: No Hiding Place supports Neil deGrasse Tyson’s notion stating “those who doubt that greenhouse gases are quite the problem they have been cracked up to be by most of the world's climatologists” [3]. While it may be difficult to see climate change presently, there are many indicators of its existence with the higher temperatures and acidity levels in the ocean, the melting of Arctic ice caps,

Climate change is not something we think about everyday and can be a complex and confusing topic to research or understand. Many of us do not understand the daily implications of climate or what the future climate may look like. Regardless, most people have strong opinions on the climate change topic and many are adamant about their decisions. All across the world, people wonder, is global warming a threat to our lives as we know them? Is the majority of it caused by humans? While some sources say that 97 percent of climate change scientists agree, other sources say it’s more like 40 percent. That is a very large difference in statistics that ranges from almost 100 percent to well under 50.(percent quote) There is still a large amount of controversy

Recently, I’ve realized I don’t know much about climate change at all, and I’m sure that most of the human race is of the same standard as me. We go through our daily lives believing that our planet will stay the same, but we’re wrong. With every passing hour, our climate is making drastic changes. Over the past years, the water levels have been rising, the amount of greenhouse gas emissions are increasing, icebergs are melting, and pollution is

Do you remember a few months ago, back in January and February when we had 40 degree weather and rain? It seemed a bit odd didn’t it? This odd weather is due to a global climate change, or Global Warming. Global Warming is when the global temperature increases at an alarming rate. We cause Global Warming by emitting co2 and other Greenhouse Gases. These gases collect in the atmosphere and collect ultraviolet radiation that is trying to escape into the atmosphere into space (MacMillan). Due to this radiation not escaping into space the environment around us is changing. Global Warming has made the global temperate increase by 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit (MacMillan). This may not seem like a lot but it is to the whole world. Artic glaciers are melting and effecting every way a polar bear lives (“Effects on wildlife and habitat”), it also affects us by rising the sea levels and flooding parts of the world where we have coastal civilizations. It also affects the way plants get water and how dry the ground is (Ast and Patsalides). This affects all of us because we may not be able to adapt to the fast changing environment and we may have to abandon ship. Today, I will be persuading you to believe that the Earth is warming from Humans and their high CO2 emissions, by first, telling you about to this problem, second, sharing a solution with you, and finally, I will tell you how my

A controversial topic is climate change, between if it’s human-made or if it’s natural, or even if is real or not. Climate change is a longstanding shift in the earth's climate, specifically an alternation due to the increase in the average atmospheric temperature. This dilemma commenced in the beginning of the 1800’s near the start of the Industrial Revolution. With the excessive carbon emissions into the earth’s atmosphere during this period, scientists began to realize that there was a sudden and long-term effects on the earth’s atmospheric temperature. For this reason climate change is caused by humans and is not natural.

Climate change is a change in global or regional climate patterns. Climate change is a topic that is brought up in many different genres of conversations. Whether it be brought up and discussed in politics, school, family, or friends, some people still limit using those words when in casual conversation. Some of those same people are the people who still deny that climate change is happening. Climate change affects every single one of us. It affects everyone who lives on this earth every day and has long term damages that researches can not even predict yet. A new survey finds that 70 percent of Americans believe the climate is changing, this poll is from Monmouth University in January, 2016. A lot of people are on the fence about supporting climate change and question whether or not the government should take a stand for reducing climate change. As a teen and an upcoming young adult, living in a clean and healthy world means a lot to me. Climate change is not a recent problem, it has been happening for many years. I will be sharing both sides of the climate change argument and explaining the steps the government could take to reduce these changes in our environment. I will also explain why there is such a resistance among parts of the community toward climate change.

The idea that the earths climate is consistently changing is widely accepted by nearly every scientist around the world due to sufficient evidence and long term weather trends backing this conclusion. Climate change can be noted by the several juristic changes that are currently occurring within nature. It is causing an intensification of natural disasters-such as hurricanes, floods, droughts, and many more-due to warmer temperatures allowing for more moisture to be held within the air. It also causes a decrease in biodiversity within nature, causing several species of animals to become endangered or even extinct due to habitat loss. Both of these are just some of the many ways climate change is negatively impacting nature and ultimately us as a human race. Despite all of this evidence, there is still a sizeable group of people that do not believe in such climate change. Some, on the other hand, may believe in the issue, but ignorantly assume that it is not of any importance to them. They are wrong. There is more than an ample amount of evidence to prove that climate change is occurring now more than ever across the world, effecting ourselves as well as ecosystems more than we know. There are several organizations that meet to address and solve the global issue of climate change. Still, a wide majority of nations around the world choose not to become involved in these foundations, making them just as large of a problem, as they feed off of others contributions.

Climate Change. Two very threatening and real words that are just thrown to the side by many Americans. For those who don’t know what it is, climate change is change in weather patterns because of fossil fuels in the atmosphere raising the amount of carbon dioxide. In the beginning of the 2000’s was when people were started to get warned about how likely climate change will be because of global warming. I believe that if people actually listened to that, we could’ve found several ways to stop or at least hold back on all of the catastrophic events that are currently happening or have happened. No one really believed that it could actually happen, they kind of just moved it to the side of their minds and didn’t want to really believe it. Some people are still refusing to believe climate change or don’t even know what it is.

The biggest problem with climate change today is the debate on whether or not human activity is responsible for our current warming trend. According to Jonathon Schuldt (2014:219), around 99.7% of climatologists agree that man-made climate change is a reality, while only 40% of Americans believe that humans are the main driver. This is because we live in societies in which, thanks largely to the internet, everyone is free to express an opinion. On the issue of climate change, we have tons of sites saying one thing, as well as tons of sites saying something the complete opposite. According to Schuldt (2014:224), politicians, the media, and the public have hijacked the global warming debate. The big problem with these groups trying to control the debate is that they do not think in a scientific way like climatologists. According to Schuldt (2014:222), there is clear evidence that the polar icecaps are continuing to melt and the arctic ice is disappearing, but still people deny global warming is occurring. This has led to the science of global warming being thrown out of the window and according to Mazo (2014:47), has slowed the momentum of national and international efforts to prevent climate change, to the point where it will be politically impossible to succeed.

Climate change is an extremely serious threat because it affects every living thing on the planet. Climate change can have destructive effects like causing extreme weather events, ocean acidification and increasing global temperature. These are only few of the effects of climate change and if it continues can even cause the extinction of humanity. Much of the scientific community agrees that our use of fossil fuels is the cause and our continued dependency will most definitely lead to problems. Although there is evidence that human activity to blame for climate change some people deny its very existence. Some of these people have perspectives that make sense, but lack scientific evidence to support their arguments. There should not be any debate or skepticism surrounding climate change because human activity is the problem.