The Problem Of Climate Change

Along with global warming, factors such as population growth and increased demands, inefficient use of water resources, overuse of groundwater, mismanagement of water supply systems, misguided policies, and so on contributed to the occurrence of one of the worst droughts that California is experiencing in 2014-2015, which has a negative impact not only on environment, but also on social and economic sectors of California.

California’s climate emerged about a few thousand years ago. It rose from the interaction of the ocean currents and temperatures, air pressures, wind and storms patterns, and the location of mountains and valleys. The climate differs from its geographical landscapes and locations of neighboring states. This is largely because of its dominant maritime influence. Further climate diversity is found in the semiarid climates in much of the San Joaquin valley. California has four of the five major types of climate found around the world. California’s geographic diversity would begin to be matched by its human diversity. Earthquakes are another factor to why California is so diverse. People are always migrating into California from all over the world. Diversity effects many things in different kind of ways.

The climate in California is expected to become warmer in the next few decades, as stated above. It would cause five key threats to California: drought and wildfires, coastal danger, bad air days, spreading disease and loss of native fish.3

California's drought is a serious and ongoing event that leaves a lot of questions. Climate change is a big reason for drought (Valentine, Katie). About 20 percent of California's drought can be blamed on climate change, this was calculated by looking at how much water was evaporated each month from California's soil (Valentine, Katie). California's constant rising temperatures because of climate change and there already natural weather

Furthermore into detail, many have gone along with the climate change in California. When you look at the drought history, there wasn’t really a long break between the droughts. As mentioned, the last one started 8 years apart. Although California have received more than enough rain, Gov. Brown is going to continue the cutback in water by making the restriction permanent. Water would now only be used for the essential, such as no more watering the sidewalk to clean or no more car wash with hose without the nozzle (Farrington). He, and along other Californians, have realized how often the drought has occurred according to the previous drought

According to NASA studies The Great North American Mega Drought is predicted to happen within the next few decades (Howitt). California being one of the states heavily hit by this drought and it is already evident that the mega drought will happen. Central California was once one of the most fertile lands on the earth is drying up and the Sierra Nevada snow packs are melting away. The cause of the drought can be directly attributed climate change. The Ridiculously Resilient Ridge is an area of persistent high pressure that redirects moist subtropical air to the north. The ridge causes atmospheric water to flow around the pacific edge of California and move up north into Alaska and British Columbia. Leaving us with precipitation deficits and

The drought has a profound effect on California's weather, economy, and health. Unlike other natural disasters, droughts are a chronic issue that take place over several years and have a gradual impact (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2010). The duration and severity of the drought on affected areas have quite a few negative consequences to humans and other living beings (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,, 2010). Temperatures rising due to climate change prolongs droughts, which worsens air quality (Climate Change Threatens ….n.d.). A vicious cycle has started where we are creating more pollutants through various activities in everyday life; the environment

On September 7, 2016 – The State Water Resources Control Board announced today that urban Californians’ water conservation remained steady at 20 percent. This means California is going through a severe drought. In July, only one percentage point was lost in June’s savings of 21 percent. The July results come even after the state improved its water supply conditions. While many reservoirs have recovered, the Golden State is moving into its fifth year of drought. They call it the extreme drought according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. The drought covers 98% of California. More than 44% of California is in exceptional drought, the worst level of drought. California is the world’s fifth-largest supplier of food, yet it is still going through a drought. Another reason is because of the strong wind. The most problematic cause is because of global warming. The harsh heat makes the water evaporate. People in California wish for as much snow as for rain. This is because down the line, because of heat, the snowy weather becomes less every year.

California has been in an extreme drought for the past four years, and some people are stating that this “may be the worst arid spell in 1,200 years.” The land never fully recovers from any land disaster, like the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression.

The historic drought of California has been and still is one of the greatest problems California faces. It has lasted a whopping three years already. The drought started in early January and it shows no sign of ending anytime soon. This drought has farmers and many citizens being driven up walls because of the soaring water prices. This problem will only grow worse and should become a national concern or the whole nation will be in distress.

U.S. Secretary John Kerry calls, ” climate change can now be consider another weapon of mass destruction, perhaps the world’s most fearsome weapon of mass destruction” (Arshad Mohammed,2014). In fact, many scientists say that today in California’s drought get worse on the record, for example in 2015, more than 97 percent of California was involved in an average drought or worse. (Stephan Feller, 2016).I try to find some reaches about California’s drought because my family and I are living in California, where it is a significant state in economy and politics. In addition, California’s drought has an effect on everything our life and environment. For example, in 2015, my family felt the weather was too hot, dry and intense, so some of us were more stressed and got sick. Moreover, according to the article “Global Climate Change” heat waves cause more deaths in the USA every year than hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and earthquakes combined. For example, in the summer of 1995, according to Eric, Kleinberg (1995) reported” in Chicago , over seven hundred people had perished-more than twice the number that died in the Chicago Fire of 1871, twenty times the number of those struck by Hurricane Andrew in 1992—in the great Chicago heat wave, one of the deadliest in American history.” Drought in California affects us in many ways; as a result, we should know cause, effect and what to do about California’s drought.

It seems that climate change may be partly responsible for California’s crippling drought. A new study, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters , found that global warming, caused by human emissions, has intensified the drought during the period between 2012 and 2014 by 8 to 27 percent. The study also suggests an increased likelihood of future droughts due to climate change, posing a serious threat to California’s farming and agricultural industries.

The issue is simple and rather obvious; climate change is real and a problem. With a changing climate comes rising sea levels, hotter days, and stronger and wilder storms, and long painful droughts. What most people can’t seem to agree on is whether or not human activity is playing some role in it. From media outlets to internet forums, the debate is being fought on all fronts. Most of these arguments, however, are just personal opinions and poorly-made observations from the comfort of a gas-guzzling SUV. Honestly, it doesn’t take a genius to look up a legitimate scientific paper and see the data for yourself. Human activity is influencing the global climate in a negative way, with plenty of evidence to prove it and very little disagreement in the scientific community.

It considers threats and impacts associated with climate change could be reduced and handled through mitigation and adaptation. The report evaluates resilience, choices, opportunities, constraints, needs, limits, as well as other features connected with adaptation. Climate change requires shifting probabilities of impacts that are varied with complicated interactions. A focus on danger, which will be not old in this report, complements other aspects of the report and supports decision. Societies and individuals may view or rate possible gains and hazards otherwise, given aims and varied values. All-inclusive evaluation has been eased by increased works across a more comprehensive group of issues and sectors, with increased coverage of the ocean, variation, as well as human systems. (IPCC, 2014)

Introduction: The only place in our galaxy that we know is inhabitable is now being destroyed by man. As humanity has revolutionized we have created many problems along the way. The main problem we are facing right now is called global warming. We have damaged many ecosystems trying to better ourselves, and we have not yet once thought about the damage we are inflicting on our mother earth. We are already beginning to see the effects of global warming. It will make little changes that will have a huge impact, and devastate many ecosystems and everything living on earth.