The Pros And Cons Of Climate Change

Climate change has become a major issue in global environmental politics as it has been shown to have a correlation with issues such as deforestation, biodiversity loss, and desertification. As Chapter 45 states “The 2007 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) found consensus in the scientific community that greenhouse gas emissions have significantly increased because of human activity and, further, that the modest temperature increases we have already experienced are “very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations.” Due to this report awareness was brought to almost everyone of how serious human activity was to the global climate. In 2009, it was declared that “If global warming is to be limited to a maximum of two degrees C. above preindustrial values, global emissions need to peak between 2015 and 2020 and then decline rapidly”. To me this sounds foreboding and it is something that deserves our full attention immediately. To try and get a better understanding of how serious climate change is, I’m going to try and interpret chapter 45 which deals on climate change through 5 different paradigms of International Relations.

Climate change conspirators/deniers is a problem to today’s population. Climate change is defined as any irregularities in earth’s weather (NASA, 2017). Individuals who deny the scientific facts that are climate change is an interesting subset of the population. Climate change conspiracy theories typically challenge the scientific proof and ultimately claim that climate change is a hoax. The reasons these individuals give vary. For one, a major claim is that climate change is natural and not a result of human behaviour/consumption patterns. Another main argument is that the science is not reliable. Despite both, and hundreds of other arguments against climate change being proven wrong, these deniers continue to believe that climate change does not exist. The primary conspiracy theory that will be focused on is the belief that climate change is a sham. Two research questions that would help understand why individuals choose to believe this conspiracy theory are: are there any common demographics among climate change deniers; and, how is this belief perpetuated in the media?

President Trump, will the United States, will be the only government to take an opposing view on Globe warming. According to the CNN reporter, Michael Mann, Syria has offered to join in on the Paris climate agreement. Luckily, a new report released by two credible and major organizations on climate change, the US National Climate Assessment, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Mann reports, “a massive report assembled by hundreds of our nation's best scientists.” is keeping the shot light on the Trump administration.

Environmentalists believe that climate change is a significant issue that the government needs to work on it. Scientists have explained that many events including drought, flooding, severe weather, rising sea levels, acidifying rains, and wildfires have affected people’s lives and the planet due to climate change. Climate change is caused by increasing heat in the atmosphere. The consumption of fossil fuels and other emissions are trapping carbon dioxide in the air, which increases the temperature and the more carbon dioxide humans produce the more the environment rises in temperature (Meyer, 2017). The hotter temperature affects environment, economy, health, and security. For example, people who live near coal mines are at higher risk to get asthma than other places, or fishermen suffer from ocean acidification because their income is heavily relying on fishing (Frank, 2012). These two examples indicate that climate change is threatening the environment and can create disruptions.

Studies held in Svalbard have shown that the reindeer population has been decreasing it’s body mass. Reindeer born in the 1990’s weighed about 121 pounds, and those born in 2010 weighed about 106 pounds. This issue is a direct result of climate change, which is the expansion of the greenhouse effect, that is being caused by the doings of humans. Climate change indicates warmer winters means more rain. When the rain freezes, it creates a thick layer of ice above their food, which prevents the reindeer from eating, and creating serious competition for other food. The hungry females either aren’t able to give birth or produce babies that are much tinier.

The world is full of controversial topics. One topic has been discussed for nearly decades among the American people. The conversation on the matters of climate change has plagued the nation. Americans have set a record high for the level of concern toward climate change. Up eight percentage points, an average of forty-five percent of Americans are greatly worried about climate change and the effects that it will have on the earth (Gallup 2017). Recently, the cause of climate change has become a hot topic. Climate change can be generally defined as the changing weather patterns over a long period of time. Usually when people discuss global warming, they are actually referring to climate change since global warming is the change in the temperature of earth’s surface, one factor in climate change. Other factors of climate change include but are not limited to: changes in precipitation, severe weather patterns, and changes in the earth’s oceans. A definite answer to how these changing factors, or whether these changes are occurring, has not been presented, but that does not mean that there have not been attempts. Many people and groups of people have offered their personal opinions. Some simply share opinions with the partisan, political, group they belong to while some spend countless hours researching to form their own opinions. This has led to a melting pot of conflicting opinions. The American people have created a divide among themselves by arguing over whether climate

Alleged Global Warming has been a hot topic and been widely reported in the American media since the 1970s. In March 2014, TED, a nonprofit committed to expanding ideas with short talks, gave a powerful presentation of the alleged current consequences of Global Warming in Gavin Schmidt’s (2014) talk: The emergent patterns of climate change. His claims are stark and he implores his audience to take the grave predictions of Global Warming seriously and not just write it off as insignificant. While Google Trends (2014) shows (graph 1) that search terms for global warming in the United States (red) have decreased while worldwide (blue) interest (image 1) fluctuates with India showing the most curiosity. Yet, not everyone agrees that Global

Those in power, who believe climate change is a myth, are dangerous for humankind, the environment, and the future as well. Specifically focusing on Trump, who has been in office for a few days, and those he choose to be in various government positions, together, they have already done more damage than good towards the environment. The decisions Trump, and Scott Pruitt (head of the Environmental Protection Agency) made with freezing the EPA's aid negatively affects poverty-stricken areas, like Flint, Michigan. By making drastic decisions without even considering those in America without clean drinking water, highlights that not only is the environment neglected, but also helpless people. While the denial of climate change is present, environmental racism is at work as well.

Richard Hilderman, who has a P.H.D in microbiology, said “The 20th Century has been warmer than any other time period in the last 400 years” (60+). Climate change has been brought upon by the burning of fossil fuels, which releases greenhouse gases (Hilderman 60+). The greenhouse gases then make a “blanket” surrounding the earth, which traps heat, making the world warmer (Hilderman 60+). Even though there are some overstated facts regarding climate change, policies to stop it would have a positive effect on the job and economic market, and climate change is the most pressing issue of today that needs more attention and worldwide policies to combat it.

Everyone is being lied to! Everyone believes in man-made climate change when it’s not even real. I’m here to tell you the truth. These reasons explain how everyone wastes their time and energy worrying about climate change. They waste their money on projects that don’t help, people believe in the politicians that started the lie, and the miners lose their jobs. I’m going to talk to you about climate change.

there has been many documented reports on climate change. There are still many people who believe that climate change is false. Most skeptics say that global warming is just one of Earth's many global cycles. They say they will have a stretch of Ice Age then swinging from massive glaciers to normal heat that is bearable to live in. You can hear this argument for many people from relatives and friends to even people on the news.Berkeley a nonprofit research and suit folks on climate change has released a paper on global warming hiatus. In 2015 Berkeley Starpointe now modern buoys that measure ocean temperatures tend to report slightly cooler temperatures than older ship-based systems even when measuring in the same parts of the ocean at same

Climate change is a subject that has sparked much debate in recent years, but for those who have come to the realization that this is truth know that the effects on our planet can lead to much devastation. However, in Iceland researchers have uncovered a method that could help slow down, if not turn around climate change by turning the greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, into rock deep underground. Results from their research show that injecting the gas into volcanic rock leads to a new carbonate material, and this has the potential of locking up that gas forever.

There is an issue on this planet that will define this generation. The issue is climate change. Global warming. A world on the collapse as our oceans are acidified, our air polluted, our forests disappearing, and human rights issues getting worse. It seems that people are not aware of how big climate change actually is. It’s not something that only takes place on the ice caps or in the forests on the far corners of the world. This is an issue that happens here, and now. It’s real. It’s happening.

Take a deep breath and imagine it is Sunday morning. The birds are chirping, the air is crisp with freshness, and the sun is radiating at a perfect temperature of 62 degrees. The coast is a 6-minute drive away, and this is the perfect day to take a short journey to the rocky shore and splash in the water. However, there is one problem, an action such as driving to the beach front will almost certainly contribute to the destructive effects of climate change. Due to this claim, is it then morally obligatory to not go on this Sunday morning drive in an effort to prevent greenhouse gas emissions?

All levels of government are actively involved in many scientific and technological issues, such as climate change and man’s role in the condition of our environment. In this activity you will research climate change and view some federal, state, and local policies, as well as initiatives for private business. You then will be asked to decide who would be most effective in taking the lead in creating and implementing policies to reduce the human causes of climate change.