Anthropogenic

regardless of cause (NASA: Evidence). The term climate change is often used to refer to anthropogenic climate change. Anthropogenic climate change is caused by human activity, one of the biggest causes of climate change (NASA: Evidence). It was found that human activities had the potential to drastically alter the climate. The term climate change replaced climatic change as the dominant term to reflect an anthropogenic cause. Certain human activities have been identified as primary causes of ongoing climate

Uncertainty and the Politics of Proving Climate Change Oreskes and Conway—in their book “Merchents of Doubt”— discuss the ways in which uncertainty within climate change research is used by sceptics to delegitimize the entire notion of anthropogenic climate change. Climate change deniers take advantage of reported uncertainty, claiming the evidence and conclusions of climate science studies lack legitimacy given their uncertainty. Additionally, climate change deniers claim that scientists alter research

issues such as dramatic changes in oceanic make-up and chemistry. Statistics and data collected has shown that ocean acidification will not only increase but accelerate over the next century. The ocean takes in about 1/3 of anthropogenic carbon added to the atmosphere. Anthropogenic carbon refers to the excess CO2 added to the ocean and atmosphere from human fossil fuel combustion, agriculture, and deforestation. Although much of the damage from human fossil fuel combustion is irreversible, if emissions

David Newell Climate Change Climate change has become one of the most crucial topics of discussion over the last 50 years. Its popularity, or rather infamousness, and lack of general consensus have caused it to be a subject that everyone knows, but few know well. Time may be running low, and with the effects being felt now more than ever, people are beginning to feel the need to make a real endeavor against global warming. Individual efforts are seemingly stronger and more widespread, but still

The Industrial Revolution took place during the 18th and 19th centuries. During this time mankind made the switch from hand-made to machine-made production methods. The steam engine, later replaced by the internal combustion engine, made this possible. The power source of these machines is burning fossil fuels, such as crude oil, natural gas, and coal. When fossil fuels are burnt, gases like carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and halocarbons are released. These are known as greenhouse gases

during the period of instrumental temperature record, when records are most reliable; particularly in the last 50 years, when human activity has grown fastest and observations of the troposphere have become available. The dominant mechanisms are anthropogenic, i.e., the result of human activity. They are: increasing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases global changes to land surface, such as deforestation increasing atmospheric concentrations of aerosols. There are also natural mechanisms

pollution in the ocean come from underwater explosions caused by sonar, seismic testing caused by oil and gas industries, or underwater sea quakes through natural events. The anthropogenic noises can cause deep-diving populations like beaked whales to be threatened and abandon their habitat and surface rapidly. Exposure to anthropogenic sounds negatively affect deep-diving cetaceans (Cox et al. 2006). There are a number of hypotheses for the injuries in the cetaceans that stranded in areas of sonar exercises

extreme events. Moreover, Out of 24 extreme events analyzed in this paper, 12 showed direct or indirect links to anthropogenic climate change and some could not be explained. Once a change has been detected it is important to attribute that change to some cause. Attribution, especially to human greenhouse gas emissions, gives confidence to model projections of the future driven by anthropogenic forcing as well as predictions of extremes at shorter time scales (Seneviratne and Zwiers, 2015). When an extreme

in the atmosphere have the ability to strongly influence both the transfer of radiation energy and special distribution of latent heating thus influencing the weather and climate. Aerosol particles originate from a wide variety of natural and anthropogenic sources. Aerosols can be grouped into primary and secondary particles. The primary particles are directly released from sources such as the incomplete combustion, volcanic eruption, human activities and wind-driven suspension of soil, dust, sea

which may intensify climate change induced effects and act synergistically to alter benthic community structure (Ateweberhan et al., 2013 and Smith et al., 2001). The impact of local stressors such as water pollution on coral health will rise as anthropogenic disturbances persist in the coastal environment. Nutrient pollution of coastal waters may arise from terrestrial non-point sources of N and P such as OSDS and fertilizer leachate. SGD is widely recognized as an important conduit for the transport