...Argumentative Essay Is global climate change man made? Some would argue that climate changes are just stages of the Earth or doesn’t exist at all. Most would say that with all the people in the world and all the things that they do to Mother Nature that climate change is a man-made problem. In this essay, I’m going to explain both sides of the argument and give some facts about why they think that. First off, I think that climate change is man-made and it is from careless people on the earth that don’t think about the effects of things they do in the long run. We all leave some sort of carbon footprint. With population growing and getting out of control most people don’t realize a lot of the things they do are harmful to the planet. With more people, there is a need for more places to stay. People need homes and land so one of the major factors in climate change is deforestation. Another factor is the burning of fossil fuels like oil, natural gas, and coal. These energy resources are burned for electricity or refined to be used as heating or transportation usages. “Over the past 20 years, nearly three-fourths of human-caused emissions came from the burning of fossil fuels.” These things all have to do with letting too much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. This is one of the major reasons of temperatures getting warmer. “Humans have increased atmospheric CO2 concentration by a third since the Industrial Revolution began.” Another factor in climate change is the release of Methane...
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...Cynthia Martinez Professor Holden English 1A 28 April 2014 Climate Change Over the years, there has been scientific evidence that shows the dangerous effects of climate change. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, they define climate change as the change in global climate patterns that are increasingly apparent from the mid to late 20th century onwards and attributed largely to the increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide produced by the use of fossil fuels. The evidence of climate change has become more apparent and has increased its affects throughout the years and cannot go unnoticed any longer. This controversial issue is very important to take a stand on creating a better future for the world and get U.S. leaders to start the change in slowing down climate change while preparing for the worse. Since Earths formation 4.5 billion years ago we have experienced many different climates that range from sudden warming and cooling periods throughout decades. The world is constantly changing various examples are that seas have risen or fallen meters, jungles have spread or shrunk, and ice caps have melted all who have corresponded to the natural climate cycle (“Climate Change”). There have been global climate changes that have broken records from the past 1,000 years. These changes have happened from the use of atmospheric greenhouse gases and fossil fuels. Greenhouse gases are caused from heat being trapped in the atmosphere from the gas which warms the planet...
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...Despite the fact that a recent study published suggests that we may have overestimated the period of time that it took the climate to change in the distant past, as in it may’ve progressed at a similar rate to today’s rates, it doesn’t confirm this and the study is more aimed toward the scientific community as opposed to the general, uneducated public. And even if today’s rate of climate change is completely non anomalous, climate change denial still entails some very dangerous beliefs, such as the belief that we can continue to destroy the rainforests, or that there’s no problem with throwing absurd amounts of carbon dioxide into our atmosphere with no negative consequences, or believing that we won’t eventually run out of oil. These beliefs are in fact, not the case. It should be obvious that...
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...How Climate Changes Have Affected Human Evolution Abstract This paper explores the link that changing climates and human evolution share. As climates change in the world then all living things must adapt accordingly or become extinct. I will go over some examples on how lifestyle changes were necessary for survival when climate these changes occur. 1 Climate changes can be seen around the world on a daily basis. No matter where you go you can hear somebody say the old phrase, just wait five minutes and the weather will change. Climate changes have been happening since the beginning of time and are not going to stop anytime soon. As human beings we have to adjust to the climate changes because the climate definitely is not going to adjust to us. In the article I decided review it talked about is how the climate has affected how humans have evolved. All kinds of climate changes can affect how humans and animal live on a daily basis. The article stated something that really made me stop and think. It said that when change happens, animals have a choice to either keep doing what they are doing now, become extinct, or change to adapt to the new way of life. (Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. N.D.). This was so simply stated but encompasses everything about evolution. With all the climate changes in climate, even today, we are going to have to change the way we live in the future or eventually become extinct. ...
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...The way that humanity reacts to climate change may do more damage to many areas of the planet than climate change itself, says a new study published in Conservation Letters by Conservation International's Will Turner and a group of other leading scientists. The paper "Climate change: helping nature survive the human response," looks at efforts to both reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and potential action that could be taken by people to adapt to a changed climate and assesses the potential impact that these could have on global ecosystems. In particular it notes that one fifth of the world's remaining tropical forests lie within 50 kilometers of human populations that could be inundated if sea levels rise by 1 meter. These forests would make attractive sources of fuel-wood, building materials, food and other key resources and would be likely to attract a population forced to migrate by rising sea levels. About half of all Alliance for Zero Extinction sites -- which contain the last surviving members of certain species -- are also in these zones. "There are numerous studies looking at the impacts of climate change on biodiversity, but very little time has been taken to consider what our responses to climate change might do to the planet, " Turner said. The paper notes that efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by constructing dams for hydropower generation can cause substantial damage to key freshwater ecosystems as well as to the flora and fauna in the...
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...ideological reasons to undermine trust in the science base for regulation. Three of these “experts” happened to be all physicists: Bill Nierenberg, Fred Sietz and Fred Singer. Nierenberg and Seitz worked on the atomic bombs. They were also involved on topics like acid rain, tobacco smoking, global warming and pesticides. The book claims that these scientists challenged and diluted the scientific consensus in various fields including: dangers of smoking, the ozone layer, effects of acid rain and climate change. The evidence is there. Smoking does kill. Acid rain is caused by pollution. The glaciers are melting and the seas are rising due to the effects of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. I am not shocked that many scientists and tobacco companies have lied to us over the years about their products and their effects. I can remember less than 5 years ago, reading a magazine with that had a Newport cigarette ad. The ad had a...
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...Arguments against anthropogenic climate change. • The temperature recordings are unreliable. • Global warming or climate change has become politicized which has closed down the debate on whether or not climate change is anthropogenic, in other words it creates a wealth of money that forces scientists to conform or lose their jobs. Those who believe that the change within the climate has no correlation with human activity have an abundant supply of never ending answers as to why climate change is not induced by mankind. One such argument that skeptics propose is that the temperature recordings that have been collected over the past century and even longer are inaccurate due to 9 out of every 10 weather stations failing to comply to their own...
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...Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. It has the third-biggest planetary range and fourth-biggest planetary mass in the Solar System. Uranus is comparative in piece to Neptune, and both have distinctive mass synthetic creation from that of the bigger gas titans Jupiter and Saturn. Hence, researchers regularly characterize Uranus and Neptune as "ice monsters" to recognize them from the gas goliaths. Uranus' climate, albeit like Jupiter's and Saturn's in its essential creation of hydrogen and helium, contains more "frosts, for example, water, smelling salts, and methane, alongside hints of different hydrocarbons. It is the coldest planetary air in the Solar System, with a base temperature of 49 K (−224.2 Celsius), and has a perplexing, layered...
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... This paper will examine the advantages and disadvantages of global warming as well as the preventative measures our society can take to stop the progress of global warming. And finally, decide whether global warming is a lie or a hoax. There are many disadvantages to global warming. Global warming spreads diseases, as northern countries warm, disease carrying insects migrate north, bringing plague and disease with them. Global warming also causes warmer waters, which means more hurricanes. Some areas of our planet will suffer serious droughts and heat waves. Africa will be hit the most with more severe droughts expected in Europe. There are also going to be economic consequences, hurricanes can cause billions of dollars in damage and diseases cost money to treat. Polar ice caps will melt. This melting of ice caps will raise sea levels. The melting will also throw the ecosystem out of balance. The ice caps are fresh water so when they melt they will make the ocean less salty. The rising temperatures will endanger the survival of several species. The ice caps are white so they reflect the sun’s rays back out to space. If the ice caps melt, the darker colors will warm the climate even further. There are going to be more floods. As the climate changes warm water will occupy more space than cold water, which makes the seas surface level rise. The coastal communities will be wiped out. There are going to be more fires and wild fires. The carbon dioxide from...
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...Although climate change will very likely be the greatest challenge our succeeding generation has to face, it remains today an extremely contentious issue, polarising opinion in countries and scientific communities worldwide. It is also a cause that has been hijacked by interest groups, journalists and politicians alike, with many claiming that its effects have been blown out of proportion. One thing, however, is certain; the divisiveness of the issue stems largely from our yet limited understanding of climate change and global warming. Thus, for the purpose of answering this question, I will use the framework of understanding of knowns, unknowns, and known- unknowns as utilised by global militaries in decision analysis, to examine the effects of climate change and how we can better prepare for it. What are the knowns about climate change in relation to our country? As any casual observer can discern, Singapore is bordered on all directions by water, with a 200 kilometer coastline. Quite appropriately, many have cited the rising sea level - caused by global warming- as the foremost danger that climate change poses to our nation. The median sea level has been estimated to have risen at the rate of about three millimetres every year from per year for the decade 1993- 2003 ; this, when taken in consideration together with the near- flat topography of Singapore, would surely be a cause for concern. The effects of rising sea- levels on our small island- nation are not difficult...
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...Earth-like climate that could support life. The team actually found three new planets orbiting the star 44 light years away, but only one of them is in the so-called Goldilocks Zone, the band around a sun where temperatures are neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water to exist. "The star HD 40307 is a perfectly quiet old dwarf star, so there is no reason why such a planet could not sustain an Earth-like climate," said Guillem Angla-Escude from Germany's University of Goettingen, who led the research with Mikko Tuomi at the University of Hertfordshire in Britain. The planet has a mass at least seven times that of Earth but it orbits at about the same distance from its sun, meaning it receives a similar amount of solar energy as Earth gets. More than 800 planets have been discovered outside our solar system since the first was detected in the early 1990s, but only a handful of those have been in the habitable zone. Even more rare are planets in the zone that rotate, as this one does, to create a day-time and night-time, which increases the chance of an Earth-like environment. Those that don't spin are said to be tidally locked, with one half in constant darkness. "This is the closest one to Earth in a habitable zone that is not tidally locked," University of Hertfordshire astronomer Hugh Jones told Reuters. "Just as Goldilocks liked her porridge to be neither too hot nor too cold but just right, this planet, or indeed any moons that it has, lie in an orbit...
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...Global warming is largely attributed to human activities that emit greenhouse gases to the atmosphere rather than the natural causes. The greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide are the main causes of global warming since presence in the atmosphere leads to absorption of heat energy from the sun rather than emitting it to the space (Silver 135). The issue of climate change is a global concern since affects all regions and not just the countries where there are huge emission of greenhouse gases. Despite this, the initiatives to control global warming mainly lie with the governments, environmental organizations, and industries whereas there is little input of the individuals. These agencies are characterized with deep information about the consequences of global warming that is linked to strong intervention practices adopted. There are numerous researches conducted on global warming and consequences whose discussions are embraced in government and environmental agencies. Greater success of intervention practices would be achieved through increased involvement of the people. Since the knowledge of global warming impacts is influential to the development of control measures, greater understanding of the impacts of global warming would be instrumental to attain increased involvement of individuals in intervention practices. Global warming causes extreme temperatures, which affect quality of life and could be unbearable to people and other living organisms in highly affected regions...
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... Sea Turtles threatened with extinction A lot of species are endangered because of global warming and more specifically the Sea turtle, which is the oldest species known in the world (Velaquez-Manoff 2007); it lived during the dinosaurs. Now the change of the climate threatens these species, and if we don’t do something in a hurry, this species will disappear. The increasing temperature (more than 2 degrees these last years) have an impact directly on the turtle’s eggs (Velaquez-Manoff 2007, Brahic 2007). The problem is that more females than males are born; that means the future will be difficult for reproduction. According to WWF (2007), it’s not only the future population which is in peril, because there is also habitat loss and degradation, pollution, disease because of human and marine pollution, and natural predators. As Bhattacharya (2007) said, we need to do something and we can already cut emissions of greenhouse gases, employ new energy efficient technology and use strategies to sequester carbon dioxide from atmosphere. These examples will decrease the effect of global warming, and that is good for the sea turtle. In Bhattacharya’s article, she said that global warming is the change of climate, this is due to all the different activities due to human which increased...
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...it makes on human behavior and motivations. When taken at face value, the metaphor can be used to explain broad resource issues that nations are still dealing with today, such as global climate change and the use of natural resources. However, when closely inspected, its generalization about the community-shared commons is not as accurate. Garret Hardin's article has received vast critical acclaim and is considered one of the finest works regarding natural resource issues. In his article, Hardin claims that all commonly owned resources are doomed to destruction. This is due to the fact that men are greedy, and instinctively pursue their own best interests. Given is an example involving a common pasture open to all, in which it is expected that every herdsman is going to try keep as many cattle on the commons as possible in-order to try make the most profit. However as the commons is overgrazed productivity goes down causing each herdsman to add more cattle in an attempt to bring their profits back up. It is in this desire for self-interest that the tragedy of the commons occurs. The Tragedy of the Commons metaphor is best understood when applied to large-scale resource issues. In order to do so, the community commons Hardin referred to must be expanded to a more global context. Climate change is an excellent example of the Tragedy of the Commons on a larger scale. In addition to resource exploitation, the metaphor also applies to pollution. In the pollution scenario, instead...
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...this seems a very dull concept, but by looking deeper into geological principles and processes, fascinating information can be revealed about the world we currently inhabit and how it has developed over time. The north east of England, in particular, is of great interest to to geologists, in this essay it is assumed to encompass, the counties of Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, County Durham and Tess Valley. Studying the processes that have shaped and changed the earthʼs surface and sub-surface, makes it possible to place major geological events on a timescale, dating back approximately 4600 million years (Ma). The development of radioactive dating, along with the study of prehistoric life, stratigraphy and structural geology has had a major impact on the accuracy and detailing of this timescale. The earth consists of four main layers that lie in concentric circles: the innermost layer being a solid inner core, followed a liquid core, the mantle and the upper crust. It is an active planet and changes in its lithosphere: its crust and upper most mantle, are constantly occurring due to a fundamental geological cycle, this is known as the rock cycle. A combination of plate tectonics and the water cycle, drive the rock cycle, both of which, force rocks out of their equilibrium conditions, subjecting them to unfamiliar environments and causing a change in their structure. There are many individual rock types that can be split up into three main groups: Sedimentary The main type of rock...
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