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    The rapid changes in the Earth’s climate are phenomenally impacting how people live on a day to day basis. Regardless of whether people choose to believe it or not, records have shown that vast changes in temperature and weather patterns have definitely occurred since the Industrial Revolution. Moreover, each year we continue to see and deal with harsher and more severe weather conditions. For example, recently here in Dallas, the weather has been completely out of the ordinary considering these

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    Human activity that impacts climate change is the main argument in the debate regarding the reality of climate change. A consensus agreed upon many scientists is that Earth’s climate is changing tremendously and humans are to blame for the change. The scientific evidence supporting these claims has grown and become reinforced in the past fifty years due to the arrival of computer models, ice core samples, and years of research to the causation of climate change (Rich and Warhol 2). “According

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    Climate change and its effects The most significant event to indicate climate change is the melting of the polar ice caps. The area of sea covered by the Arctic ice at the North Pole has shrunk by 10% in recent decades, and the thickness of the ice above the water has decreased by about 40%. On the other side of the world, the ice sheet above the Antarctic continent has become unstable. Glaciers are retreating all around the world. Since 1979, glaciers in the European Alps have lost about one-fifth

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    burst and power was lost to the entire island of Puerto Rico. 60 people died (“2017 Atlantic Hurricane”, 2017). Hurricanes, cyclones and typhoons play a major role in coastal disasters and could prove even more disastrous with the effects of climate change. Hurricanes form as warm moist air begins to rise over the sea surface and leaves a gap of low pressure underneath. High pressure air then fills this gap, heats up, and then rises again. This creates the cyclonic action (“How Hurricanes Form”

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    Wait, Climate Change is Real? 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

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    debates about the pros and cons of climate change and what are the causes and effects of climate change. There are those who argue that the rising levels of atmospheric greenhouse gases in our environment are as a direct result of human activities. Some activities that are at the top of the list include but are not limited to the burning of fossil fuels, the cutting down of our forest, these activities are causing significant and increasingly severe climate changes which include global warming. Global

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    Climate change has been gaining momentum for some time now and it has become popular enough to start mass debates. Climate scientists are pushing as hard as they can to spread awareness and it has become a topic of interest because of the way it can affect all of us. In this introduction of the book, Climate Change: What It Means For Us, Our Children, and Our Grandchildren, Joseph F. C. DiMento and Pamela Doughman try to convince the general public that understanding climate change is crucial and

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    Global warming and climate change will cause health problems for future generations. Climate change and global warming affect everyone. Polar bears are losing their homes due to global warming, and humans are forced to adapt to a continually changing environment. According to John Balbus, he mentioned “With the climate change can cause exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity which are associated with social and demographic factors” (Balbus n.p). Also, increase susceptibility to higher rates

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    attribute this to human-caused climate change. During President Obama’s State of the Union address in 2015, he stated that, “No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change,” (“Remarks by the President”). Warming temperatures caused by anthropogenic climate change have disastrous consequences that pose a threat to humanity and the environment. Scientists have given numerous warnings that human-caused, or anthropogenic, climate change is not only occurring now, but

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    Climate Change in Peru Essay

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    dire situation for Peru in terms of climate change and the effects it has on each individual system as well as the effects on wildlife and human occupants that live in these regions. In Peru, the climate changes that have been taking place have led to several disastrous outcomes that include not only draught, but have also led to depletion of the Amazon Rain Forest, an increase in disease, extreme temperature changes, glacial ablation, extreme weather, and changes in the

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