Arctic Concentration Of Climatic Processes

The article “Cold warriors,” Gregoire (2008) indicates that climate change leads to environmental issues and melting ice, and the scientists’ researches point out climatic issues in Canada. The author comes up with a point that everyone is responsible for protecting the environment because people around the world are bearing negative effects due to climate degradation. For example, residents in Grise Fiord and Inuit notice a huge differences, the landscape is becoming warmer, softer and unpredictable. Moreover, a greater risk of environmental pollution is caused by climate change. In addition to changes in environment, shrinking glaciers, earlier ice breakup, later freeze-up and less snow caused by warmer temperature bring double-edged effects

Stunted Again” written by Michael Pearson, the Earth is in trouble due to the decrease in Arctic

The Siberian tundra is basically melting away overtime, even though it has been frozen for tens of thousands of years. At such a fast rate it is speculated that it is influencing global warming. The landscape is changing fast. In the last three to four years, the underlying

Global warming persists as one of the world’s biggest issues today that is causing several problems that include the world’s severe climate and rising sea levels while possibly being the main cause as to why all of mankind could go extinct. This global crisis is known as the steady increase in the world’s average temperature of the earth’s atmosphere and oceans that are proven to be permanently changing the world’s climate (Live Science, 2014). This phenomenon is strongly evident as Earth’s temperature has also increased by 2 degrees Celsius since the last century. As a result of this, Canadian glaciers are melting at a higher rate of 2 to 3 feet than of what it was a decade before (Lerner, 2014). All astoundingly happening while the Artic Canadian permafrost has begun to melt (Davidson,2015). The state of this issue in Canada does not seem to be improving as validated through both the scientific evidence as well as the blatant and irrefutable observable evidence.

Kolbert provides compelling evidence of Global Warming in the Arctic from her hands-on experience accompanying scientists in the field. From the storm surges that threaten the Alaskan village of Sarichef to the warming (and even melting!) permafrost, the evidence all point to the irrefutable fact that the planet is warming up extraordinarily fast. In fact, the Keeling Curve gives us a rather explicit visualization of how greenhouse gases levels (CO2, in particular) are rising at unprecedented rates.

The rising heat levels from burning coal, oil and petroleum (cars) is having a huge influence on the planet as a whole, but most specifically the Arctic Tundra region. The planet has warmed up 0.5 degrees since global warming was first discovered and diagnosed, and, although that number might seem very minimal now, it is actually a huge jump in comparison to normalcy. This unnatural, manmade warmth has caused Arctic Tundra ice to melt, raising the oceans and flooding people’ homes and villages. This also destroys the Arctic Tundra area, due to the fact that there will be less and less ice, and thus less and less habitat for the animals that live in the Arctic Tundra area. This leads to the slow destruction and melt of planet Earth. The Arctic Tundra region is wholly an area of freshwater, locked up by permafrost. But now it is melting, going from beauteous ice to water. And there are some people who simply don’t care, like Donald Trump. They seem to think that as long as they can make as much money as possible, then the environment doesn’t matter, which is obviously not true. Humans actually need to care now, today, not a hundred years into the future when the average temperature is 35 degrees on a normal day. This is one of the possible, albeit farfetched, implications of continuing processing plants and coal mines. The smog and heat they produce is detrimental in every single way to the Arctic Tundra region. Global warming is the second and largest danger the Arctic Tundra region

Global warming is known as a slow increase in temperature over the course of an extended period of time (Simpson, 2009). Canadians have long seen this term being used across the media on a whim, but could one imagine that one of the countries most responsible for the crisis is Canada? Global warming is affecting Canadians at an unsettling rate, a notable example being the Lowell Glacier of Kluane National Park, B.C. This glacier has been losing 22 cubic kilometres of ice a year- about 22 billion cubic metres of water. Thus, specialists decided on methods to slow melting, the best solution being to cut down on “human consumption of fossil fuels” (“Unprecedented B.C glacier melt seeps into U.S climate change concerns”, 2014). Regardless of its resolution, Canada will never be able to do enough to completely solve the issue of global warming without making compromises. However, Canadians have been taking the issue more seriously. Three factors exist that

In one of the anecdote about Al gore’s trip to North Pole to measure ice thickness, Booker reported, “The men going on this expedition had to be airlifted back because the ice was too thick to measure with an electronic instrument” (Booker, 2015). In addition, Booker also provide another anecdote that shows “Canadian scientists studying the effect of climate change on Arctic ice ..had to suspend their research because their vessel was trapped in the thickest summer ice” (Booker 2015). With these two anecdotes, Booker believe the Arctic has not experienced the effects of climate change because the Arctic is still seen as a very cold, dangerous place. Empirically speaking, it is difficult to conduct research by sending humans to measure glaciers’ thickness in the Arctic, but this difficulty does not disprove any of the satellites data supporting the effects of climate change. The informations we have yet to find can not dismiss the evidences we do have that support how climate change is affecting ocean sea levels and

Environmental change in the Arctic has been a subject of recent interest within the discourse of global warming, climate change, and indigenous rights; however, scholars have yet to examine the importance of 20th century racial, cultural, and environmental interactions within Northern Canada. Specifically, the Northern areas of Ontario, Quebec, and Manitoba provide interesting and important issues that are critical to current discussions of global warming, climate change, and water rights and quality because of their location to the Hudson Bay and the intertwined environmental experience. Unlike other areas of Northern Canada, areas in Northern Quebec, Manitoba, and Ontario are subject to multiple political systems (i.e. provincial, federal,

On the 42 minute the video says, “A limited number of species is present.” This shows that there is no food for the Inuits to hunt and therefore they can’t eat. This also proves that there is still a few species in the Arctic to keep them living for a little while longer. On the 42 minute the video states, “If temperatures rise even a little, plants flower earlier in the year.” This proves that the longer the global warming is, the more the environment changes. When winter ends, the less time the Inuits will have to hunt. This also means that the ice can melt sooner and become thinner which complicates the techniques of the Inuits. They may need to change their hunting techniques to survive their new climate and environment. On the 37 minute the video says, “Not even any bearded seals.” “The weather must not be too good.” and on the 38 minute the text states, “Great spot. Surely there are caribou around here. There’s food for them over there.” This shows that the climate has to be right to look for certain animals. The seals and caribou could be migrating. The warmer weather may have some impact on the animals and the Inuit’s way of hunting them. In conclusion, why global warming is significant to the Inuit is because there is no food for the Inuits to survive, it changed

The first argument examined on the man-made global warning side is that increasing greenhouse gases caused by human activities is causing directly observed climate changes. The first resulting climate change discussed is warming global surface temperature. There has been an increase in global surface temperature of 0.74 degrees C since the late 19th century. In the last 50 years alone the temperature has increased by 0.13 degrees C per decade. North America and Eurasia have seen the largest increase in warmth. However, some areas of the earth have actually cooled some this past century (Easterling & Karl, 2011, para6). After the mid 20th century 70% of the global land mass saw reduced diurnal temperatures. From 1979 to 2005 the maximum and minimum temperatures have shown no change; both indicate warming (Easterling & Karl, 2011, para10). Furthermore, borehole temperatures, snow cover, and glacier recession data all seem to agree with recent warming (Easterling & Karl, 2011, para11).

Greetings, my name is Syed Raza and today I am representing the provinces and the territories in North of Canada. We will be discussing about the predicted and current changes caused by global warming to the environment of Yukon, North West Territories and Nunavut. My aim is to discuss the top three important environmental changes for which Canada and its people need to develop adaptation plans. Well, surprisingly global average temperature has increased by 2C to 4C in the past 55 years. Moreover, the precipitation has increased the most in the north, rising by 61 percent in the Arctic Tundra and by 32 percent in the Arctic Mountains. Added to this, it is expected for the temperature to rise 2C more by 2020 and 4C by 2050, affecting the natural

At the present rate of global warming most of the frozen portions of the Arctic may disappear by the end of this century.

As Earths average temperature increases every year, the discussion of climate change has become a significant topic in the scientific community. Human activities such as powering factories, running automobiles or something as simple as burning wood for heat, emit dangerous greenhouse gases. What makes these greenhouse gases so detrimental is that they absorb the heat radiating off of Earth and keep it in the lower atmosphere creating a “blanket” of warmth around the Earth’s surface. This causes a drastic increase in the Earths average temperature. Due to the rise in temperature, the polar caps have been melting faster than ever, this is dangerous not only because of the risk of floods and sea level increase but ocean water will become less saline and ecosystems will be destroyed, impacting humans just as much as marine life. In the article, Understand faulty thinking to tackle climate change by George Marshall, Marshall states that most people in our world today do not care about climate change because it will not affect them, “Which points to the real problem: climate change is exceptionally amorphous, … no deadlines, no geographic location, no single cause or solution.” (Marshall 2014). Because the author makes it clear that climate change is indeed a great plight, and fails to be acknowledged by people, it is a significant matter that should be discussed

The Arctic is global warming’s canary in the coal mine. It is a highly sensitive area which is profoundly affected by the changing climate. The average temperature in the Arctic is rising twice as fast as elsewhere in the world (nrdc.org). Because of this, the ice cap is getting thinner, melting away, and rupturing. Here is an example of this; the largest ice block in the Arctic, the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf, had been around for 3000 years before it started cracking in 2000 (nrdc.org) By 2002, the Ward Hunt has cracked completely through and had started breaking into smaller pieces. The melting ice caps are affecting the earth and its inhabitants in many ways. In this paper, the following concepts and subjects will be