Climate Change And Global Warming

During the past several hundred years, civilization has made rapid progress in industries like air travel, automobiles, and energy production. These developments were made without consideration of the long-term effects that their emissions may have on the planet. Changing weather patterns are now wreaking havoc around the world, and scientists 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.

In order to understand the issue of global warming (also referred to as climate change), you must first understand what it means and how it happens. Global warming is a result of a process known as the greenhouse effect, in which the light and heat from the sun are trapped in the Earth’s atmosphere by greenhouse gases; which subsequently raises the average temperature on Earth. The greenhouse gases responsible for this process are carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, chlorofluorocarbons, and tropospheric ozone, all of which are released into the atmosphere through naturally occurring processes (Warrick, R. & Farmer, G., 1990).

Global warming is a rising issue that is threatening our environment. It has caused significant changes in the climate that rapidly continues to get worse every day. Global warming is the gradual increase in the earth’s overall temperature which is caused by the greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect is the reason for increased quantities of gases such as chlorofluorocarbons, carbon dioxide, and other pollutants in the earth’s atmosphere. This atmospheric heating phenomenon causes temperatures to rise globally when the gases trap heat from the sun. The main cause of global warming is human activity.

Everybody in this day and age has an idea or at least a vague representation of what the term global warming is or what it entails, a simple definition culled from livescience.com explains global warming as follows “ Global warming is the term used to describe a gradual increase in the average temperature of the Earth’s atmosphere and its oceans, a change that is believed to be permanently changing the Earth’s climate”.

There are two terms that many people have been concerned about for many years now, which some people firmly believe will be the downfall of the Earth’s survival. Those terms are global warming and climate change. Although both terms are used interchangeably by some, they cover two different subjects that go hand in hand. There is extensive research done on both terms, with plenty of scientific evidence proving that both are occurring and are major problems. However, there is still an uncanny amount of people who claim that climate change and global warming is not real, and their reasoning is usually either unscientific or at times completely unreasonable. Their reasons are usually political, religious, or due to some form of being misinformed. This skepticism is a major problem because global warming is a threat and must be dealt with.

Global warming is a phrase that has been used in recent history that describes Earth’s surface temperature being warmed. Throughout history, there has been three global warming’s. They occurred in 1850; from about 1860-1880, 1915-1945, and 1975-1978 (see graph). The current warming was thought to have been generated by the discharge by man of carbon dioxide. All three of these periods of warming were divided into a period of universal cooling. The warming/cooling cycles, and their conjoined change in rain patterns are called climate change. Climate change has been happening for the past 11,000 years since the last ice age. Research has recently shown that this abrupt curve is probably a product of what is known as the “heat island effect” rather than be just called global warming. Overall, at its simplest, “climate change”- is simply known as global warming and “climate disruption.” Reason it is called a climatic disruption is because a phenomenon occurs that cause’s weather arrangement and temperatures too change to quickly and unknowingly on a universal scale. Global Warming is an occurrence of increasing average air temperatures close to the Earth’s exterior for over the past two centuries. Since the 20th century, weather scientists have assembled studies of different weather occurrences such as; temperatures, rain, and different kinds of storms. Also studies on the Earth’s ocean currents and the atmosphere’s overall chemical arrangement. This

Global warming and climate change have been frequent topics of discussion over the past several years. Although people tend to focus on the politics, it is important to look past the media aspects of it into the cold hard facts of what our Earth is currently experiencing, and what has caused it in the first place. The cause of climate change includes natural causes, but human causes are what is generating such a rapid global temperature change. It’s time that the ways in which humanity affects the Earth’s climate, how scientists record and measure the climate change, and what can be done in everyday life to slow it down and/or stop global warming, are recognized.

What is Global Warming? According to Dictionary.com, global warming is an increase in the earth's atmospheric and oceanic temperatures widely predicted to occur due to an increase in the greenhouse effect resulting especially from pollution. According to an article by National Geographic, “The earth as a whole is warming and since 1906 the global average surface temperature has increased between 1.1 and 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit. The effects of rising temperatures aren’t waiting for some far-flung future–signs of the effects of global warming are appearing right now. The heat is melting glaciers and sea ice, shifting precipitation patterns, and setting animals on the move.” (National Geographic)

Earth’s climate has been changed for hundreds of year dating back to the beginning of man to the ice age and today, and with that change came scientists who have been keeping track and gathering data on these changes in the climate. The climate is the source of life it provides a secure environment setting for life forms to thrive without a proper climatic setting life would begin to dwindle and eventually all life forms would go extinct. But why is the climate so important moreover exactly what is it that poses a threat to all life forms? Well to answer that question, the climate is the weather that makes up a certain environment. It is important because it is the main factor that aid in creating a natural habitat suitable for all

Climate change and global warming are terms often tossed around in common parlance by non-scientists in the western world as having a singular meaning: that the planet is warming up, that humans may (or may not) have caused it; that something must be done at once. Climate change is presented and discussed as a single phenomenon, disingenuous to its multifaceted nature. Complicated and sometimes seemingly random, climate change is both chaotic and complex, characterized by nonlinearity, feedback loops and emergent phenomena. Rind (1999) defines a complex system as one where there are “multiple interactions between many different components.” Earth’s climate is the same way: clouds, wind, precipitation, sunlight and geography—each affect climate, but each also affects the other, and so forth—interactions that form an intricate latticework of mutual dependency.

Earth is one of the most intriguing planets in our galaxy and especially in our universe. This planet is able to bear and sustain life on its surface and also has one of the most important compounds in the universe H2O. Earth has an abundant amount of water on its surface; making it the primary reason why life can survive. However, we humans that live on this planet are destroying it bit by bit. As human population continue to rise, the demand for fossil fuels also increases. The continuous use of fossil fuels has resulted in global warming and also pollution. Hydrocarbons when burned release CO2 into the atmosphere; in turn too much CO2 in the atmosphere heats up the planet. Global warming is slowly changing the earth’s climate at an alarming rate. Earth’s global temperature has risen 0.6 degrees Celsius since the 1900’s (Ahrens, 388). This steady increase in temperature has drastic effects on the hydrological, ecological, political, and economical systems all around the world. The issue of climate change and global warming isn’t centered on one nation or group; it is centered on all the nations around the world. So it is important to every citizen living on this planet. The purpose of this paper is to examine the potential effects of climate change will have on the ocean, agriculture, eco-systems, increasing global population, and geopolitical systems.

The terms “global warming”, “climate change” or “greenhouse effect” have become more than just parts of the popular lexicon as they rather are subject of public discussions, scientific research or political debates. Despite the popularity and the ubiquity of these terms, the public’s theoretical and conceptual understanding of them and their causal relations is often based on superficial knowledge and buzzwords or caricatures outlined and depicted in several popular media. To take account for the latent threat that global warming embodies to humanity, wildlife and the whole environment, it is important to understand the science behind this occurrences. This abstract describes in short the terms mentioned above,

Global warming is the warming of our planet at an extreme rate. The Earth’s climate has warmed by 7.8OC since 1880. (Quick facts about science, 2015). What causes global warming? The cause of global warming is the carbon dioxide. This acts like a blanket. Protecting the earth, and heating the earth. Sun rays would normally bounce around the earth, but with the blanket, the sun rays heat the blanket which heats the earth. (Petersen Science Text Book by G. Linstead, W. Clarke, 2015). “Of all the wealthy countries, we are probably the most vulnerable,” says Professor Will Steffen, executive director of ANU’s Climate Change Institute. “We’re locked into another 0.5OC temperature rise due to past emissions, but what we do between now and 2050 is crucial for the magnitude and rate of climate change later this century and beyond,” he says. (ABC, 2015) Figure 1.0 shows the percentage of carbon emissions being emitted into the atmosphere. Humans are contributing more and more to the amount of carbon dioxide being emitted into the atmosphere because every person now has a car and each car releases 9 kilograms of carbon dioxide into our atmosphere. Every factory has huge pipes, which are used to emit thousands of kilograms of carbon dioxide into our atmosphere. This is leading to the cause of global warming because carbon dioxide attracts heat from the sun, which acts as a blanket, like a green house. With the layers of

Humanity have become incognizant of the term ‘Global warming’, which has become increasingly popular over the past few years, due to the fact that extremists and alarmists over exaggerate scientific facts to utilize in their own favour. Its definition is “The hypothesis that Earth’s atmosphere is warming because of the relinquishment of ‘Poisonous gases’, such as carbon dioxide”. Contrary to popular credence, climate change and ecumenical warming does not subsist. Carbon Dioxide is far from being a poisonous gas that causes chaos on the earth 's environment, CO2 is controvertibly the Earth 's greatest asset in that numerous flora greatly benefits from incremented levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Environmental alarmists, eminent politicians and among them environmentalist journalists have an engender that if humans do not adhere to their radical agenda, then civilization will be threatened by environmental consequences from Global Warming. Decades of scientific studies have shown no consequential elevate in the average temperature of the earth for over 18 years (Bolt, 2015). Further investigation in the inceptions of climate change and global warming has shown that. The arctic ice, which for years has been described as “lost” to future generations has incremented, not melted (BBC, 2015), at an inconceivable rate of over 50% in the past 6 years. Because of farfetched incriminations from extremists and alarmists, our modern society has become incognizant of the scientific

Global climate change refers to the long-term alterations in the world 's average leading weather conditions such as precipitation, temperature, and the wind. In the view of the most authoritative climate watchdog, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the global average climatic conditions are drastically changing due to many factors. The body cites greenhouse gas (GHC) emissions as the primary of all the possible causes. The GHC emissions develop a glass roof that blankets the earth hence tapping and containing the heat that would easily escape to the space (Bradley, Keimig, Diaz, and Hardy). The assessment of global climate change relies on the changing precipitation and temperatures. Even