Climate Change : Global Warming

In the year 1620, the Pilgrims took a high-risk voyage on the Mayflower to North America. After reading the historical narrative, “Of Plymouth Plantation” by William Bradford, I would join Bradford's expedition because he was religious and open to trying new things. William Bradford quickly turned into a courageous man in America. Personally, I would've preferred to be a part of the Plymouth voyage over the Jamestown voyage.

Over the history of earth there have been natural climate changes, however the current changes are accelerated as the way we treat our planet enhances the natural progression of the earth's warming and cooling cycle. In Bill Nye’s book, “Unstoppable,” he shares tales of proof that climate change is real, and offers solutions of how to help prevent it. But with new advances and discoveries, we find ourselves facing new problems with unknown solutions.

William Shakespeare, one of the most prolific playwrights of all time, has a select number of elite plays. One such play, Macbeth, tells the story of a brutal, 11th Century, Scottish power struggle. Towards the beginning of the theatrical, a legendary battle occurs, and subsequently, a military captain tells the king, Duncan, how the campaign transpired. The Captain's’ monologue, recounting to Duncan the timeline of the bloodshed is vital to the play as a whole, due to it setting a bloody precedent for the rest of the theatrical to follow.

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).

The Pardoner: a character in Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, is a deceitful character, who cheats people into giving him money in return for “absolving” their sins. Throughout the General Prologue, the prologue to his story, and his own tale, the Pardoner shows his malicious personality.

In the early 20th century people knew that they could cause changes to their local climates by, for example, leveling large portions of forests and over ploughing fields; but very few thought human action could affect the global climate. It wasn’t until 1958 that humans began to record measurements of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which revealed an increasing amount. This new data scientists were recording supported the idea of global climate change as real and that increased green house gases in the atmosphere would in fact cause the world’s climate to become warmer. In the 1980’s the world’s global temperature started to climb at a faster pace than seen before which helped the issue gain attention among the public, the scientific community,

Global warming is defined as the recent increase in the world 's temperature that is believed to be caused by the increase of certain gases (such as carbon dioxide) in the atmosphere. There are many different theories on whether global warming is similar or not to climate change. Simplistically, climate change is different because climate change is defined as a change in global or regional climate patterns or, in particular, a change 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, having been measured over long periods of time, due to the changes in Earth’s orbit and organic carbon which reflect sunlight. Global warming and climate change are not to be confused because global warming is caused mainly by anthropogenic factors like the emission of carbon dioxide gas and use of fossil fuels whereas climate change is completely natural, however, according to Milan Radovanovic, “it is clear that the anthropogenic factors dominate the increasing temperature and the natural ones have the maximum influence…” (Radovanovic). Therefore, “the contribution to global warming from natural forcings and from natural internal variability is in the range between -0.2 to 0.2 [degrees] celsius over the period 1951-2010…” (Radovanovic). Natural factors have had the most effect on global temperature in the past 59 years totaling a 0.4 degrees celsius increase in

Until the 1960s, scientists began to look closely at the possibility of fixture carbon dioxide (C02) admission on global temperature and began to realize the bigger catastrophe that could affect the future. NASA’s Global Climate Changes researcher show a few degrees rise in the Earth’s temperature will melt the Arctic ice caps and raised the sea levels (Arctic Sea Ice Minimum). When the sea levels are raise higher than the normal levels, it will flood our mainland by sweeping away homes and anything in its path. It wasn’t until 1975 when the phrase “global warming” was noticed by the community because of the trend in temperature slipping. In 1988 was the hottest year on record, and the rise of weather changing got peoples ' attention. A report by the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) suggests “there is a discernible human influence on global climate” (Working Group I: The

The Earth's climate has changed throughout history. According to the findings of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the change of the earth’s climate has evolved through time. The global sea level rose about eight inches in the last century; the planet's average surface temperature has risen about 2.0 degrees Fahrenheit since the last 19th century; the oceans have absorbed much of this increased heat of 0.302 degrees Fahrenheit since 1969; the increasing number of record high temperature and intense rainfall events since 1950; and the overall increase of ocean acidification by about 30 percent. Most of these climate changes are attributed to very small variations in Earth’s orbit that change the amount of solar energy our planet receives. The heat-trapping nature of carbon dioxide and other gases was demonstrated in the mid-19th century. There is no question that increased levels of greenhouse gases cause the Earth to warm in response.

In the last 100 years, Earth’s average temperature has risen by 1.4°F. The rising global temperatures have caused changes in weather and climate. Global warming refers to the ongoing rise in the average temperature near Earth’s surface. This is causing a climate change, which refers to any significant change (major change in temperature, precipitation, or wind patterns) in the measures of climate lasting for an extended period of time (several decades or longer). Due to this, it is projected that the temperature will rise from 2 to 11.5°F in the next hundred years (US EPA, 2014). The “drivers,” which are the principal causes making this occur, are very controversial. It is debated whether a change in temperature is due to the work of

Over the years there has been a lot of controversy on if climate change is an issue that needs to be discussed and solved. There is a constant debate among scientist on if human actions are contributing the changing of earth’s climates. Climate change is defined as the change in average weather patterns for a specific region or Earth as a whole. This could include the change in an average temperature for a city or the amount a rainfall it receives (Dunbar, 2015). The main difference between weather and climate is the period of time specific patterns are recorded. Weather patterns are looked at over a much shorter period of time, meaning that these patterns are going to be more sporadic and change more frequently. Climate on the other had is recorded over a much longer period of time and usually show less drastic changes in patterns when compared to weather. Some people may argue that climate change is not an issue because Earth’s temperature is always changing do to natural effects. What people don’t realize is that human activity has effected the rate that earth’s temperature is changing, and just the smallest changes can lead to drastic consequences (Dunbar, 2015).

Through various scientific researches, it has been confirmed that human influence on the climate system is clear and recent anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases are the highest in history (Climate Change 2014 Synthesis Report Summary for Policymakers, 2014). The earth has become successively warmer over the last three decades since 1850. Both scientific and observed evidence have shown

Our planet is experiencing a level of climate changes previously unreached. Through the analysis of ice cores, tree rings, glacier lengths, pollen remains and ocean sediments (EPA, 2016), scientists have been able to piece together the Earth’s climate for roughly the last million years (some claim several millions of years). Through this research and the study of historic environmental events, it has been determined that the Earth’s climate changes from warmer to cooler over thousands of years due to natural reasons such as changes in solar energy, volcanic eruptions, and natural changes in the emission of greenhouse gases (EPA, 2016). However, in the last ~150 years or so, this trend has deviated severely due to human causes.

Attribution of recent climate change is the effort to scientifically ascertain mechanisms responsible for recent changes observed in the Earth 's climate, commonly known as 'global warming '. The effort has focused on changes observed 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:

It is established that the Earth is warming, climate change is caused by the steady rise of temperature in our atmosphere and oceans, this is also known as global warming. Energy from the sun that enters the Earths atmosphere is reflected back into space but some is absorbed by greenhouse gasses which radiates the energy to create heat.