Parsa Khorramdin
Ms. Haedtler
AP Language and Composition Period 2
8 January 2015
Global Warming: An Immediate Crisis Climate change and global warming is a significant issue with severe climate, economical, and health consequences. Global warming will intensify our current weather extremes, dissolve our already depleting resources, lead to economic difficulties, lead to widespread diseases, and present future generations tremendous great difficulties. We should recognize climate change as an immediate crisis and respond to it by reducing our carbon emissions, focusing our efforts towards finding clean energy, and electing leaders that will address it as major concern. It is time for us to admit what we have done to the planet and take responsibility
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Global warming will not equally distribute its terrible effects upon the globe. Instead, certain areas will be hit harder and certain people will face harsher effects of climate change. Privileged individuals, who reside in the more fortunate parts of the world, such as North America, won’t be as significantly affected by global warming because they don’t heavily rely on the climate to sustain life but also because they won’t experience the same level of punishment from our mistreatment of the earth. Specifically, places like Africa and Southeast Asia will be impacted the hardest, although every region, including more fortunate ones, will encounter new challenges due to global warming. Global warming certainly spells difficult implications for everyone, but if we don’t respond properly by treating global warming as a serious issue and electing leaders that will address it as a primary concern, certain areas, such as Africa and Southeast Asia, will feel the full impact of our inability to …show more content…
Droughts, intense and devastating storms, and innovative idleness will cause water importation and infrastructure repair costs to increase and force future generations to attempt to repair our mistakes. NASA predicts that, “Net annual costs will increase over time as global temperatures increase”(Jackson, Randal, and Laura Tenenbaum 1). NASA scientists believe that global warming, which will lead to severe droughts and crop failures, will force nations to import water and lose a needed food source, resulting in high costs. As global warming exacerbates, more water will need to be transported and more people will have to pay for food, which will result in increased annual costs. The IPCC states, “Taken as a whole, the range of published evidence indicates that the net damage costs of climate change are likely to be significant and to increase over time”(Jackson, Randal, and Laura Tenenbaum 1). The source of the damage costs will be damaged infrastructure due extreme weather, storms, floods, and rising sea levels. Large storms and hurricanes like “Superstorm Sandy” and Hurricane Katrina will occur more often as climate change worsens, will cause severe damage to cities across the globe, and bring forth high repair costs for many nations. University of Oxford
I am writing you in hopes of expressing a few concerns. Like it or not, climate change is a real thing and is increasing at an unnatural rate because of humans and their release of greenhouse gases such as CO2, Methane, Nitrous Oxide, Tropospheric Ozone, Chlorofluorocarbons, and Hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs, HFC’s) .
Climate change. A buzz spreading around the world that has been known for decades but has recently bloomed into a rather controversial topic. With the topic being brought up in political debates, presidential speeches, as well as everyday conversations, there is one thing everyone can agree on: climate change is happening. Climatologists have proven with scientific evidence that the earth is rising in temperature and that this is a growing threat to our society. (AAAS) Although everyone agrees on this, there is still a disagreement on why climate change is happening and how can someone stop it? The two questions are really one in the same because once we get to the root of the issue we can prevent it from happening. Climate change remains a crucial problem in the U.S. and there are different approaches are being considered on how to solve this issue coming from our states, our president, and our congressman.
It is a reminder that the daily weather is hardly the strongest evidence of manmade global climate change - but that doesn't mean the threat isn't real. There is more carbon dioxide, a powerful greenhouse gas, in the atmosphere than at any time in human history and the average temperatures are rising and soon our world will be filled with catastrophe.
Global warming the reason why the world is getting destroyed the sun beams are beating down on the glaciers and they’re melting. Soon the world will be nothing but cities and countries under the water. The reason the world is in this global warming state is because people are burning trash and all the smog in the sky can suffocate the world. There is one thing that can change the world and that is if people start respecting the environment the world will not die from pollution. The world is becoming more populated and too many people are throwing stuff in the streets that’s why there used to be an earth day at elementary schools.
Global warming is a big issue a lot of people like to ignore. Why? Because people don’t want to focus on the future; unless it’s when the new iPhone is coming out. An amendment should be made that all 50 states should have some type of program to help slow global warming; because if we don’t do anything to prevent this catastrophe, there might not be a planet to live on. If America has an effective program in place, then we might be able to show the world why we should take care of our planet. But if we don’t care, then the world would get too hot because of excess greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere, the ice caps will continue melting leaving the polar animals nowhere to live, and there will be so much pollution in the air that it will be
For the past years, global warming and climate change became important issues of science and the environment. However, with the realization of the possible threats it poses to humankind in general, global warming gained international significance. Climate change is a global problem that requires a global response embracing the needs and interests of all countries (Boer, 2008). Countries around the world, convinced by the threats of the global warming, choose to act hand-in-hand to face to the issue.
Climate change; the two words that have sparked controversy across the media in recent decades, has been highlighted as one of the greatest environmental threat to humanity in the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). With the current warming of the climate considered as “unequivocal”, the report drew attention to the numerous consequences, future projections, and how the expected impacts could be potentially alleviated. This new report has brought back the issue of climate change and global warming to the forefront of public and political debate, asking the question: is climate change real and should we really care?
Global warming, along with all of its negative impacts, harms the populations living on the Earth. Whether it is direct harm to an individual or harm caused to something which then impacts an individual, the effects of global warming do not go unnoticed. Due to its level of impact, “[c]limate change is … the greatest threat facing humanity. It will lead to small island states disappearing from the face of the earth, serious global threats to our food and water supplies, and ultimately the death of hundreds of millions of the poorest people in the world over the course of this century” (Doebbler). The list of consequences associated with climate change is infinite. This list will only continue to grow if society does not make an effort to do anything about it. If people were to realize that they themselves are the ones posing a threat to humanity, the situation would be different. However, most humans fail to recognize that global warming even exists, let alone the environmental, social, and economic toll it takes on the world. Instead, society concerns itself with other conflicts which it views as more important, leaving no room to worry about climate change. Many controversial issues exist in today’s society. They all have their own degree of importance and numerous consequences associated with them, and most of these issues will in some way, shape, or form impact
Over the past few years, a very controversial topic that many scientists believe is a problem has been growing in discussion. The problem is climate change and global warming. Many people believe that climate change is only affecting the ice caps and polar bears; those people could not be more wrong. Climate change is affecting everyone. Climate change and global warming are not the same thing, but are closely related. This is a problem that most everyone in the world is in some way contributing to climate change; a solution must be found sooner rather than later. Climate change will ruin the earth one day if not stopped.
Climate change. It has been on all of our minds as more and more controversy and panic are induced by new data being collected all the time. The very thought of it as the truth begins to fade into the foreground is enough to make many people sick. As this problem begins to take political forefronts, the question is, what are we going to do about it? Fortunately, public opinion and political concern as it has in the past and still does, has motivated individuals and even entire nations to take action against the upcoming threat. However, not all individuals are open to the truth of the existence and significance of climate change.
Hurricane Katrina, hit our shores in 2005. As Al Gore, former Vice President and long time Environmentalist, points out in his book An Inconvenient Truth, “Hurricane Katrina caused approximately $60 billion in insured losses” (Gore 102). A further impact on the world economy would concentrate in the UK who will be heavily affected by the melting of glaciers, whose “annual flood losses alone could increase from 0.1% of GDP today to 0.2-0.4% of GDP once the increase in global average temperatures reaches 3 or 4 degrees Celsius” (Stern viii).
Many pieces of evidence support the claim that global warming is a significant issue today. The first key piece of evidence I will discuss is the release of carbon into Earth’s atmosphere. Since the introduction of fossil fuels, which are the main source of energy on Earth, the average temperature has increased slowly over the last 200 years, eventually amassing to a crucial level (“Global Warming”). The second piece of evidence is the rapid speed of the melting of the polar ice caps. Multiple satellite images have proven that the coasts of Antarctica are receding at a much faster pace than in recent history (Conway). This retreat can cause many dire situations for our future generations to come, including sea level to
Global Warming is a major world problem that we have but people don’t seem to realize that and it may end all life on earth as we know it. We are causing many problems to the earth that we don’t realize what we are doing we may think everything is ok but it’s not. Global warming is all our fault and we need to stop!
Richard Hilderman, who has a P.H.D in microbiology, said “The 20th Century has been warmer than any other time period in the last 400 years” (60+). Climate change has been brought upon by the burning of fossil fuels, which releases greenhouse gases (Hilderman 60+). The greenhouse gases then make a “blanket” surrounding the earth, which traps heat, making the world warmer (Hilderman 60+). Even though there are some overstated facts regarding climate change, policies to stop it would have a positive effect on the job and economic market, and climate change is the most pressing issue of today that needs more attention and worldwide policies to combat it.
Climate change is the single biggest environmental and humanitarian crisis of our time. Our Earth’s temperature is climbing at an alarming rate. Earth 's average temperature has risen by 1.4°F over the past century, and is projected to rise another 2 to 11.5°F over the next hundred years. The planet is seeing the devastating effects of a warmer earth; warmer oceans, melting ice caps, and rising sea levels. As these and other changes become more pronounced in the coming decades, they will likely present challenges to our society and our environment.