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    Climate change has been a debatable and concerning topic involving human activities and their long term effects on climate condition across the globe. Climate change are primarily caused by many factors, ra natural or artificial. Natural activities such as volcanic eruption, solar radiations and plate tectonic movements are various influential factors climate change. While these natural events aren’t controllable by humans, it’s also proven that recent human activities have also contributed to climate

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    As the impact of the climate change on human lives has become more and more significant, the climate change issue has been included in the SDGs as Goal 13. Measuring the targets in SDGs’ each goal is important to guarantee its effectiveness. The target 13.1 can be measured by comparing the data of the increasing rate of resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters between applicable countries. However, an agreement in the global scale system is required to get

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    Climate change, a global scale challenge that is most important due to its present and long-term dangers, deserves not only much discussion, but attention as well. In particular, one former president who wanted to fight this challenge head on was Al Gore. When speaking to this challenge, former President Al Gore stated, “It is wrong to use the sky as an open sewer, it is wrong to condemn future generations to a lifetime haunted by continual declines in their standard of living, and give them a world

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    It is possible to conclude that Climate Change has rapidly picked up in the last few decades due to fossil fuel emissions caused by humans, creating a warming of the earth that is melting the glaciers causing sea levels to rise each year. The sea levels rising have already shown some low level communities living by the ocean just a preview of what can later be seen in many years to come. With the glaciers melting away, humans all around the world are losing an astronomical percentage of fresh water

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    1954-1983.” Climate change is defined as “a change in global or regional climate patterns, 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.” Climate change has happened as a cycle throughout history, with ice ages occurring, and then warming. The earth naturally warms and cools, but due to the burning of fossil fuels the rate is growing exponentially. The climate changing

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    Climate Change Denial Its midnight in the North Pole, its summer and the sun hasn’t set in months; a polar bear is out hunting with her young cub. There has been less and less territory for her to claim as her own as of late, and even less food. She must find food for her cub. Having not eaten in days he has become malnourished and frail. She returns the dark, frigid water trying to find anything worth eating. Nothing. She climbs back onto the ice float where she left her cub. He is no longer moving

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    Environmental Science is Donald Trumps opinion about climate change. Ever since Donald Trump became president, there has been a denial from him about this issue because he thinks it’s a hoax. More specifically he tweeted on November 6th 2012 saying “The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive” and he also doesn’t believe climate change even exists. I agree that global warming and climate change do both exist and they also impact our environment

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    According to Johnson (2010), the issue of climate change has been hotly debated from two main viewpoints: that global warming has resulted from human activity on the one hand; and that it is a myth resulting from flawed research and unverified scientific findings. Those who hold the former view accuse those of the latter persuasion that they are concerned more with perpetuating the fossil fuel industry than creating a safe environment for future human generations. The other side, in turn, are of

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    A big question is climate change a hazard to future generations? Climate change is and always will be a hazard to future generations and not just for human beings, but for all kinds of species. The comprehension to accept it, is a hazard that species that cannot adapt to the change in climate are more likely become extinct. Luckily, human beings are masters of adaptability. Because our own evolution is a reason for climate change and our capability to adapt. After all, the hazards are always there

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    Climate change is happening and it is happening quite rapidly all around the world. The earth is undoubtedly warming and over the past one hundred years, Earth’s average temperature has increased by about 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit. (EPA 1) The big problem with the average temperature rising is that it can have a negative effect on the planet and potentially have dramatic shifts in the global climate. According to the EPA, the United States Environmental Protection Agency, “Many places have seen changes

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