Argumentative Essay On Climate Change

Political leaders around the world recognizes climate change is an issue to be dealt with, but some believe climate change is a hoax: there has been controversy over whether nations should invest resources to solve the issue or not. The controversy has led 175 countries to sign an agreement, known as the Paris Agreement, which states each country will have goals to help reduce carbon emissions and global temperatures.

What is the Paris Agreement?

The Paris Agreement (Accord de Paris) is an agreement with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that helps unify nations in the agreement in an effort to reduce each nation's carbon emissions and to keep global temperatures below 2 degrees Celsius. In addition, there is an emphasis of countries working together to bring change: according to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, developing countries will receive help from developed countries with support of finance, recovery of loss and damages, and adaptation. In terms of finance, developing countries will receive funding to build projects and advance adaptive technologies to bring a "climate–resilient futures" (bigpicture.unfccc.int). The agreement states parties shall help countries that has received damage from the effects of global warming. In addition, parties are expected to have a plan to help adapt to the climate change, be willing to cooperate with other parties, and be transparent with their plans. Further with the

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There have been some debates recently within the political and scientific communities of global warming: if it's real, what's causing it, and what we can do to stop it. There are many natural factors such as water vapour or variations in the sun's energy that could be causing global warming; but, there is also evidence that is man made by rising carbon dioxide emissions. In the previously mentioned debates, scientists are going back and forth on whether or not man made carbon dioxide emissions lead to global warming. Some say natural causes alone cannot explain climate change, after the Industrial Revolution in the 1800s, but rather that human activities are likely a major factor. However, others say that the only reasonclimate change is chalked up to being man made is simply because scientists have not done the proper research required to find evidence...show more content...

Basically, more CO2 means a warmer climate. So, why might humans be to blame for rising CO2 levels? It all started with the Industrial Revolution. At the start of it, there were 280 parts per million of CO2 in the atmosphere. In 2014, there were 400 ppm, the highest it had been for a million years; however, another source said atmospheric CO2 levels are higher than they have been for 15–20 million years, and that a change of ppm that should take 5,000–20,000 years has occurred in 120. These increases are due to fossil fuel burning, a human activity that produces carbon emissions. This is one of the reasons as to the statement made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that it is extremely likely that human activity causes global warming, an over 95%

Global warming, we see it as sad polar bears hopelessly swimming for their lives in the ocean. It's shown as rising sea levels that can washout entire cities. It even sometimes gets turned into politics but scientifically, what is the definition of global warming? It is the heating up the of Earth, caused by infrared radiation that gets stuck in our atmosphere because of the increase of CO2 put into the atmosphere. Infrared radiation is electromagnetic radiation that cannot be seen by the human eye, but we feel it as heat. Seems pretty logical doesn't it? To some it doesn't seem as reasonable. Some believe global warming isn't a man made problem, but just a cycle of 'weather patterns'. For example, our now president

–Donald J. Trump– doesn't consider climate change to a threat to the inhabitants of earth. Our president also said that global warming is a 'hoax'.

"Snowing in Texas and Louisiana, record setting freezing temperatures throughout the country and beyond. Global warming is an expensive hoax!"

–Donald J. Trump

This is what many people believe, and this tweet too seems pretty logical to a majority of people. But in 2014 January 29th when Donald J. Trump posted this tweet, there was record setting freezing temperatures happening nation and worldwide. But also 2014 was one of the top three hottest years on record. Now that doesn't seem like a 'hoax'.

Humans don't like being wrong. It's embarrassing, uncomfortable to believe something and then be confronted about it. So that's why there's still high percentage of people who don't believe in the change in climate. People who work with oil companies don't want to acknowledge it because it can ruin their business. Politicians ignore the problem because it costs money to fix our past mistakes. That fear, people being scared, it makes us shut down. But we can try ignoring the problem, but the thing about problems is, they can be ignored but they never truly disappear. Weather may feel the same as every other year, but The whole world is heating up, including our vast oceans. Tropical hurricanes need to have surface water temperatures to be 26В°C or more for them to form. As our oceans get hotter hurricanes are able to form farther out in the sea

Is climate change naturally or man–made?

First of all, for anyone that does not know what climate change is, it is a change in the world's climate. A lot of people think weather and climate is the same thing but it is not. The difference between weather and climate is a measure of time. Weather is what conditions of the atmosphere are over a short period of time. Climate is what the conditions are over relatively long periods of time. My belief of the issue is that climate change is man–made.

I think everyone has heard of global warming or an ice age, but does anyone really consider it to be a serious factor in the world? We only have one earth and once we destroy it, it is over. We have to do something about it because it...show more content...

The effects of climate change depend upon how much change there is, how fast it occurs, and how easily the world can adapt to the new conditions. If the change is to rapid then that will leave some species of animals or plants to be extinct because they don't have enough time to move or adapt. Other examples such as "Coral reefs: slightly warmer tropical water may kill the algae which reef animals use for food".(Homeworktips) Increase in temperature in the climate is making a lot of the ice cap and icebergs melt in the north. Which is making the ocean rise more. "Mangrove swamps: Mangrove swamps are important breeding grounds for many animals that live in water. Increased ocean flooding may damage these areas by changing the supply of nutrients and the amount of salt."(Homeworktips)

What can we do about the climate change to prevent or reduce the effects? "Three basic strategies are available, abatement, adaptation, and geo–engineering."(Homeworktips) Abatement is where we slow or stop the affect by making things more energy efficient. Burning less coal, oil and natural gases. Adaptation is where we adapt or change to our surroundings. Protecting the coast by putting up barriers or dykes. Geo–engineering is where we engineer or change the earth. For example, reducing the amount of sunlight that hits the earth by putting small particles in the high atmosphere to reflect more sunlight back into the earth.

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