Argumentative Essay On Climate Change

Climate change can be traced down to since the mid–1800s, when the industrial revolution first started taking place all around the world. Lives of human and animal species have been negatively affected since then, with events such as natural disasters, the melting of ice in polar regions, and change in weather and living conditions. Climate change in polar regions, in particular, has faced the most damage compared to any other region because of its location in regard to the sun. Climate change holds many different views and opinions about the effects, and even the existence itself, but evidence is clear and unmistakable in global ramifications and local impact in polar regions.

"...Climate change [is] the 'greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people'", skeptics like Senator Inhofe of Oklahoma like to say. Climate change is change in climate patterns due to an increase in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases produced by certain human activity. According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, data taken by satellite has shown that the Arctic cover has decreased by 30% over the past 30 years, and this change, which also include change in sea ice and permafrost, in artic weather and climate is caused by humans. Although numerous scientists have confirmed the legitimacy of climate change, there are different views on whether climate change is real or not. Government officials like Senator Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma or Senator Marco Rubio of Florida have explicitly stated that they do not believe climate change is neither real, nor caused by humans (Tom McCarthy, 2014). On the other hand, mainstream media and other media outlets, such as The Independent and The Economist, have reported their findings of climate change and its legitimacy. The Independent (Conner, S. 2011) reported that records of these changes were taken by military submarines, land measurements, and satellite data to prove ice in polar regions are melting faster and faster. Satellites have tracked sea ice since the 1970s and by nuclear submarines since the Cold War, according to Peter Wadhams of Cambridge University and it was predicted that by September 2015, there would be no more sea ice. (Conner, S. 2011). Luckily, sea ice has not

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15 July 2015

Man vs. Nature

Is Global Climate Man–made? One of the largest global conflicts of modern day society is the issue of global climate change. Throughout the years, the most notable modern research has been the recognition that humans activities are most likely accelerating the process of global climate change. Scientists have provided solid evidence of global climate change by humans in multiple studies, but others believe that climate change is caused solely by nature and the naturalness of the Earth's cycle. Whether such evidences are providing valid proof to our society has become a serious matter for public debate. According to National Aeronautics and Space Administration, also known as NASA, over 97% of climate scientists agree that global warming is mostly likely caused by human activities. In our society today, there is a lot of misconception of the definition of weather and climate. As these two terms are often associated with each other, they are not the same. Mark Twain famously summed up the definition: "Climate is what you expect; weather is what you get". Climate is the behavior of the environment throughout a long period of time, usually a decade, whereas weather refers to the actual temperature of the atmosphere at a particular period of time. "Climate change", however, is "any systematic change in the long–term statistics of climate elements (such as temperature, pressure, or winds) sustained over several

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Global Warming The Earth is changing on a constant basis, how much of that is caused by man–made pollutants and what are the effects we may feel if nothing is done to curve carbon dioxide emissions on a global scale? remains to be seen. Global warming is the increase of overall temperature of the earth's atmosphere which has been generally attributed to a massive increase in levels of carbon dioxide and other pollutants contributed to the greenhouse effect. The increase in man–made pollutants has been largely linked to the start of the Industrial Revolution in the United States. This created a spark in growing the economy while negatively affecting the environment over time. Climate change is described as the change in regional or global weather patterns largely attributed to the increase in carbon dioxide. Both terms generally point to the same data that has increasingly been collected with new technology to showcase how much the world is changing and how much of that is not part of the earth's normal climate cycle. One of the earliest data in atmospheric CO2 measurement shows the Earth having a concentration of 280ppmv in pre–industrial times to 370ppmv in 2000, an increase of 30%. (Maslin, Mark "Global Warming: A very short introduction") This illustrates how much of an impact the industrial revolution caused in the increase of the concentration of greenhouse gases compared to the natural concentration maintained by the earth naturally. One part of the debate with

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Climate change is the global issue of a rising temperature due to human activity. As a result of the rising temperature the polar icebergs are melting. This is putting more water into the ocean and causing sea levels to rise. Because of the higher sea levels many coastal communities are flooding. With Massachusetts being a coastal state this could majorly affect us. Given with the current trends of one eighth of an inch per year (NOAA), a good portion of Massachusetts could be flooded soon. But how soon? And how will it progress over time? This is what we hope to find out with our project. (Kique

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Paragraph 1: According to Merriam Webster dictionary,climate change is the changes in earth's weather patterns. Climate change, however, has come to be known as the warming of the earth's climate due to Co2. Climate change is rather controversial with the question that is the recent spike in temperature and Co2 related, and is this spike caused by humans? Many studies have been done by a multitude of organizations. The majority of these studies all point to one thing. According to skeptical science, "With 60–70 meters of global sea level locked up... Many now seem to converge on 1–2 meters of sea level rise by 2100 (2017)" Also, according to NASA, the global Co2 in the atmosphere is rising at about 2 parts per million per year (NASA 2017). The sea level is rising at the same time that Co2 levels and global temperature is rising. This has all started around when humans

Climate Change

Global Warming, much of what does or does not happen forty years from now rests on our actions or inactions taken between now and then. The crucial question is whether we should pour all our resources into mitigation – reducing our carbon emissions. According to scientists who study the climate there are other environmental problems; "we now face a global crises in land use and agriculture that could undermine the health, security, and sustainability of our civilization". Rather than worry too much about emissions, we should accept the world is going to get warmer anyway and adapt to global warming by building better flood defenses and developing drought resistant crops.

We cannot dispute that automobiles, factories, and power plants, displace an unprecedented twenty tons of carbon monoxide– per person – per year. There needs to be a reduction in emissions, yet we cannot focus on this aspect of global warming alone. There are many indicators that climatic change is influencing the frequency and intensity of natural catastrophes. If scientific global climate models are accurate, the present problems will be magnified in the near future.

Already scientists have observed that more than 75% of the recent economic losses are caused by natural hazards which can be attributed to wind storms, floods, droughts and other climate related hazards. In the year 2008, the U.S. state of Iowa was on the front pages of newspapers all around the world.

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