Climate Changes And Climate Change

The concept of climate change has been around for quite a while. The earliest mention of climate change dates back to the 19th century. Swedish scientist, Svante Archenius was the first scientist to study the effect of CO2 on climate. (Rodhe et al 1997)

There are many opinions for and against the idea of climate change. With all the different opinions, it can be hard to know what is true and what is just fake news. It’s no wonder people get so confused on the issue. Two main arguments that I will be addressing in this report is whether or not the Earth is warming and if in fact the earth is warming it does it affect plant or animal life.

From the observations presented in the paper it is clear that there is direct/indirect link between extreme events and climate change and the similar observation was found by Seneviratne et al., 2012) supporting that Climate change has resulted in changes in the occurrence of extreme events. Moreover, Out of 24 extreme events analyzed in this paper, 12 showed direct or indirect links to anthropogenic climate change and some could not be explained. Once a change has been detected it is important to attribute that change to some cause. Attribution, especially to human greenhouse gas emissions, gives confidence to model projections of the future driven by anthropogenic forcing as well as predictions of extremes at shorter time scales (Seneviratne and Zwiers, 2015). When an extreme event occurs, the question of attribution of these events to human-induced climate change is of particular interest. Two schools of thought have emerged in this rapidly developing field. “Oxford” quantifies the change in probability of an extreme event of a particular observed magnitude caused by the human alteration of the climate system whereas “Boulder” (NOAA 's Earth System Research Laboratory) examines the human induced change in magnitude of an extreme event. While providing different types of information to stakeholders, both these probabilistic and mechanistic schools of thought have been shown to be equivalent (Easterling et al 2016). But in some cases, some scientists have concluded that a

Recently, climate change has been a major topic of discussion. As the world decides what actions should be taken to help with the changing climate, severe weather has increased over the past few years. Several factors has created a change in climate but there have been countless effects to Earth because of climate change and severe weather is one of those effects. “In fact, the first decade of this century (2001–2010) was the hottest decade recorded since reliable records began in the late 1800s” (Union of Concerned Scientist, n.d.). The Earth is not only stronger storms such as Hurricane Ivan, Super Typhoon Haiyan, Joplin, MO tornado and tornado super outbreaks, but there also have been severe droughts as well. Climate change is effecting extreme weather because the climate has been changing over the years causing the waters and Earth to become warmer, which is causing extreme weather to become stronger and more severe.

In recent years, global warming is a topic that has received much attention. It’s is a gradual increase in the overall temperature of the earth's atmosphere generally attributed to the greenhouse effect caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide and other pollutants, which also known as the green house effect. Global warming can negatively affect the earth's delicate ecosystems. It has been linked to dangerous new weather patterns, the extinction of plant and animal species and so many others bad effects.

has rose about 6.7 inches in the past 100 years- this rate is almost double

Climate change is an urgent problem that requires international cooperation and commitment to solve. Throughout history various treaties have been agreed upon amongst countries, the Paris Agreement being the most recent one. In my essay, I will analyze the actions taken by Canada as one of the major greenhouse gas emissions after the Paris Agreement was adopted. The government of Canada is taking both a domestic and an international approach towards achieving its target of reducing its total greenhouse gas emissions by 17% before 2020, relative to its 2005 emission levels (Climate Change, 2017). The new government, a liberal party led by Justin Trudeau, has agreed and is looking forward to working with international partners towards leading the world in the direction of a low-carbon and climate resilient economy. In addition to that, Canada is willing to provide developing countries with the necessary funds of $2.65 billion to ensure an environmentally safe transition towards sustained emissions reductions, and further projects for the poorest and most vulnerable countries (Climate Leadership Plan, n.d.). Canada’s plan of action consists of making significant investments of $300 million to the Mission Innovation initiative for green infrastructure and clean technologies development (Baird, Pummer and Bodin, 2015: 747 - 758). In addition to that, Canada is determined to put the Paris Agreement into action through collaborative approach, working its way up from provinces to

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The global climate is predicted to change rapidly over the next century and many environmental changes will happen (Houghton et al., 2001). The increasing of atmospheric CO2 concentration is the main reason for climate change phenomenon (IPCC Climate Change, 2007). As a result for increased atmospheric CO2, global surface temperatures are predicted to increase between 1.8 and 3.6 1C by the year 2100 (IPCC Climate Change, 2007). The increased temperature, will lead to soil water content decrease in some areas (Le Houerou, 1996). Agriculture is one of the most important sector for the survival of human life is highly affected by climate change (Deryng et al., 2014). Lobell and Field (2007), demonstrated a decrease in maize yields 8.3 % per 1 C rise, which improve the harmful effects of temperatures increases. Also the rising temperatures increase the rate of phenological development, leading to a smaller plant and less productivity due to life cycle shortage. In fact abiotic and biotic stress is a serious condition causing major problem for crop productivity. About 20 % of cultivable and at least half of irrigated lands around the world are severely affected by environmental stresses. However, in these conditions, there are plant populations successfully adapted and evolutionarily different in their strategy of stress tolerance (Choudhary et al., 2016). One of the most vulnerable stages of plant development to temperature stress is the pollination phase because of pollen’s

The things that cause climate change are the effects of living in an industrialized time period. For example, carbon dioxide emissions which are now increasing because of the mass burning of fossil fuels make the Earth warmer. CO₂ is only an example of the many greenhouse gases that are being released more frequently, which contribute to the Earth getting warmer. Greenhouse gases are any gaseous compounds that are able to trap longwave radiation into the atmosphere, therefore, making the Earth warmer. The increase of the greenhouse gases lead up to what is known as the “Greenhouse Effect.” The “Greenhouse Effect” means that the sun gives off energy that heats our planet. This energy bounces off the Earth’s surface back into space. With the Earth’s natural greenhouse gases, organisms do not become too cold because the gases trap heat into the Earth. However, by increasing the number of greenhouse gases, the Earth gets

Climate change and global warming are terms often tossed around in common parlance by non-scientists in the western world as having a singular meaning: that the planet is warming up, that humans may (or may not) have caused it; that something must be done at once. Climate change is presented and discussed as a single phenomenon, disingenuous to its multifaceted nature. Complicated and sometimes seemingly random, climate change is both chaotic and complex, characterized by nonlinearity, feedback loops and emergent phenomena. Rind (1999) defines a complex system as one where there are “multiple interactions between many different components.” Earth’s climate is the same way: clouds, wind, precipitation, sunlight and geography—each affect climate, but each also affects the other, and so forth—interactions that form an intricate latticework of mutual dependency.

There is only a certain limit to which the world may forgive the atrocities of man that cover the sky in darkness and infection. Climate change is the result of the increasing temperature of the earth that can breed very harmful effects to wildlife habitats, weather patterns, and weather intensity. The increasing frequency of ice cap depletion is creating the factors that lead to greater, more frequent storms and flood damage. The melting of the ice caps also increases the severity of wildfires that threatens homes, habitats, and lives. The main cause of climate change is the burning of resources such as coal, oil, and gas that emits harmful pollutants into the air. However, some companies are hesitant to pursue any change to their process which slows any effort to lower pollution emission. Ultimately, companies should make an agreement with government officials to integrate green technology, such as biodegradable materials, hydroelectric power, wind power and solar power, into the energy sector, changing the conventional energy sources harmful to the environment.

Earth is one of the most intriguing planets in our galaxy and especially in our universe. This planet is able to bear and sustain life on its surface and also has one of the most important compounds in the universe H2O. Earth has an abundant amount of water on its surface; making it the primary reason why life can survive. However, we humans that live on this planet are destroying it bit by bit. As human population continue to rise, the demand for fossil fuels also increases. The continuous use of fossil fuels has resulted in global warming and also pollution. Hydrocarbons when burned release CO2 into the atmosphere; in turn too much CO2 in the atmosphere heats up the planet. Global warming is slowly changing the earth’s climate at an alarming rate. Earth’s global temperature has risen 0.6 degrees Celsius since the 1900’s (Ahrens, 388). This steady increase in temperature has drastic effects on the hydrological, ecological, political, and economical systems all around the world. The issue of climate change and global warming isn’t centered on one nation or group; it is centered on all the nations around the world. So it is important to every citizen living on this planet. The purpose of this paper is to examine the potential effects of climate change will have on the ocean, agriculture, eco-systems, increasing global population, and geopolitical systems.

For various reasons I believe that global warming and climate change issues are perhaps the greatest threats to our planet. Greenhouse gases are accumulating in Earth 's atmosphere as a result of human activities, causing surface air temperatures and subsurface ocean temperatures to rise. Some people may disagree thinking global warming is a natural cycle. However, a common misunderstanding of the climate change equilibrium is the earth doesn’t just warm up as a result of a natural phenomenon, the earth warms up because it is forced to. Also influential businesses and governments have been against the idea of global warming, afraid that tackling climate change is going to be too costly because energy security is already a growing concern for rich nations. Though action will be cheaper than inaction, which could result in economic, environmental and even health benefits. Finally, the most important reason is rapid global warming can affect an ecosystems chance to adapt naturally. Ocean biodiversity is already being affected, as are other parts of the ecosystem.

Climate change and global warming has been warned to no longer be viewed lightly. These changes are considered to be one of the biggest threats that being faced by nature and humanity today. According to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), climate change can be defined as the changes of climate which is attributed either directly or indirectly towards human activities which also able to change the composition of the global atmosphere. As an addition to this matter, the natural climate changes seemed to change over comparable period of time.