Climate Change
Climate change is defined as the significant fluctuations in weather patterns. These fluctuations could be caused by harmful human activities or even the natural processes occurring on Earth. It is also a broader term to describe global warming and all the changes that occur on a certain location’s climate. Some signs of climate change include higher temperature, frequent occurrences of droughts, warmer temperature of the oceans, rising sea levels and melting glaciers.
It greatly affects the environment, and consequently, humans. Nowadays, climate change is one of the top reasons for the loss of the lives of many. Due to climate change, hurricanes and typhoons frequently occur, causing multiple deaths and even damaging the human properties. Hurricanes and typhoons also affect the crops, from which some depends for their income, and for everyone’s survival. Droughts also bring similar effects as hurricanes and typhoons. Other calamities may also occur, which will also mainly result to deaths.
Today, climate change is usually referred as man-made. Causes of climate change greatly include humans. Yes, it is a natural process, but this natural process progresses more rapidly due to the harmful and irresponsible actions and activities done by humans. An example of these said harmful and irresponsible human actions and activities is the burning of a large amount of coal and oil to provide and sustain electricity to their houses and factories. Another is the burning of fossil fuels. Aside from knowing that fossil fuel is a non-renewable resource, burning of these will produce carbon dioxide, which is one of the so called ‘greenhouse gases’. These formation of greenhouse gases increase the state of global warming.
Climate change is obviously felt and observed especially today, though many of us, humans, ignore it. This issue of climate change should not be ignored; instead, it should be solved. But even after so many years of study, still, no
It greatly affects the environment, and consequently, humans. Nowadays, climate change is one of the top reasons for the loss of the lives of many. Due to climate change, hurricanes and typhoons frequently occur, causing multiple deaths and even damaging the human properties. Hurricanes and typhoons also affect the crops, from which some depends for their income, and for everyone’s survival. Droughts also bring similar effects as hurricanes and typhoons. Other calamities may also occur, which will also mainly result to deaths.
Today, climate change is usually referred as man-made. Causes of climate change greatly include humans. Yes, it is a natural process, but this natural process progresses more rapidly due to the harmful and irresponsible actions and activities done by humans. An example of these said harmful and irresponsible human actions and activities is the burning of a large amount of coal and oil to provide and sustain electricity to their houses and factories. Another is the burning of fossil fuels. Aside from knowing that fossil fuel is a non-renewable resource, burning of these will produce carbon dioxide, which is one of the so called ‘greenhouse gases’. These formation of greenhouse gases increase the state of global warming.
Climate change is obviously felt and observed especially today, though many of us, humans, ignore it. This issue of climate change should not be ignored; instead, it should be solved. But even after so many years of study, still, no
References: [1] http://www.un.org/en/globalissues/climatechange/ [2]http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/filipino-government-makes-climate-change-a-top-2013-priority [3] http://climate.gov.ph/ [4] https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-of-energy-climate-change [5] http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science/topics/globalwarming/index.html [6] http://climatechange.worldbank.org/