In his essays “Kids, Trees, and Climate Change” and “The Green Dream” Mark Hertsgaard informs us of a current would issue that is occurring that was created by humans, global warming. Americans should take global warming as a serious matter because it could extinct some plants or animals due to the climate warming up which is not suitable for some species. Also it creates ice caps to melt at rapid speeds which could lead to parts of the states that live on a border of the ocean to flood. Mark describes the issue and advises what needs to be done by first grabbing our attention. In “The Green Dream” he stated that each year, the United States government purchase 56,000 new vehicles from Detroit for official use.…
Global Warming is unleashing health problems through the world. These affects are expected to worsen if great changes aren’t taking place. More people are dying now from all the heat being released. Natural disasters are beginning to become a problem worldwide. Without a severe change more heat waves, rain storms, tropical cyclones, and surges in sea level will occur frequently.…
Some issues that are known to cause ongoing problems are air quality, climate change, habitat and wildlife, pollution and waste, water, and weather.…
Climate Change Issues: Climate change is a major environmental concern because of the fact that even small changes can cause significant problems for large portions of the world. Climate changes are resulting in an increase in the number of worldwide natural disasters like floods and hurricanes.CO7…
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Throughout the past few decades the public has been made aware of the many threatening environmental changes happening to the world. This domino effect has proven to be the world’s most wicked problem because of how quickly things tend to escalate. Climate change alone has proven to have the most relationships with other environmental issues happening across the world and that is due to the interdependence of each and every issue. The first step in actually solving this issue is to not only to acknowledge these relationships, but to figure out a solution that can be applied globally.…
One of the biggest concerns on an international scale is the rising sea levels, due to rising temperatures in the Antarctic and Greenland is causing rapid melting of ice caps and glaciers, this increase in water is causing a massive rise in sea levels, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has predicted an average rise in global sea level of 1.2m by the end of the century, that would be caused by the annual loss of 273thousand million tonnes of ice. If the entire sheet was to melt then the rise in sea level would be about 7m globally. This would lead to mass land loss of many countries incl. The UK, Bangladesh and Holland. The loss of land would have a massive impact on the agricultural sector with many acres of farm land lost to flooding and salinisation of the soil causing the land to be useless. Another international consequence is the relocation of millions of people worldwide, as many people live on flood plains.…
Climate Change is not a new issue. There have been attempts all throughout the latter half of the 20th century to curb the effects of climate change, and some of them have even been somewhat successful. Extremely accurate measurements regarding the amount of CO2 present in the atmosphere have been taken since 1958 at the Mauna Loa Observatory, and the upward trend of the data gave us notice half a century ago about the changing of the climate. With this notice, several efforts have been made in the past, such as the Kyoto treaty to curb the emissions of these globe warming molecules. With new developments, such as massive superstorms and 100 year storms happening every 5 years, this issue has come to the public eye, and it has fallen upon the…
Global warming is currently the most controversial issue.The debate over global warming has been going all around the world and it seems endless. Depending on one's political view, whether a person is a liberal or a conservative may consider global warming as the biggest challenge facing humanity or one may dismiss, saying it is not real or may simply claims global warming is a hoax. However, there are strong, credible evidences that indicate the extreme and unpredictable weather pattern we have been witnessing like extreme heat, drought, storm , retreating glaciers and the melting of the arctic sea ice, and rising sea level due to climate change caused by human activities. Governments and people around the world should hold hand in hand…
This is a pressing issue because our Earth is constantly warming and many catastrophic events could occur if global temperatures rise. For example, sea levels could rise and glaciers could melt, destroying the habitats of many organisms including us humans. I strongly believe that climate change is caused by humans and that we need to change our…
For the past decade now there has been a long ongoing controversy, this controversy being this issue of global climate change. It has been a subject many people have been aware of yet few have actually talked about with the general public, as a result is has become one of the most undermined, yet widely discussed issues being held today amongst primarily scientists. Although scientist heavily debate on the subject, making suggestions on what needs to be done and pointing out the causes for climate change; we as a group need to take action in finding out what is happening to the Earth. It is only educating the general public is the only way we can come closer to reversing the damaged caused by global warming and climate…
Every countries have problems that need to be dealt with. Some of problems are: eating disorders, rising divorce rate, or homelessness. The most significant problems that I am concerned about is homelessness. Homelessness has already had negative effects on our lives, including social problems, criminal activity and children.…
Global warming poses three main problems. These are melting polar ice caps, rising sea levels, and shifting global precipitation patterns. These three things pose major threats to the environment and if not controlled could cause threats to humans as a whole. Air pollution also has the potential to damage vegetation and water supply, through acid deposition, in a certain area. Acid deposition is tiny droplets of sulfuric acid and nitric acid as a result of the burning of fossil fuels.…
In recent years, a shroud of uncertainty has fallen over the concept of climate change and human involvement in it. Rather than being taken as fact, some have elected to dispute its validity or dismiss its significance. Climate change is the most important issue today, and is evidenced by undisputable scientific research.…
I would have to disagree that global warming is simply a political issue. It originated in politics with Al Gore because he is a political figure, but it has always been more of a general human issue, as we are the cause of it, and we are the only ones who can take action against global warming. I don’t see politics as the ideal method of relaying the message of global warming to the public. In contrast, I believe that even something more political such as the war on terror is not as important as global warming, and therefore it doesn’t need the type of expose as global warming does. Terrorism seems much more urgent and threatening upfront, but if humanity were to be wiped out by the effects of global warming, there will be no one left to terrorize. In addition to that, there are many myths and misconceptions out there about global warming which are only harming the effort to educate the masses. In order for people to realize what they need to do and find out what they can do to contribute to the cause, we need to eliminate any misconception or confusion, and educate the citizens of the world on climate…