Global Warming

Global Warming
“The Earth 's climate has changed throughout history. Just in the last 650,000 years there have been seven cycles of glacial advance and retreat, with the abrupt end of the last ice age about 7,000 years ago marking the beginning of the modern climate era — and of human civilization. Most of these climate changes are attributed to very small variations in Earth’s orbit that change the amount of solar energy our planet receives.” (NASA.GOV) Going through the history in our planet’s timeline, global warming seems to be an issue that is rising as time moves forward. People are more focused on materialistic things and are less worried with the planet. Not thinking about the future but only about what we are living in the present, we as human beings are considered selfish. Unfortunately, the imbalance that we are creating between our lives and earth is already showing the catastrophic signs in the form of cyclones, flood, tsunami, etc. If the imbalance continues to increase, one day the conditions will put a question mark on the existence of this planet. Several current trends clearly show that global warming is directly impacting the sea levels, the melting of ice caps and significant worldwide climate changes. “When it comes to connecting the dots between climate change, extreme weather and health, the lines are clear.” (NRDC.ORG) In short, global warming represents a fundamental threat to all living things on earth. We need to start to think not only about ourselves and take action instead of pretending that nothing different is happening in the world that we are living in.
Just to understand a little more about what is happening, “Global warming is primarily a problem of too much carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere—which acts as a blanket, trapping heat and warming the planet. As we burn fossil fuels like coal, oil and natural gas for energy or cut down and burn. A forest to create pastures and plantations, carbon accumulates and overloads our atmosphere. Certain waste management and agricultural practices aggravate the problem by releasing other potent global warming gases, such as methane and nitrous oxide.” (Climatehotmap.org) Although Carbon dioxide can be good to keep the environment stabilized; it can also be very harmful in excess. Turning the earth a big ball on fire and making people’s living difficult. Because of these negative actions, Al Gore, Bill Clinton 's vice president has created a film in order to spread awareness throughout the United States. He explains various topics and uses analysis about past history, expressing all the issues the world has been through about climate changing. He also shows graphic explaining how bad the global warm is, and if we do not change our actions and the way that we think it will turn in a way with no reverse. Even though a lot of researches has been done about the global warming and almost of them says that global warming is man-made. In Anthony Lupo 's article he states different, “Climate change is generally a regional phenomenon and not a global one. Regionally, climate has been shown to change rapidly in the past and will continue to do so in the future. Life on earth will adapt as it has always done. Life on earth has been shown to thrive when planetary temperatures are warmer as opposed to colder”. I somewhat agree with certain points of his article. We all know that the earth keeps changing, it is a natural thing that has been happening since thousands of years ago, and it is a fact of life. It is not 100% our fault, we are only partially responsible, however our action make the global warming get worse day by day. If we change our actions we can minimize the chaos that is happening which kills hundreds of people every time that something extraordinary happens. Patrick Moore, a member of Greenpeace said in his debate on February 27th, 2014 that “Humans are not to blame for global warming” and also that “Even if the earth does warm up, Moore claims that it will be to the advantage of humans and other forms of life, as 'human are a tropical species '”. I strongly believe that the true cause of global warming is because of our attitude towards nature and the way we live our lives, followed by all the corporations that make the air even more difficult to breathe.
It is only up to us to induce fundamental changes in our attitude and behavior towards nature. We must start changing ourselves and the way that we live our lives. Passing it by generations, we will make the earth a better place to live. Independent of what other do or do not do, everyone has to make a personal decision. The governments and the politicians are only a small percentage of earth 's population. Regards of their attitude about global warming and their technical measures to minimize the global warming, we should change also our attitude to life in general. Creating at least a better place to ourselves and the ones that wants to live in a better place. We spend to much time thinking about making money to afford everything that we want, and by the end we forget that if we keep living like this, we are going to have no chance to enjoy life. We as human beings believe that we have the ability of controlling everything. With all the advanced technology and all the technical solutions, we believe that we can fix what cannot be fixed. Nature is not in our control, and if we take too long to realize that, maybe it will be too late. Sometimes life gives you a second chance, but not always. I truly believe that is time to change, and no matter what anyone says about global warming, if we do not change, it will get even worse. We are no longer in the natural cycle, what was supposed to be natural is already taking a different way, it is all a result of the action that we have done against nature. There is a quote that I really like from Stephen Hawking “Our population and our use of the Finite resources of Planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill.” Unfortunately, we are still too blind to see what we have done and what we are continuing to do. It is only a matter of time until we realize what our actions will mean for our future.

Works Cited
"Extreme Weather: Impacts of Climate Change." Extreme Weather, Climate Change. Natural Resources Defense Council, 15 Jan. 2014. Web. 23 Nov. 2014. <http://www.nrdc.org/globalwarming/climate-change-impacts/>.
"Home." Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet. Randal Jackson, n.d. Web. 23 Nov. 2014. <http://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/>.
Lupo, Anthony. "Global Warming Is Natural, Not Man-Made." Global Warming Is Natural, Not Man-Made (n.d.): n. pag. Napsnet.com. Anthony Lupo. Web. <http://www.napsnet.com/pdf_archive/34/50144.pdf>.
"The Causes of Global Warming." The Causes of Global Warming. Union of Concerned Scientists, 2011. Web. 24 Nov. 2014. <http://www.climatehotmap.org/about/global-warming-causes.html>.

Cited: "Extreme Weather: Impacts of Climate Change." Extreme Weather, Climate Change. Natural Resources Defense Council, 15 Jan. 2014. Web. 23 Nov. 2014. <http://www.nrdc.org/globalwarming/climate-change-impacts/>. "Home." Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet. Randal Jackson, n.d. Web. 23 Nov. 2014. <http://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/>. Lupo, Anthony. "Global Warming Is Natural, Not Man-Made." Global Warming Is Natural, Not Man-Made (n.d.): n. pag. Napsnet.com. Anthony Lupo. Web. <http://www.napsnet.com/pdf_archive/34/50144.pdf>. "The Causes of Global Warming." The Causes of Global Warming. Union of Concerned Scientists, 2011. Web. 24 Nov. 2014. <http://www.climatehotmap.org/about/global-warming-causes.html>.