To: Professor Pisano
From: Navdip Singh
Date: May 05, 2015
The Role of Individuals and Governments to understand the hazard of climate change Scientific evidence for warming of the climate system is unequivocal.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Climate change, as defined by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on climate
change (IPCC) “any change in climate over time, whether due to natural variability or as a result of human activity.” The global climate is extremely complex and has not yet to be fully understood by scientists. The vast majority of scholars around the world admit that development of any country can be measured by healthier people, progressive economy, and good foreign policies; they all are the signs of a developed country. All these significant words are subjected to one single term called stable climate condition. The science is fairly definite that climate conditions have been changing very rapidly due to rise in carbon pollution, greenhouse gas emission, and unlimited use of natural resources. One of the most significant challenges facing humankind and planet earth is to manage the environment in a sustainable manner. People start blame governments and corporations’ negligence which causes harm to the environment, but both individuals and governments are fully responsible for their actions in order to harm or protect the environment. It is utmost important that individuals and governments take this issue of climate change seriously and change their everyday business accordingly. In order to get down to the root cause of climate change, it is important to avoid blaming each other and find some specific solutions. While the sky is not likely to fall in short term, climate change should be
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recognized as an issue that has the potential to cause great harm to the earth, or more specifically to the humankind and our current forms of existence.
The alarm of climate change has
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