Climate Change is Boring By Derek Muller (August 29‚ 2014) Climate change is boring. Don’t get me wrong‚ it’s incredibly important‚ it’s just that the story of climate change is not especially compelling. When I started making this article‚ I thought that everyone knew the story‚ but apparently I was wrong. Most say that the hole in the ozone layer is the one to blame on why we’re experiencing climate change. To recap‚ we’re burning fossil fuels‚ releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere which
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Ori Malul Climate Change Climate change means any significant‚ long-term change in the expected patterns of average weather of a specific region‚ or even the whole world over a significant period of time. It describes changes in the state of the atmosphere over time‚ scales ranging from decades to millions of years. Data shows that earth’s average air temperature has changed by about 1.4 degrees fahrenheit (Citation). Climate change is about abnormal variations into the climate‚ and the effects
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The backfire effect is a psychological term used to describe someone who tries to persuade and change another person’s view with facts about a topic that both disagree on. Furthermore‚ the persuasion that’s used with evidence doesn’t work because instead of developing a total agreement on the dispute‚ the person disagreeing will grow stronger with his view. The backfire effect correlates with the fallacy of confirmation bias because both have the same interpretation of how a person stands firm with
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Introduction Climate is a term used to summarise the long term atmospheric elements that cause the short term weather patterns received in a place (“Climate” Britannica 2015). Climate change is the alterations the climate goes through due to a number of factors. These factors can be described as natural or anthropogenic (“Climate Change” Britannica 2015). Natural drivers of climate change are as a result of natural processes such as changes in the solar activity‚ volcanic activity or the Earth’s
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aerosols into the upper troposphere and stratosphere (Allen‚ 2015). Volcanism helped form Earth’s ancient climate and influences climate change in today’s world (Kasting‚ 1993). A recent example of a volcano influencing climate include the 1982 El Chichon eruption in Mexico‚ which is regarded as the largest volcanic disaster in modern Mexican history (Mass‚ 1989). Ancient examples of climate-changing eruptions include the Huaynaputina volcano in Peru in 1600 C.E. (Costa‚ et al. 2003) and a volcano
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but there is a lot of evidence to show that the change in climate is global and is seriously dangerous. Because climate change has been‚ and is still is being; extensively researched. As the climate gets warmer‚ the more extreme the weather will be and 97.4% agree that human activity is a significant factor in changing global temperatures. I am exploring the reviews and research of many people who have thought towards global climate change. What they feel is affecting it: Humans‚ natural
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Climate Change Will Hit Genetic Diversity By Virginia Gewin of Nature magazine Climate change represents a threat not only to the existence of individual species‚ but also to the genetic diversity hidden within them‚ researchers say. The finding promises to complicate assessments of how climate change will affect biodiversity‚ as well as conservationists’ task in preserving it. DNA studies have revealed that traditional species‚ as defined by taxonomists
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and even Obama are talking about this. News reporters are making claims and millions are denying or agreeing. People of higher power are calling on activists‚ and new laws are being made every day supporting this. Everywhere you go it’s all about energy effiency and new products being made that don’t give off CO2 emissions. It makes you wonder... does climate change really matter? Global warming is the increase of the earths average surface temperature caused by burning fossil fuels and releasing
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Climate Change Peoples Attitudes towards Climate Change A group paper is presented to the faculty of Mindanao University of Science and Technology – Jasaan Campus presented by Steven Castino‚ Geneth Caturan‚ Marjohn Deleon‚ John Henry Mercado‚ Julan Aricayos‚ Kimbert Pacana‚ Joseph Sumayang‚ June Rey Tarpin‚ Richard Nacua‚ Joel Cabelto‚ and Rey Carlou Cailing. I. Introduction Climate Change or Global warming is the increase of the average temperature of earth’s atmosphere‚ oceans‚ and
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Another key sociological approach to climate change is the conflict theory. To acknowledge this point‚ one needs to understand the economic concept of profit-maximization and cost-minimization. People naturally tend to act in their self-interest and that often results in clashes between one another. For instance‚ Should we close down a potable water factory because it is spilling its wastes in a nearby lake? Here is where the sociological perspectives come into place. It is necessary to weigh the
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