What Is The Cause Of Climate Change

Glaciers are components of the earth’s nature and according to the National Snow and Ice Data Centre; they are highly sensitive to changes in temperature arising from climate change. The center has observed through photo evidence that glaciers all over the world have been decreasing and also some glaciers, ice caps and ice shelves have disappeared completely in the last century. Many more are decreasing at an alarming rate, such that in a matter of years if appropriate measures are not taken, they will be gone. Scientists have identified the cause of this glacier retreat as human activities that increase greenhouse gas emissions, such as coal burning and use of fossil fuels for transportation and industry (“National Snow and Ice Data Center” np).
Further evidence of climate change is the increase in the number of natural disasters. In an article by Suzanne Goldenberg for the Guardian newspaper, she cites a report from the World Meteorological Organization which stated that natural …show more content…
Is man responsible for any perceived increase in global temperatures? Are the perceived warm temperatures at any alarming levels to have the huge social and economic investments? These are some of the questions sceptics of global warming ask themselves and, thus, discrediting the idea of global warming. In 2007, IPCC set temperature increase projections between 1.1 to 6.4 degrees Celsius. However, in 2013, during the release of the 5th Assessment Report, the IPCC lowered the projections of temperature increase to between 0.3 and 4.8 degrees Celsius. Even after lowering these projections, the 2014 temperatures were lower than stated (Global Warming Policy Forum n.p). Therefore, this is the first evidence that global warming is all talk and nothing has come to pass from the many projections and ‘future’ investments made to address this issue and the stability in temperatures over the years against the higher projections are illustrated in figure 2