Climate Change: A long-term change in the Earth’s climate, especially a change due to an increase in the average atmospheric temperature. It is largely due to the increasing amount of CO2 released into the atmosphere. Ever since the industrial revolution, it has been a rapidly growing issue. More recently, however, certain groups of people have begun to deny this scientifically proven phenomenon. In fact, in 2015, Donald Trump, who now is the President of the United States of America has stated, “I’m not a believer in man-made global warming.” With this type of mindset, how are our future generations supposed to grow if our trust in science is shattered.
Throughout the Earth’s History, the temperature has been known to naturally fluctuate. It’s easy to think that the Earth is just going through one of its regular heat spikes, but you would be mistaken. Current warming is occurring at a rate ten times faster than the average …show more content…
As a result of climate change, the water levels and temperature will rise due to the melting of glaciers. These seemly trivial problems have been passed off as ordinary by many stating that this has naturally been occurring for a very long period of time, but yet again they’re wrong. By 2100 it is predicted that the sea levels will have risen 1-4 feel (Shaftel). This could possibly eliminate major parts of the coastline, and since around 39% of the American population lives near a coastline this could cause a major upset (What). Another effect climate change would have on the ocean would be its acidity. Since the industrial revolution, surface ocean waters acidity has increased by a staggering 30% (Shaftel). This can make it harder for corals to build skeletons and shellfish to build shells that are needed for protection (Increased). If we don’t stop putting massive amounts of CO2 emissions into our atmosphere our oceans could someday be