Consequences Of Climate Change

It goes without saying that change is hard. Regardless of the circumstances, whether positive or negative, it is an instinctual habit of people to generally seek the easiest and laziest way out of a problem. Especially when it comes down to a huge modern day issue like that regarding the consequences of inaction to human-caused climate change, a large majority of people are so inclined to finding an easy solution that they will simply adapt to or even ignore the effects of climate change so that they do not have to deal with the issue themselves. A study published in a 2013 magazine issue of Science found that, over the past 100 years, global warming has proceeded at a rate faster than at any point within the previous 11,300 years (“Is Human …show more content…
Not even the realm of Smokey the Bear is safe from the effects of climate change, as increased greenhouse gases slowly raise the average planetary temperature and lead to an increased risk and severity of wildfires not just in Western America, but all over the world. With the global average temperature on the rise as a result of climate change, earlier snowpack melts combined with longer heat and dry spells lengthen the wildfire seasons and open up room for more damage to be done. Looking specifically at the Western United States, an area consistently ravaged by powerful wildfires, the average annual temperature in the region was calculated to have increased by 1.9° F since 1970, nearly doubling the