Everything we do affects the carbon in our atmosphere. Our world already has a natural, balanced carbon cycle to use and reuse the CO2 and therefore keep the levels at a healthy rate in the air. This process from sun to plants through photosynthesis, then into the soil as the plant decays, and evaporation back into the air, is disrupted by auto and factory emissions. We cannot control the natural carbon cycle, and we don’t need to because it is already balanced! However we can control the amount of other miscellaneous emissions we put into the air that offset the natural system. There are many sources of evidence that support a personal, and global stewardship responsibility toward a balanced carbon cycle.
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We see this because of its prevalence in presidential debates and disputes between countries starting in the 1990’s. America attempted to take a step towards global effort by promoting the Landmark Treaty that placed caps on emissions. China and other countries were enraged at first, seeing this as America’s way to advance even further in the economy. China eventually saw the evidence of global warming and agreed in 2014 to put caps on emissions by 2030. “Scientific evidence for warming of our climate system is unequivocal” states the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. CO2 levels had never crossed the 300 parts per million line in 650,000 years until 1950, and then continued to shoot straight up to 400 by our present day. There are many scientific and detailed researches documented on this but the global changes are obvious enough for anyone to recognize. It is definitely not just America; temperatures are projected to rise 5 degrees everywhere over the course of a century. There are many other events showing this global climate change- sea levels rising 17 cm in the last century, oceans warming 0.302 degrees Fahrenheit since 1969, the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets losing mass, glaciers retreating all around the world, ocean acidity increasing 30% since the industrial revolution, snow covers declining in the northern hemisphere and melting faster, all of these giving irrefutable evidence that global warming is happening and we need to do something about it on a global scale. The timing needs to be now because the rate of all these events are increasing as we speak, faster than they were even just decades ago. The White House has gone back and forth over this subject but overall has ignored it. They even went to the extent to recall and silence National Assessments that would have promoted global efforts toward a balanced carbon cycle. As the evidence grows, more
Science has proven an irrefutable …show more content…
We see this because of its prevalence in presidential debates and disputes between countries starting in the 1990’s. America attempted to take a step towards global effort by promoting the Landmark Treaty that placed caps on emissions. China and other countries were enraged at first, seeing this as America’s way to advance even further in the economy. China eventually saw the evidence of global warming and agreed in 2014 to put caps on emissions by 2030. “Scientific evidence for warming of our climate system is unequivocal” states the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. CO2 levels had never crossed the 300 parts per million line in 650,000 years until 1950, and then continued to shoot straight up to 400 by our present day. There are many scientific and detailed researches documented on this but the global changes are obvious enough for anyone to recognize. It is definitely not just America; temperatures are projected to rise 5 degrees everywhere over the course of a century. There are many other events showing this global climate change- sea levels rising 17 cm in the last century, oceans warming 0.302 degrees Fahrenheit since 1969, the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets losing mass, glaciers retreating all around the world, ocean acidity increasing 30% since the industrial revolution, snow covers declining in the northern hemisphere and melting faster, all of these giving irrefutable evidence that global warming is happening and we need to do something about it on a global scale. The timing needs to be now because the rate of all these events are increasing as we speak, faster than they were even just decades ago. The White House has gone back and forth over this subject but overall has ignored it. They even went to the extent to recall and silence National Assessments that would have promoted global efforts toward a balanced carbon cycle. As the evidence grows, more