about it, made a brief assumption, and kept going on with your life carelessly forgetting about it. “Well, doesn’t climate change all the time?” or, “Why should we care?”. In truth climate change is real and also a serious issue. The Earth's climate has changed throughout history, most of these slight changes are caused by small variations in the Earth's orbit, but climate changes we know of today are characterized by an increase in the Earth temperature. According to NASA’s Earth Observatory…
scientific report released Monday by the White House. The conclusions of the report on the health effects of climate change in the United States are not new. But Obama administration health officials, including Dr. Vivek H. Murthy, the surgeon general, said the study, which was reviewed by the National Academies of Science, offered the strongest evidence to date that links climate change to health risks. A number of scientific reports have suggested that a warming planet may exacerbate certain…
research paradigm. Following this, data collection and data analysis are explained. The contributions of this study and its research focus are discussed in the next section. Next, a methodological approach to obtain an appropriate model combining climate production factors is described step by step. At the end, a detailed description of the research method, the system dynamics approach, is outlined. 3.1 The research paradigm and method The research paradigm applied in this study is based on the…
The earth’s climate is changing all the time. There are ice ages and heatwaves. At the moment we are going through another climate change. A statement from Barack Obama at the 2014th United Nations Climate Summit says, “There’s one issue that will define the contours of this century more dramatically than any other, and that is the urgent threat of a changing climate” (Fox News, 2014). This shows that climate change is a real thing and people did not just come up with it. Global warming is the…
The subject of climate change has been hotly debated over the past decade. It is now obvious that the climate is changing and that it is more than likely going to cause problems in the future. The amount of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere has considerably increased since the Industrial Revolution. As fossil fuels such as coal, natural gas, and crude oil are burned, carbon dioxide is discharged into the atmosphere where it is trapped. This is called the greenhouse effect and…
Fossil Fuels also have a great influence on climate change. The burning of fossil fuels in factories and electricity production cover the earth and heat is trapped in, which does a lot of damage. Moreover, Excess heat has dramatically begun affecting the environment. Patrick O 'Driscoll and Dan Vergano, authors who are a part of a company called Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, “Among the findings, Tebaldi says, is that even if people stopped burning the fossil fuels that…
It is apparent that the issue of global climate change and how to create a more sustainable environment are becoming more and more prominent in social media. One good example is the film, Chasing Ice; a chilling documentary that follows the work of nature photographer, James Balog, on his expeditions across the arctic to capture the devastating effects of global warming on camera. Balog has been able to document the melting of polar ice caps and track the aggressive rate at which they are…
1. Introduction Climate change is a crucial issue of our era (Annan, 2007) and is expected to have serious environmental, economic, and social impacts on resource limited countries such as Cameroon. In particular, small-scale farmers depending on available natural resources as well as on traditional farm practices are more affected. Like elsewhere, local farmers' perceptions of climate change and their strategies to mitigate its impacts are based on indigenous knowledge and their own…
future climate change and its possible diminishing ice caps. Snow and ice can easily change between solid and liquid states in response to relatively minor changes in temperature. Climate change can happen dramatically, and can alter and reduce the Earth's snow and ice covered areas.…
atmospheric temperature in Virginia was nearly 0°C in January 2000 but rose to about 25°C in July 2000. This makes sense because temperatures are low in January and high in July. The temperatures started dropping again around October because of the change in season. The amount of precipitation depends on the region. Regions near the ocean typically receive more rainfall than regions inland. This could be due to the movement of moist air from the ocean to land, causing more evaporation. The…