Climate

Climate change is a global phenomenon which impacts different people unevenly (Vinyeta and Lynn, 2013). Research suggests that public beliefs on climate change vary significantly (Taylor et al., 2014), and different people view the risks associated with climate change differently. Addressing public perceptions of climate-change risk can be challenging, due to the socio-cultural construction of risk and its multi-dimensional complexity (Etkin and Ho, 2007). Thus, differing perspectives on climate…

Measuring the different climates there are many different tools that are used. The Koppen Climate Classification is the most widely used tool to classify different climates in the world (Pidwirny, 2011). Overall, there are five major climate categories; Tropical Moist Climates, Dry Climates, Moist Mid-latitude Climates with Mild Winters, Moist Mid-latitude Climates with Cold Winters, and Polar Climates. The climates are not perfect and human-beings are not helping the issue. We are distributing…

Understand Faulty Thinking to Tackle Climate Change was written by George Marshall for the August 2014 issue of New Scientist. At the very top of the article, with no introduction or explanation is the authors claim, which reads “ The amorphous nature of climate change creates the ideal conditions for human denial and cognitive bias to come to the fore”. The article then begins by introducing the reader to four people and their perception on climate change –Daniel Kahneman, who won the Nobel…

Climate change is a very significant, yet controversial environmental issue that has come to societies attention in recent years. Studies have shown that climate change causes negative environmental changes such as destruction of ecosystems, frequent droughts, and increases in global sea levels (Heath & Gifford, 2006). Although there are many studies that show evidence of climate change and the negative effects it has on the environment, there are still people that refuse to believe that climate…

Although climate change can somewhat help a civilization, it can also lead to a civilization with limited resources and eventually a downfall of a society and or a corrupt economy. Climate change can be defined in several different forms, though most would say it is a change in global or regional patterns. There can also be major health effects when climate change occurs, threatening diseases can occur after a major change in the climate. Droughts, floods, tsunamis, hurricanes, and heat waves…

Basically climate change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns when that change lasts for an extended period of time. Climate change is the greatest threat to nature and humanity in the 21st century and it is happening everywhere. Even today, in many parts of the globe we can see some effects of climate change - melting glaciers, rising sea levels, severe storms, heavy floods, reduced snowfall in the north and a severe drought in the south. Even though the Earth's…

hotly debated in not only science, but politics. As such, climate models have been created in order to predict future conditions: including how air pollution plays into it. The physics of this technology ranges from simple laws to complex concepts that are difficult to grasp. However, reading the models is easy enough to understand, and they are pivotal in interpreting data revolving around air pollution. Thus, the advancement of climate models (and the physics that surround it) are vital to…

A climate map is a map that helps you determine climate in different areas.The most dominant climate in the middle east is an arid or desert climate (pg: 362) . Some countries that have an arid climate is Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Oman, and Yemen. All four of these countries have an arid climate. Countries that have a Mediterranean climate are the countries that are located near the Mediterranean sea. Some of those countries are Iraq, Turkey, Israel, and Iran. Climate has a huge impact on where…

responsible for the depletion of this vital planet. There are many things that are caused by the wastefulness and carelessness of humans, but climate change is one of the more immediate threats. The effects of climate change throughout the world is a serious issue, however, people…

Global warming and climate change can both refers to the observed centuryscale risses in the average temperature of the Earths climate system and its related effects, although climate changeing can also refers to any historical change in climate. Multiples lines of scientific evidences shows that the climate system is warming up . More than 91% of the additional energy stored in the climate system since 1975 has gone into ocean warming; the remainder has melted the ice, and warmed the…