Global Elders

risk because of rising sea levels and predict that by 2070 as much as 2.9 million people and assets worth 2.1 billion dollars can be affected by floods caused by storms. Hurricane Sandy, which had devastating consequences, is one of the examples of global warming and the first warning of the dangers that can be expected in the future.…

Chapter 1. The carbon emissions curve is exponential. What does that mean, and what observations or implications do the authors draw from it? When they say that the carbon emissions curve is exponential, it means that they are “the type of curve you get when the more of something you have, the faster that something grows” (p. 56-57). The emissions curve will continue to grow as long as we keep adding to it over time. This means that the only successful way to stop it would be to stop adding to…

it being the presidential election season the talk of global warming, also known as climate change has come up in conversation more. But should it be associated with whether you are republican or democrat? Global warming should not be rather you “believe” in because it is a stated fact. Many individuals do not know the correct definition and what global warming should mean to them. The definition by the Oxford Dictionary declares that global warming is a gradual increase in the overall…

one of our most overlooked problems we contribute to is global warming. There are many ways how we can help end this tragedy, the two easiest being; lowering our carbon dioxide output and help putting an end to deforestation. Global warming is the increase of the overall temperature of earth’s atmosphere, surface, and oceans. The main problem is that our average temperature is rising and is causing many environmental and social changes. Global warming is responsible for the melting of our polar…

Global warming, as one of the many facets of climate change is unequivocally the most pivotal climate, health, security and economic issue of the 21st century. The anthropogenic factors towards global warming are inextricable to the exponential increase in global mean temperature and its reciprocal effect on global climate systems (IPCC 2014; Keller et al. 2005; Rogelj et al. 2015a). Explicitly, international initiatives to maintain below a increase of 1.5˚C and far less than 2˚C above…

opting to vote for a third-party. While it is important to read over each of Trump and Hillary’s policies, some stand out more than others. Environmental issues are important. Many people are advocating for a much greener nation and others believe that global warming isn’t an issue. Both candidates have spoken out about the environment and other problems relating to it. Their stances and policies will be laid out in this paper. Donald Trump was an unexpected nominee for the republican party.…

Climate Change How much does everyone really know about climate change and Global Warming? Or what it does to planet Earth? Due to climate change the Earth’s temperature has increases rapidly more than ever within the 20th century, the global temperature has increased from 0.6 to 1.0 Celsius (Conserve Energy Future, 2013). Climate change has affected the Earth in tremendous ways such as the changing the amount of gas in the atmosphere, melting polar ice caps, animals becoming extinct, etc. It is…

The International Panel on Climate Change has reported that global temperatures have increased up to 0.74C in the last century alone, meaning that the earth has been warmer prior to this data. This has initially proposed the question on whether or not humans have played a substantial role in the warming of the earth or if such fluctuations have been natural occurrences over the last 11,000 years. As proposed by Crowley (2000), climate change cannot be spoken of without anthropogenic cases,…

Saving Planet Earth: How We Started and How to Stop Global Warming I chose to write my final paper on climate change because I find this topic tremendously important. This topic is important to me because we are seeing major changes with the place we call home, and if we don’t stand up and take responsibility and start to fix these problems, we will have some major issues for the coming generations. We need to come together as one and fix this problem. It won’t be easy, but if we all work…

The idea of peace is an ever changing concept that is influenced by the society of the time. In early ideas of peace, some philosophers concluded that peace is whatever God wills it to be and other believed that because peace is not something that is natural to humans and therefor peace is unattainable. In a society in which violence is not only occurring on a daily basis but seems to also be accepted by the general public, it is hard to imagine a world peace is a priority. This becomes an even…