Human Contributions to Global Warming Essay

relocate, said Kelly. “There will be a lot more people will be living in Wisconsin,” Kelly stated. According to a report issued by the Pentagon, climate change is an “urgent and growing threat to our national security.” The report also stated that global climate change would have wide-ranging implications for National Security because it will intensify existing problems such as poverty, social tensions, and environmental degradation. Already, climate change is creating problems for the…

and perceived development will release more GHG’s, further contributing to climate change. Climate change, in turn, will add more pressure to an already strained natural resource supply. Climate change refers to a historically natural process of warming and cooling cycles on the Earth, which is…

For my second lesson I’ve decided to connect it to my first one in order to expand on the same topic of the season fall. In the last lesson we talked about how there are noticeable changes that occur when the seasons change, such as fall where there are colder temperatures, less sunlight, and more wind. These factors also causes nature to react such as causing the leaves to change color and fall off. In the last lesson it was an interactive read-aloud where I brought in a variety of different…

future generations that desalination can solve that need," (Leon Awerbuch). Water Desalination is a process similar to the water cycle, used to remove salts and other chemicals from sea water. Salt water is desalinated to produce water suitable for human consumption and irrigation (Water USGS.gov). When water desalination is used, it most completely reduces the widest range of Jupiter Ed https://login.jupitered.com/0/staff.php?sz=a2cd251f&user=619716 1 of 4…

Costly Savings Overview The day following Thanksgiving, Black Friday, corrects for the out of place joy the holiday brings to the dreary wintertime by completely opposing its basic principles. Where Thanksgiving brings appreciation and contemplation, Black Friday brings an insatiable appetite and a total disregard for others. While the dangers and rewards of Black Friday may often be exaggerated, total success will be a challenge. With enough planning and preparation any Black Friday goals can…

Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac introduces the concept of a “land ethic” which Leopold defines as a change in relationship between humans and the land—a transition from dominator to member—and the cultivation of a positive, symbiotic partnership (240). Currently, the relationship between humans and the land leans on the side of parasitic. Humans are leaching off of the natural resources of the land in a way that is not sustainable nor respectful, and are continuously causing irreversible…

An example of my life is when I see something on the television about how global warming is affecting everyone and we should start doing things to help prevent it. I start to bike to school instead of getting a drive and I start shutting the lights off when I’m not using it but soon after a week I go back to what I used to do because…

that occurred this season. Amanda Paulson, a Staff writer at the Christian Science Monitor, wrote the article Fire and floods: Did climate play a role in this fall's disaster? on October 13, 2017. Paulson points out climate scientists agree the warming of our climate has set the conditioning to warrant the abrupt climate changes and all the extreme events, we’ve seen lately. Scientists have connected Climate changes to more severe storms, hurricanes and one of the main causes of wildfires,…

“ The warnings on global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis. We are entering a period of consequences.” (Al Gore). Global warming is dangerous and changing our world, as the quote stated above and we’ve haven’t done much to decrease it. Global warming is a serious topic because we realize (and have known this for a while) that it has made a very big modification to our world today. How you may ask? We have been polluting our earth and…

shown, however their least effective are the interviewers. Plastic harms the ocean and its inhabitants, which also affects the people because they eat what has been in the ocean. Plastic has been in the marine animals we have eaten, and now it's in us humans. Some plastic just floats around for years on end, others do wash up in a remote island where all the albatross nests, and you can see how it affects them and their environment. All the washed-up plastic…