Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Climate change is a complex global issue that encompasses a multitude of physical systems ranging from the atmosphere to the carbon cycle to the cryosphere and the ocean. This brief provides an introductory overview of the current state of climate science, using data on historical and future trends from recent scientific literature. It explores the methodologies of scientific research on climate change; the role of the atmosphere and greenhouse gases (specifically carbon dioxide) in climate…

Global warming, the increase of Earth’s atmospheric temperature, and climate change, the long-term change in Earth’s climate, are enormous, controversial topics in today’s world. One possible cause of these two happenings -- human activity. This worldwide issue needs to be researched and focused on by the people. The long hot temperatures, excessive weather, and other abnormalities may be effects of global warming and climate change. In addition, if humans are to blame, all should know more…

vulnerability. Another prominent concept relative to policy focuses on a system’s adaptive capacity to respond and the vulnerability of functions that cannot adapt to changing climate. More specifically, adaptive capacity, Burton et al. (2002) argue, is “the ability of a system to adjust to climate change, including climate vulnerability and extremes, to moderate potential damages, to take advantages of opportunities, or to cope with the consequences” (p. 149). That is, there are built in…

definitely be noted that humans are also failing to consider the toll all this activity might be taking on nature and earth itself, more so the effects it has on climate change in particular.…

environmental changes through time that will continue to harm people and the earth. There are several topics which Al Gore talks about in the documentary, such as greenhouse gasses, climate change, and global warming. The issue of greenhouse gasses has become a problem to the planet by releasing amounts of gasses into the atmosphere. These greenhouse gasses known as carbon dioxide are released by the use of human activity. These activities are known as burning fossil fuels…

from industrial factories. The second one shows a picture about the green and clean world. So where do you want to live ? II. TOPIC/ RELEVANCE: Global warming is an increase in the earth‘s average atmospheric temperature that causes corresponding changes…

While climate change is a serious and potentially catastrophic prospect, it is still widely debated by many both informed and uninformed. However, those who are climate change supporters claim that we have an obligation to rectify this change caused by human influences before it is too late. The Climate Change 2013 (AR5) Synthesis Report is a collection based on reports made by three Working Groups of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) with the inclusion of special reports.…

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;…

A relatively new genre in cinema known as climate fiction has come into fruition ever since scientist have brought to our attention the occurrence of a human induced climate change. Climate fiction has been a hard film category to define, and an even harder genre to critique. A historical analysis of climate fiction is legitimate though the time period climate fiction in film covers is only 40 years. Its legitimacy spurs from climate fiction being a public response to a problem and also the fact…

Global Warming The climate system of Earth responds to changes in external factors that are able to push the climate towards warming or cooling. These factors include changes in atmosphere composition (concentration of greenhouse gases), volcanic eruptions, and solar activity changes. All of these factors combined create current tendency of climate change that is described by the term “global warming”. Global warming is the continuous rise in average temperature of Earth's climate system.…