Permafrost

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…

Climate change is one of the greatest threats facing humanity in the 21st century. As global patterns of temperature, rainfall and weather events change, the delicate balance of climate and life on earth is disrupted. The imbalance in climatic patterns poses serious threats to human health, biodiversity, human livelihoods, global economy, water resources and agriculture. Developing countries especially in Africa are more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change than countries in the developed…

bringing everything from salmon to bald eagles. “While Minnesota was busy bragging about 10,000 lakes, Alaska stopped counting after 2 million.”(Fodor’s 46) The interior forest region has deeper soil but 75 percent of it is taiga with many patches of permafrost. Trees are mostly all broadleaf trees which include birch and…

The arctic ice pack is a primary indicator of global climate change. Arctic ice melting is largely due to carbon dioxide emissions. In recent weeks, the arctic ice pack has shrunk to an extent that no computer model nor scientist had thought possible. The term, ‘arctic ice melt’ refers to the ice located at the arctic circle that is warming due to severe climate change. In certain high latitude regions such as the Arctic Ocean, the surface waters are actually colder than the deep waters and the…

Global warming. This topic or word has probably come up so many times over the past few months, maybe in daily conversations, on the media, at school or even at the workplace, and most of the time, it’s not always good things we hear. This might be true in some cases, especially considering the fact that from 1948 to 2013, the average annual temperature of Canada has increased by 1.6 degree Celsius (StatCan, n.d.). Resulting, in a much more rapid rate of melting at the northern ice caps. For…

What a coincidence that after the American Industrial Revolution in the 1760 's-1840 's, 40 years later the Earth began to warm up. The Earth begins to warm up due to the amount of carbon dioxide that is released to the atmosphere. During this time period to this day, humans have destroyed the environment and have replaced them with industries, houses , and etc increasing the amount of carbon dioxide rapidly. This new change has erupted various catastrophic consequences such as climate change,…

There is a multitude of environmental issues in the world such as deforestation, water shortage, population growth, the list is truly endless. However, climate change has an enormous impact on almost all of these issues. It has been proven that humans have an effect on global warming and climate change. While it is true that greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide exist in nature by clear cutting forests, and burning fossil fuels we are making the situation significantly worse.(Effects of Climate…

too. In Alaska, many of the trees are now known as “drunken trees”, due to the fact that they are leaning from side to side. This is happening because they have been planted in permafrost, which is soil that is permanently frozen, and have lived this way for centuries. Unfortunately, because of global warming, the permafrost is melting causing the trees to become unstable (Gore 89). Eventually this can lead to the them dying, leaving Alaska barren. Although the land masses of the world are…

Diary of a traveling survivalist Dear diary, Today I investigated the desert. I investigated the hot and the cold deserts. Deserts can be found in the United States, Africa, Asia, and even Antarctica. Out here in the desert there is a harsh unforgiving terrain. The climate in both is almost unbearably dry. In the hot desert, there are extreme temperatures. In the day, the temperature is sweltering hot and at night it is freezing cold. The cold desert retains the cold temperature throughout the…

“If the world continues to burn fossil fuels at the current rate, the Earth’s temperature will rise two degrees Celsius by 2036, crossing a threshold that will harm human civilization,” according to Michael Mann, a leading expert in climatology and geophysics. If this is true, then this means that we have only twenty years to try and reverse the effects of global warming. The only way to productively save the planet from global warming is to immediately stop burning fossil fuels and invest in…