Scientific opinion on climate change

In the article Why bother by Michael Pollan, I agree with his thesis about how if we don’t take care of the world and change our ways then this will result in a climate crisis. He also tells us about how today people think too much about their own problems that they forget about the other problems in the world and have others do it for them. I think that Pollan has done a good job in convincing people that doing something to help the environment will help make a difference. Everyone on Earth…

examine the role climate change played in the multiple natural disasters 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…

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 it’s atmosphere, it has been making drastic changes. We’ve also have been…

Climate Study IEGD 210 Surya Raut Dr. Helene Krauthammer Climate Change Various activities can cause climate change in the world. When climate change occurs; temperatures can increase a dramatically. When the temperature rises, many different variations can happen on the Earth. For instance, it can result in more floods, storms, droughts, or intense rain, landslides as well as more severe and persistent heat waves. Oceans and glaciers have…

Throughout the book “the sceptical environmentalist”, the author Bjorn Lomborg argues against the “litany of our ever-deteriorating environment” (Lomborg 2001, 3). The litany refers to the popular view point of mass environmental destruction and rapid degradation caused by the human race; which is shaped by the media with the messages and images we see on a daily basis (Lomborg 2001, 3). The litany incorporates the issues such as declining food security, water quality, biodiversity loss and…

It is sunny and hot: to what extent does heat and sun imagery shape Meursault’s action In the novel The Stranger by Albert Camus, weather imagery plays an important role. Some of the most important imagery is heat and sun imagery. The main character, Meursault, is always aggravated when the sun is present. Sun and heat are shown to control his emotions. The intensity of the heat and the sum are the main controlling factors of his emotions. Heat and sun can be interpreted as the relationship…

Unpredictable climatic shifts described by Brian Fagan in “The Little Ice Age” had a large impact European history from 1300 through 1850, marked by significant temperature drops and turbulent weather. During this time, families suffered after the weather ruined agricultural crops and caused fish to stay further south, in turn negatively affecting economies. The wet summers and cold winters also aided in the spread of epidemics. The failing crop harvests as well as flopping fishing territories.…

The specific topic of Asadorian’s article entitled “The Rise and Fall of Consumer Culture” argues that consumerism has been embedded in our culture, to such an extent that we view it as a “natural” way of life. The purpose of this article seems to be that humans need to realize that our culture of consumerism has everything to do with our treatment of the environment, and it tries to explain exactly in what ways institutions, media, and the government have contributed to this unsustainable state…

The nexus between climate change, poverty and inequalities. The influence between climate change and inequalities need to be concerned to find the link of climate change and human rights. Climate change is a global phenomenon with impacts spread across the world, however, less developed countries are more likely to have a severe impact than that of developed countries (The Global Climate Risk Index 2018). Especially those in the region near the equator, such as Central America, the Caribbean,…

This paper will review and evaluate the article written by Carole M. Cusack, the professor at the University of Sydney. The article is called “Science Fiction as Scripture: Robert A. Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land and the Church of All Worlds” and was published in journal Literature and Aesthetics in 2009. At that point professor Cusack was already a recognized expert on Religion Studies and Contemporary Religious Trends. She received her Bachelor degree in Religious Studies and English…