Understanding Climate Change

In the article “Understanding Faulty thinking tackle climate change” author George Marshall explains the psychological reasons why we ignore climate change. The article presents many biases we employ which affect how important we deem an issue and prejudices on why we choose to ignore it. After throughly analyzing the article based on its content and use off logos, ethos, and pathos I have concluded that every UTA alumni would be able to make their own connection with any of the statements provide in the article. Thus I would happily recommend the article be published in UTA’s newspaper The Shorthorn. George selectively includes some logos in an effort to persuade and appeal to his readers. He mentions that the latest report from the intergovernmental panel on climate change uses the word “uncertain” more than once per page. Thus indicating that even our governments are iffy on acknowledging climate change…

A. Introduction and Background The urgency of irreversible climate change effects requires mitigation and adaptation tools. The poor minorities of society are expected to be more severely impacted by the effects of climate change; generally, these minorities are less educated and geographically displaced in already problematic and polluted areas. These groups may have less capacity to be prepared and to respond to hazards created by extreme weather events and—even less, to be able to recover…

Comprehending Climate Change Climate change has been a pressing issue in our world. There are multiple factors that negatively impact our climate; ranging from businesses using fossil fuels, people’s negative habits, and so forth. Even though the government and a portion of society have been taking immediate action towards reducing further effects, there is still a good amount of people who are in denial of climate change or just do not understand it. There has been numerous articles, books,…

The purpose of this essay is to analyze monistic and dualistic views of climate change. Climate change has been the for front of environmental news and debate within the millennia. The biggest argument for the cause of climate change has been that it is primarily influenced by human activity. Public debates on this topic has been divided into individuals that humans are the cause of climate change, and those that believe the climate of the earth is constantly fluxing. There is an overwhelming…

Despite great advancement of climate science in understanding and dealing with the problem of climate change and its impacts on agricultural sector at the international level, awareness and the concern for the problem at local levels, especially among the rural farmers in Africa remains crucial. Because of the paramount importance of agriculture in most of sub-saharan Africa, special care must be taken in evaluating the dynamics of climate change as it affects agriculture in these regions. The…

In a recent poll, it was found that only 41% of the American population believe that the world is being harmed by climate change today, despite there being a scientific consensus that climate change is a proven matter of concern (Wike). Why do such large number of Americans reject the scientific consensus on climate change? There is a widespread misconception that there is a disconnect between scientists on the climate change issue, however the actual disconnect is between the public opinion and…

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…

Conservative Environmental Policies in A New Age Climate change is a very divisive subject. While some may attest that climate change is a subject that is divided on partisan lines, that can easily be dispelled by a group of elderly Republicans. These republicans aim to offset the damage to the environment by creating a tax that generates revenue by way of taxing where carbon enters the environment. John Schwartz, a writer for the New York Times, decided to report on the republican proposal. By…

Climate Change In the modern world, humans have made great developments and these advanced development’s contribution in our lives is considerable. On the other hand, the anthropogenic activities by the means of using these advanced technologies has a great effect on the atmosphere of the world. The human activities are the major cause of climate change in the world, which is destroying this planet and causing natural disasters. According to Leslie Allen in the article “Will Tuvalu Disappear…

In today’s society, climate change is an indisputable fact. While a multitude of individuals disagree over the extent to which it is induced by humans, climate change is a real threat to all inhabitants of planet Earth Joseph F. C. DiMento and Pamela Doughman co-authored the book Climate Change: What It Means for Us, Our Children, and Our Grandchild which discusses the severity of climate change. In the introduction “Introduction: Making Climate Change Understandable,” the authors explain the…