Understanding Climate Change

Article Summary The article written by Al Engler discusses the possibility that the increase of carbon dioxide in the air is a leading cause in forwarding the effects of global warming. Due to the increase of this (and other) greenhouse gases, consequences of global warming will continue to escalate until we put a stop to adding to the natural greenhouse effects with our own carbon emissions. However, as Engler states, “The problem is capitalism.” Because fossil fuels provide billions of…

Current issue in the Great Barrier Reef Great Barrier Reef (GBR) has been in the centre of topic for environmentalist for the past decades as it is the biggest and longest natural coral reef in the world. With thousands of exotic aquaculture species that are exclusive to that region only, it has become one of the heritage national marine parks in the world. However, with the mining boom in Queensland, more ports and industrial activities have been taken places along the coastal regions to boost…

Always keep the lights on in room with red LED lighting, and keep the lights off in the other room, close the doors to both rooms when done. Then leave both the plants and rooms alone until the following day. 8. Next Day: Observe any physical changes to all 40 bean plants and record all the data for all 40 of bean sprout seeds from both rooms at 7:00 am the next day, and record your information in your charts. Use a ruler to measure the height of the bean sprout plant growth (use the ladders…

Arctic Oscillation Weather Anomaly The Arctic Oscillation (AO) is a two-phase climate pattern circulating in the Artic region and the mid-latitude regions of Earth. This oscillation pattern is the second largest on Earth, with the El Niño/La Niña cycle being the largest. While these weather patterns are a normal part of the Earth’s climate system, scientists continually monitor fluctuations in the AO to determine its natural state versus the man-made impact through global warming. The…

The impact of rising waters continues to increase, along with the way to protect cities and building from the damage they cause. I found that there are three main arguments that the article “Costal cities need to rethink how they deal with rising waters” included. The first one is the science behind how much damage they cause and how much they need to prepare for. The second argument is the effects of what we do and how we build. The final reason is The history and location of those effect by…

Albert Einstein once declared, “The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.” No matter who you are, what you are, or where you are, we all have one thing in common; we’re horrified of the world, and it’s only getting worse. John Arguilla is a firm believer that the world has never been more dangerous, and he expresses this opinion in, “Is the World Getting More Dangerous?” On the contrary, Emma Ashford is a strong advocate…

The overwhelming majority of scientist believe that this contributes to an unnatural degree of global warming that has the potential to affect the global climate, destroy animal populations and change local ecosystems. (Backing)(Thompson 2) (Warrant) Electricity increases the amount of greenhouse gases leading to the increase in global climate; switching electricity systems to solar panels should decrease the amount of greenhouse gases which then would allow for the temperature increase to slow…

Global warming has various causes, effects, and multiple solutions to help our physical world from drastic climate change. Global warming is caused by both unnatural and natural causes. An unnatural cause includes the greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect is caused by greenhouse…

Earth’s environment since the 1950’s creating dramatic changes and dangerous new records. In the last three decades the Earth’s average surface temperature has each been successively warmer than any previous decade since 1850 as a result of increase greenhouse emissions (IPCC 2014). This temperature rise is impacting some of the most vulnerable ecosystems on the planet such as the polar regions, coral reefs and tropical rainforests. Climate change can also be connected to an increase in extreme…

the mainspring of our planet extremely heating. Professor Michael Daley states: “Gas molecules that absorb thermal infrared radiation, and are in significant enough quantity, can force the climate system. These type of gas molecules are called greenhouse gases” (Lallanila). For many years now, global climate change and global warming has been a major issue discussed amongst scientists and their research. In 2014, IPCC announced that 95% of the main cause of global warming comes…