The alarming issue for the world we live in today is global warming. Global warming means an ongoing increase in the temperature of the earth's atmosphere. It is generally attributed to the greenhouse effect caused by the greater levels of carbon dioxide and other pollutants by human’s activities. The fluctuated climate of the earth is believed began ever since the industrial revolution happened. Global warming could do more than just melting the polar ice in the artic but it could change the earth’s
the pH of the ocean over an extended period time, caused primarily by uptake of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere” (NOAA, 2014). Carbon dioxide (CO2) plays a major role in ocean acidification due to high solubility of gas in the water. These gases can be from different elements, such as Ar-Argon, He-Helium, CO-Carbon Monoxide, C2H6 –Ethane, N2 – Nitrogen, and more. Unfortunately, the gas, carbon dioxide (CO2) causes worries for a Professor named Cai, who works for the Department of Marine Science
Climate change- Natural phenomenon or Human induced? Introduction Climate change- often referred to, as global warming- is indeed a real and present danger to the environmental future of our planet. It refers to the increase/rise in the earth’s temperature. Although knowledge of this happening is wide spread, some countries are not as concerned as maybe they should be. Climates around the world differ from country to country, with a rise in temperature globally, different countries suffer different
Climate change is often discussed as a change affected by human activity, in contrary as the result of Earth’s natural process. In environmental policy, the expression of anthropogenic global warming is associated with the identical meaning of climate change. Noted Changes in the Climate System Warming of the climate system is set to be unambiguous, as shown by observations. Since the 1950s these changes have been unprecedented; therefore there have been clear consequences such as the atmosphere
Anthropogenic vs natural Global Warming Anthropogenic is the cause of climate change which is influenced by humans. Many agree that humans are the main cause of climate change due to all the toxins that we release in to the atmosphere on a day to day basis. However it is argued that that natural global warming is also a huge factor influencing climate change. Green House effect Scientists have concluded that most of the observed climate change is due to human activity witch affects the atmosphere
“A global deterioration of climate, by order of magnitude larger than any hitherto experienced by civilised mankind, is a very real possibility and may be due very soon.” - Scientists’ letter to President Nixon (USA), December 1972 Even back then, climate change and global warming has already been a concern to many people due to the disastrous effects it would have onto the world. Today, these two complications are definitely evident and observable in people’s lives. Due to climate change, the Earth’s
For example; cutting trees and plants to increase the area of farming affect some species of animal and plant loss their habitat, using chemical fertilizers, herbicides and insecticides to increase agricultural production which make soil and water cause toxic and kill the animal. All of these aspects are going to be based on the ideas from “The New Atlantis” a short story by Ursula K. Le Guin. It is going to be about the carelessness of humans and the effect on the environment. It is a story about
infrared emitted by the Earth’s surface, and re-emit this infrared to the Earth’s surface, thus warming the Earth’s surface more than it otherwise would be (Botkin & Keller, 2014). These gases are referred to as greenhouse gases and this warming of the Earth’s surface is referred to as “The Greenhouse Effect”. Figure 1 below presents an illustration of this greenhouse effect. The greenhouse gases cause heat to become trapped between the atmosphere and the Earth’s surface, similar to how air is trapped
Problem: The current problem we are facing is water pollution. There are several causes to water pollution. The cause I have chosen is oil spillage as it has an effect on the sea life. This is a problem because it kills many of the animals living in the sea and this causes the population of the sea life to decrease as they can die from the oil spillage since it is dangerous. It is dangerous because it coa43ts the sea and prevents oxygen and sunlight from passing and this leads to the death of sea