Global warming, we see it as sad polar bears hopelessly swimming for their lives in the ocean. It's shown as rising sea levels that can washout entire cities. It even sometimes gets turned into politics but scientifically, what is the definition of global warming? It is the heating up the of Earth, caused by infrared radiation that gets stuck in our atmosphere because of the increase of CO2 put into the atmosphere. Infrared radiation is electromagnetic radiation that cannot be seen by the human eye, but we feel it as heat. Seems pretty logical doesn't it? To some it doesn't seem as reasonable. Some believe global warming isn't a man made problem, but just a cycle of ‘weather patterns’. For example, our now president -Donald J. Trump- doesn't consider climate change to a threat to the inhabitants of earth. Our president also said that global warming is a ‘hoax’.
“Snowing in Texas and Louisiana, record setting freezing temperatures throughout the country and beyond.
Global warming is an expensive hoax!”
-Donald J. Trump
This is what many people believe, and this tweet too seems pretty logical to a majority of people. But in 2014 January 29th when Donald J. Trump posted this tweet, there was record setting freezing temperatures happening nation and worldwide. But also 2014 was one of the top three hottest years on record. Now that doesn't seem like a ‘hoax’.
Humans don't like being wrong. It's embarrassing, uncomfortable to believe something and then be confronted about it. So that's why there's still high percentage of people who don't believe in the change in climate. People who work with oil companies don't want to acknowledge it because it can ruin their business. Politicians ignore the problem because it costs money to fix our past mistakes. That fear, people being scared, it makes us shut down. But we can try ignoring the problem, but the thing about problems is, they can be ignored but they never truly disappear. Weather may feel the same as every other year, but The whole world is heating up, including our vast oceans.
Tropical hurricanes need to have surface water temperatures to be 26°C or more for them to form. As our oceans get hotter hurricanes are able to form farther out in the sea
The topic I connected to Global Politics and Environmental Science is Donald Trumps opinion about climate change. Ever since Donald Trump became president, there has been a denial from him about this issue because he thinks it’s a hoax. More specifically he tweeted on November 6th 2012 saying “The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive” and he also doesn’t believe climate change even exists. I agree that global warming and climate change do both exist and they also impact our environment. Global warming is the ongoing rise and change in temperature near the Earth’s surface which can also change the pattern of the climate. Climate change is happening everyday because of
Global Warming is one of the biggest hoaxes in the modern day, and there are a lot of reasons why. There is actually no real scientific proof that the warming occurring is from the rise of greenhouse gases from human activity (Tesla). The warmer periods in Earth started 800 years before rises in CO2 levels in the atmosphere (Tesla). The Earth has always had significant changes in climate throughout geological time (Tesla). Another reason is that arctic ice has increased by 50% since 2012 (Conserve Energy Future). The reasons that Global warming is flawed are that the warmer periods in Earth started 800 years before the rises of CO2 levels in the atmosphere (Tesla), The Earth has always had significant changes
Through looking at recorded snow fall totals, Lake Freeze overs, and agriculture impacts one is able to start seeing trends in environmental changes. By looking at record snow fall records we can get a sense of historical air temperature and see how a specific location has been warming. Lake Freeze over data also gives good indications of an average air temperature increase. But there are still many people in this world that doubt that climate change is real. Yes earth goes through different periods of time where the climate has changed drastically. Look at the Ice Age, there was a time where a huge glacier stretched all the way across Vermont and in some places that glacier was 2 miles thick. Take for example, former Texas governor Rick Perry, who is in charge of the Department of Energy stated in 2011 that, “Global warming was an unproven scientific theory.”(Sidahmed, M. (2016, December 15). To the new presidential administration the topic of climate change has been looked at as a joke or even as a false idea. What we now know with the amounts of glaciers residing and the rise in temperatures and sea levels I believe that this subject is a bigger topic than what they believe. This subject needs to be taken seriously and we as humans need to take responsibility for some of our actions that have impacted climate change. I strongly disagree with many different actions that our president has taken regarding the issue
Global warming is real. Seven billion people contribute every day to destroying our planet. Global warming is gradual heating on earth due to the greenhouse gasses like carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels are trapping heat that should be escaping earth. John Hawkins a columnist, wrote an article Five Scientific Reasons That Global Warming Isn't Happening, Hawkins suggest a global warming on our planet isn’t happening because the scientific evidence available suggested that man wasn't causing global warming. However, our planet is showing facts on how it is being consumed quickly. The heating of the planet has been linked to melting glaciers, partial information on climate change including partisan articles.
“All across the world, in every kind of environment and region known to man, increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it real, it's here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster.” BARACK OBAMA, speech, Apr. 3, 2006. Climate change is not a theory contrary to what many individuals believe and is in fact confirmed by major scientific agencies such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in the United States. Global Warming causes are mainly due to greenhouse gases
Donald Trump, ruthless businessman and future president, who will be inaugurated on January 20, 2017, has proclaimed again and again that he does not accept the scientific evidence that climate change is real. This is a surprising remark considering that it’s a well-known fact that “97 percent of scientific experts agree that human-caused climate change is real”. It was also revealed that on his campaign website he has nothing about the environment, unlike Hillary Clinton who listed “protecting animals and wildlife” and “climate change” as two main topics on hers.
Climate change, global warming, greenhouse effect—even if you only watch the news periodically, these are phrases that you have most likely become aware of. In short, climate change is the change global and regional patterns regarding climate; this is due to possible changes in the Earth’s axis, human activity modifying the composition of the atmosphere, or geographical activity such as volcanic eruptions [1]. Many have speculated and argued whether climate change actually exists. Regardless of your opinion, a staggering amount of scientists have accepted climate change as a reality. In fact, the much-admired astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson claims that individuals denying scientific facts is the “beginning of the end of an informed democracy” [2]. The article Climate Change: No Hiding Place supports Neil deGrasse Tyson’s notion stating “those who doubt that greenhouse gases are quite the problem they have been cracked up to be by most of the world's climatologists” [3]. While it may be difficult to see climate change presently, there are many indicators of its existence with the higher temperatures and acidity levels in the ocean, the melting of Arctic ice caps,
Global warming projections have been proven wrong many times. The majority of predictions made by scientists were not true. Al Gore, the 45th Vice President of the United States and an environmentalist, said in 2008 that the North Pole would have no ice in the next five years. “...Arctic sea ice coverage was nearly 9,000 cubic kilometers by the end of [2013] melting season, up from about 6,000 cubic kilometers during the same time last year.” The Arctic ice has not been decreasing, but increasing. Just like Al Gore, most of the other scientist that says global warming is an important issue, are
Many people believe that climate change is not real because there is not enough proof to say that greenhouse gases or man-made problems have caused climate changes. Our 45th President, Donald Trump believes that climate change is a “hoax”, “Donald Trump and other officials -- including some of his picks for top environment and energy posts in the federal government -- often deny or doubt the scientific reality that humans are causing the Earth to warm,” because our planet is billions of years old. Since our planet is very old, throughout the earth history temperatures have often been warmer than now and CO2 levels have often been higher, more than ten times as high as it is today. “Many retired climate scientists dedicated to disentangling myth from fact, asserts bluntly that there is no proof that CO2 is the main driver of global warming” and a large body of scientific research suggests that the sun is responsible for the greater share of climate change during the past hundred
There is an unfortune truth when it comes to climate change and the United States specifically. Because of the fairly new technological and financial advances into a blossomed first world country, businesses and media pick up the bad habit of spreading misinformation due to buzzwords or to maintain their comfortable industries. Because of this, along with uneducated and uninformed consumers wishing the same,people will blindly accept these allegations of climate change being a hoax like it is a piece of propaganda against the government or that they are just plain wrong because in the short-term and in their perspective, they see nothing wrong. The birds are chriping, the sun is shining and everything is as it should be, but once people are educated and informed of facts, statistics, academic reports, funding cuts, and hidden personal endeavors, they begin to realize that climate change is being misunderstood either by conscious denial (and pretending to agree for the sake of making others believe so too) or by general misinformation.
Extensive research from various scientists indicate that, from carbon emissions and several other factors, global warming does exist. Countries throughout the world have been putting their efforts into research surrounding this topic to see if it is an actual problem. Globally, all of the top ten warmest years have happened since 1998 (NOAA, 2015). One of the most confused claims from citizens is that “It is cold outside, therefore global warming is not real or happening.” But, just because the temperature of one area is below normal does not mean the average temperature of the Earth is rising. Many scientists and officials claim that the Earth is being warmed more and more each day, while others claim the Earth is going through a period of above average temperatures, as is has many times before. Evidence can sway uneducated citizens towards the facts of global warming or the “hoax.” The rise in carbon emissions and average temperature of the entire Earth cannot be ignored. But, many say that this is just a periodical rise in climate temperatures. Others say that there is no warming and the evidence is fake or a hoax. But, after all positions are taken, global warming is a serious issue that needs attention.
What is global warming? Global warming is a slow increase in the overall climate of the world 's atmosphere normally associated with the greenhouse effect caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide and other type of pollutions.
The media and masses have continuously argued the truth and reality behind the idea of global warming. Global warming is " an increase in the earth 's atmospheric and oceanic temperatures widely predicted to occur due to an increase in the greenhouse effect resulting especially from pollution". The greenhouse effect is essentially the idea that gasses and other substances trap heat in the lower levels of Earth 's atmosphere coming from the sun, which in theory makes the Earth 's temperature rise. Many scholars, of various professions and backgrounds, have debated whether this concept is true and harmful to the inhabitants of Earth, or if the media and politicians are benefiting from establishing fear in individuals.
Loads of flawed information is being shot at us and we continue to take it as fact rather than delving into the information and discovering the authenticity of the data we are given. Global warming has and is happening. We can not possibly deny that fact. What we need to figure out is if it is human caused and if it will be harmful to the earth in the future (Global Warming Fast Facts 1). Sometimes we do not get the whole truth like in the case of the hurricane count going in up to 2x as many since 1970 to 2009. Where, in actuality, in 2007, there was a decrease. That information that is hidden though because the story is more dramatic if the scare is increased. Everything
Global warming is depressing affecting the earth, as we speak. While some disagree with this belief, scientific studies clearly state the amending of our natural surroundings. Furthermore, there are countless ways we can slow these effects and prevent further damage. Climate change is a modern problem, with global environmental patterns with consuming fossil fuels that we are strongly accountable for.