Sign Up Now
Get instant access to over 1 million+ study documents
OR
Already registered? click here to login
By creating your account, you agree to our terms of service, privacy policy and student honor code.
Climate Change
The question at hand is whether governments will act to curb rising temperatures. I do not believe that they will. There are many reasons for this. Curbing rising temperatures requires a number of strong actions, because those rising temperatures are created by greenhouse gas emissions -- burning fossil fuels in particular, releasing CO2 into the atmosphere. We would need to localize production again, instead of shipping goods all over the world using trucks. As consumers, we would need to reduce or eliminate consumption of many goods. We would need to stop living in suburbs and starting living close to where we work so that we could walk or drive. We should also need to stop flying in airplanes. And this is not just something that Americans can do -- governments all around the world need to put these measures into place. Now consider if it is possible to shut down the airlines, and what the effects of that might be. Is it possible to tear down the suburbs and start from scratch with our urban planning? How long would that take? Stopping climate change is not simply a matter of putting a few restrictions on power plant emissions, it is a matter of completely overhauling our way of life, since modern life has been built almost entirely around the consumption on fossil fuels.
The problem is that the actions to curb rising temperatures would be incredibly disruptive to just about every aspect of our daily lives, and the action needed would have to be immediate and global in nature. These are the primary problems. The CQ article points about that President Obama has called for reduction in greenhouse gases from power plants, and levying additional taxes on carbon-based fuels. If the President was capable to doing such things without Congress, it does not matter, because these moves are not nearly enough. In principle, if something like a tax -- or the cap and trade system -- was large enough, people would be motivated to change their behaviors.
This is not…
Climate change; Too hot to handle? Climate Change In respect to the world peace, today, there are various issues of concern for survival of humanity in the universe. There are growing interest into the subject of arms race, regional conflicts and continuous injustices among people and nations. However, among the challenges related to these issues, one surpasses the understanding of humanity on measures to adopt in combating it. This is the subject
Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol An analysis of the effectiveness of an international agreement to mitigate the consequences of Climate Change without the involvement of the United States Climate change, also known in some circles as global warming, is a phenomenon that has been the subject of a vast amount of attention in recent decades. This issue stands the potential not only to threaten many animal species around the world, but
2009). At the same time, a careful scientific study that attempted to account for the natural temperature cycle of the Earth, which is mainly driven by oceanic currents, found that even with natural variability accounted for the trend in the twentieth century has been an unrelenting warming trend (Swanson et al. 2009). Discussion These results lead to varying conclusions regarding the causes of global warming and the effects it will have
Geomorphologic evidence of glacier fluctuations in Iceland during the Late Holocene is abundant. Furthermore, Iceland has a unique documentary record of ice-front positions between the times of settlement, around AD 870, to the early 20th century. Many of Iceland's larger outlet glaciers have been systematically monitored since 1930. Consequently, a general description of glacier conditions exists for the past/1000 years, in addition to a detailed knowledge of ice-front fluctuations
Climate change and its impact Introduction Climate is a part of our everyday lives. The change in temperature, swift winds blowing by and rainfall are all because of climate. The United Nation Framework Convention on climate defines climate change as an alteration of the atmosphere because of direct or indirect human activity that jeopardizes the natural climate viability observed over a period. Climate change is tracked using various instruments measuring every aspect
Ecology DebateThe problem of rising sea levels and the displacement of vulnerable populations is one that scholars and researchers have addressed from different perspectives. However, one of the problems of wading into this debate is understanding whether the points of view provided by researchers adequately address the problem at hand. This paper provides a synthesis of the ideas of several authors to show that even though the issue of climate