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 of the climate from temperature, humidity, rainfall and wind speed. The climate changes, this is a fact, but there are measure to be put to prevent adverse changes that affect human life in earth.
The issue of climate change tends to divulge difference in opinion with there being two groups; climate skeptics and climate believers. Climate skeptics speak about climate as well as scientist would but believers speak about climate as scientists do since they always base their arguments on facts and evidence but not logic.
Literature review paragraph
The negative effects of climate change around the world have resulted in multiple theories from the scientific community. A research indicated that climatic factors influence the emergence and reemergence of infectious diseases, in addition to multiple human, biological, and ecological determinants (Patz 1996). Another research shows that the climate change that takes place due to increases in carbon dioxide concentration is largely irreversible for 1,000 years after emissions stop (Solomon 2009). A different investigation shows that sea levels across the world are rising faster than ever, the United Nations has warned, meaning we urgently need to increase action on climate change (Vaughan 2019). Carbon dioxide emission are high in the atmosphere today due...
References:
1- https://science.sciencemag.org/content/306/5702/1686 The scientific consensus on Climate Change
2- https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/394508 Climatic factors influence the emergence and reemergence of infectious diseases, in addition to multiple human, biological, and ecological determinants.
3- https://www.newscientist.com/article/2198091-climate-change-is-making-the-seas-rise-faster-than-ever-un-warns/ Sea levels across the world are rising faster than ever, the United Nations has warned, meaning we urgently need to increase action on climate change.
4- https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/full/10.1175/2009JCLI3139.1 proposes a modification to the standard forcing–feedback diagnostic energy balance model to account for 1) differences between effective and equilibrium climate sensitivities and 2) the variation of effective sensitivity over time in climate change experiments with coupled atmosphere–ocean climate models.
5- https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1539-6924.2005.00686.x Implicitly contains the question of how to respond to the complex and multi?disciplinary risk issues that climate change poses.
6- https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/B:CLIM.0000004559.08755.88 Climate change-induced sea-level rise, sea-surface warming, and increased frequency and intensity of extreme weather events puts the long-term ability of humans to inhabit atolls at risk.
7- https://www.pnas.org/content/106/6/1704?sid4fdad7e-23ad-4d54-a3c6-75041ad31328= This paper shows that the climate change that takes place due to increases in carbon dioxide concentration is largely irreversible for 1,000 years after emissions stop.
8- https://www.pnas.org/content/106/37/15594.short This paper briefly outlines the basics science of climate change as well as he assessment on emissions scenarios and climate change.
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