Tuesday, 4 November 2014

Global Warming: Is it a Real Threat to our Biosphere?





Global Warming: Is it a Real Threat?

Climate change, free with severe weather, flooding, loss of biodiversity and more! All that is asked of you is to continue burning fossil fuels, emitting harmful toxins in the air and keep contributing to climate change and the wonderful perks will come your way!
     The world today isn't like a bad TV advertisement, therefore we shouldn't act like it is. Globally, Earth is almost turning into a ball of fire each and everyday. Climate change is a real concern and if we continue our patterns like we have been, we will start seeing biodiversity loss, flooding, severe weather changes, extreme increase of temperature, etc.

Globally, temperatures have risen in what seems like a small amount; 2°C. With our busy everyday lives, we don't think of this change often, but the problems are being increased while we worry about our personal activities. The rising 2 degrees adds to the albedo effect, resulting in a positive feedback loop. The loop begins with increasing temperatures, which leads into less snow and ice, meaning more sunlight is absorbed by the sea and land and the loop repeats itself. As long as let this chain reaction continue, the longer the process is going to repeat.

Although these changes affect our environment, they also affect our everyday lives. With increased global temperatures, the heat will contribute to some health risks, along with increased bills (electricity, hydro etc.), and fossil fuels will become more sparse as we continue burning them. The toxins in the air will cause health problems and trap heat as well. All of these factors will contribute to not only our Earth but to our living conditions.



Friday, 3 October 2014

Climate Change Is Not A Concern

Climate Change Is Not A Concern

Today, I  would like to talk to you about why I feel climate change is not a concern. Today in the media many famous people like Al Gore and Leonardo DiCaprio are trying to convince people the  need to change the way they live because our earth is getting warmer. Many people who think climate change is real try to show us proof through a famous graph called the Hockey Stick Graph. At first the graph looks very convincing that climate change is disturbing and our earths temperature is going to rise dramatically. When you look carefully at the graph you will notice that our earth's temperature is expected to rise only 0.6 degrees Celsius in fifty years. Scientists seem to be at odds whether this is a natural occurrence like the ice age or a result of humans carbon footprint . In addition to this, 0.6 degrees is minimal.  If you were to walk into a room that was 0.6 degrees warmer you probably wouldn't know the difference.  I doubt the earth will have irreversible consequences over a 0.6 degrees increase. Finally, our earth is very adaptive , it has gone through an ice age and many other natural disasters. Advanced technology may soon change many aspects of our lives including climate change.   I think our earth can handle a 0.6 degree change in temperature and to anyone who reads this, keep living your lives the way you are and don't be concerned over such a minor change.


Wednesday, 1 October 2014

Global Warming is a Big Issue!

Global warming is a huge issue that we are facing today in the world. Not only is it a concern for us, but it is a concern for future generations to come. Global warming is causing the ice caps to melt and that can cause flooding at the coastlines. This can also cause the spread of disease and there will be a loss of habitat.

The ice caps are melting and that is causing serious issues for us and the habitats in the arctic area. Cities on coastlines will be flooded and people won't be able to live there anymore.




This is a picture of the world when the ice caps fully melt.

The ice caps are melting at a fast rate and the polar bears living there have no where to go. Polar bears are slowly going to go extinct because the ice they usually walk and hunt on is gone causing them to drown and starve to death.




This is a picture of the polar bears in the arctic on the small pieces of ice.




Tuesday, 30 September 2014

Is Global Warming an effect






Is Global Warming an effect

Do I think Global warming is a big concern to the world? Yes I do think it’s a big concern and I think  global warming is affecting everyone. I think, as our climate changes, it’s affecting everyone’s health with the risk of injuries, illnesses and death from things like heat waves, wildfires, intense storms and flood rises because if the temperature keeps rising it will start affecting people’s health. Global climate change has already had observable effects on  things like the environment. Glaciers have been shrinking. The ranges of the plants and animals have shifted  and trees are flowering sooner.



Global warming has started to melt the ice sheets and started decreased the population of the polar bear. ⅔ ‘s of the polar bears  population will decrease by 2050. A polar bear is a mammal that spends more time in  sea than on land.  
     The  greenhouse gas emissions from all  human activities are  increasing , they build up in the atmosphere and warm the climate, leading to many other different  changes around the world—in the atmosphere, on land, and oceans. The changes are  both positive and negative effects on everything including people, society and the environment—including both  plants and animals. After being released in the atmosphere many of the major greenhouse gases stay up in the atmosphere  for tens to hundreds of years afterwards  over a long period of time the warming effects on the climate continue to change therefore this can affect the generation of today and all future generations.

This is why I think global warming is an effect to everyone and everything .

Climate Change Is Not A Big Deal

I believe climate change is not that big a deal because the earth has been having spikes in temperature for the last 400,000 years and the current spike in temperature is the lowest it has been through those years however I have realized that there is a relationship between co2 levels in the atmosphere and the earth's global temperature it has been happening throughout that time span and currently the co2 levels are the highest they have ever been that means the temperature should be the highest it has ever been so my argument is if the earth has handled higher temperatures I believe it can handle this one

Global Warming

Scientist are making Global Warming sound way worse than what it actually is, so therefor we have nothing to worry about because, scientist have no solid proof that climate change is actually happening. I believe that climate change is just a theory and so I have nothing to worry about along with hundreds of thousands of other people on the planet. Yes CO2 levels are happening but they will not be affecting us because again they are all just theory’s. I also believe that it is just the earth’s natural cycle and the earth will adapt to anything it needs to because it has so far and we are all still here and it has not yet affected us. Another reason Global Warming is not a problem is because there is physical or virtual proof that Global Warming is actually happening. Yes there is climate change happening and the temperatures are rising but that will not affect us. the sun is expanding which is making the temperatures causing the solar flares to get trapped in the atmosphere. the reason the tempatures are riseing is because it is the cycle of the earth it will cool down agian. These are my reasons for not believing in Climate change and Global Warming.
CLIMATE CHANGE IS NOT HAPPENING.

Global Warming. It's not of major concern

To fellow bloggers,

I personally believe that climate change is not something that is of major concern to earth.  This is because going back thousands of years you will see on record that the earth has undergone many extreme climate changes and has consistently adapted and survived.  Also 16 scientists all have said that the mean temperature of the earth has not changed in over a decade.  Many climatologists believe that ecosystems and animals will not be able to adapt to the changing climate around them but animals and ecosystems as a whole show signs of adaptation to climate change all the time.  Some signs of adaption to weather is shown through hibernation in certain types of animals, and even through animals with fur like cats who have thick coats during the winter and thin ones during the summer. 

So is global warming as big an issue as everyone is making it out to be?