Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Climate Change 2.0

Physical: Climate change has supposedly been destroying the planet slowly. Whether it be from agriculture on land producing green house gasses, or the ice caps by sea melting slowly. Scientists are saying that the world is slowly starting to fall apart. If the atmosphere doesn't give way first, then we will all be drowned eventually.

Psychological: The idea of climate change scares a lot of people. Scientists are not super scared at the moment because the process is a very slow one. They still worry and some may even may be called paranoid. A few environmentalists say that if we do not start taking better care of the planet the process may speed up.

Social: The conclusions of climate change are made strictly by scientists. This isn't a simple smaller group, we are talking about over thousands of scientists coming together to figure this out. Most of the scientists are actually volunteers and don't receive funds. The many different viewpoints of the situation definitely help solve the problem a little quicker.

Temporal: Climate change has been happening for many many years. Humans have always had an impact of change on the planet, whether it be from producing green house gasses to something as simple as littering. The climate will slowly continue to keep changing whether we like it or not and if it is not regulated soon it may start accelerating.

Cultural: As I mentioned earlier the scientists are from all over the world. There is not a set group of people who are trying to solve this on their own. The attitudes towards this are all very similar. If something is not done soon then we may all have doomed ourselves.

Ever since I was a little kid growing up there was always talk of global warming. I always laugh when somebody brings it up. I honestly don't think that the Earth is slowly starting to get warmer. The seasons have never changed and the Earth typically stays the same temperature year round. There are a few days of the year where a record "warmest/coldest day since .... comes out,'' but for the most part the Earth stays constant. Social media makes an impact on this by showing pictures of places years ago compared to today. Of course they are going to be different. Weather affects everything and makes changes happen. The article I read was very interesting, but I quite enjoyed what was being said. One thing that stuck out to me the most was that 97% of climatologists agree that we have a role to play in climate change which I agree with. There are so many people living on the planet how can we not affect the planet?

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