Conquering Cataclysmic Climate
Is it me or is it hot in here? Unfortunately, George W. Bush needs to be asked this question and about his beliefs of global warming. The human impacts that cause the greenhouse effect and warm the planet can be referred to as “Global Warming” which leaves some messy results to our environment. Carbon emissions have been substantially high in present day since the industrial revolution and has the society as a whole, worried about the future of the atmosphere. Not enough is being done in order to prevent the affects of global warming, even when the facts are present. Thanks to global warming, the ozone layer around the mid-latitudes of Earth is being depleted by greenhouse gases. Global warming affects the places, the activities, and the other values that all people cherish and enjoy. Global warming and the lack of political action is a problem that needs to be addressed with evidence and supportive facts.
To start off, evidence is needed to show the public that the global climate is changing. History illustrates climate change. In pre-modern times of the Earth's history, scriptures have been written about mountain glaciers that were more extensive and winters that brought worst conditions than those of present day. Even though evidence needs to be measured accurately and scientifically for this topic, evidence is visible in ancient civilizations. Sediments were taken in a Lake in Mexico, where ancient Mayans used to rule, and a period around 800 A.D. has shown that the lake was the driest it has even been in 8,000 years (Burroughs 127). These observations and examples shows the world citizens how climate change can affect the planet in which people have built habitats. The industrial revolution is a prime series in history in which carbon emissions in the atmosphere almost doubled thanks to human impact. Without significant interference by humans, one may expect the carbon cycle to achieve a balance in which carbon concentrations and exchange rates of CO2 would stay about the same over long periods of time (Balling Jr. 20). The evidence of global climate change is evident in any time scale. Evidence, data, and numerous observations lead to a single conclusion: global warming is unmistakably obvious.
With the present day changes going on in today's world, the consequences can be rather drastic. At the rate in which global temperature is rising, GFDL, The Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, believes that the tropical cyclone output will increase and create more deadly cyclones. The GFDL has this to say as an overview of the lab’s research on global warming and Hurricanes, “The strongest hurricanes in the present climate may be upstaged by even more intense hurricanes over the next century as the earth's climate is warmed by increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere”. Global warming can create a drought throughout the world which will fluctuate the price for crops. Not only will drought lead to economic impacts to the agriculture, but can also lead to world hunger, as if that problem is already colossal concern. Extreme changes in climate can also lead to possible human depletion. There is also speculation that warmer weather will bring a surge of malaria or bacterial diseases to hotter areas of the world, potentially devastating human health (Cohn). So global warming can have an economic, medical and a geostatic change to the world and have a massive impact to the human society.
So after looking at the evidence of global warming and the impacts of global warming, you might wonder what political actions are being done to deplete the affects of global warming. President Bush dismisses environmental report on global warming created by his own administrations. Not many actions can be made against global warming when the administration in power can not find common ground in global issues. It's not every day, after all, that the leading scientists from 120 nations come together and agree that the entire planet is about to go to hell (Dickinson). Bush does not allow United States to ratify the Kyoto protocol which would decline the amount of carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere (U.S Rejection of Kyoto Protocol Process 650). Even when ideas are presented to him and his administration, the cabinet still declines to go forth with possible preventions of global warming. Bush has political ties and special interest in many corporate industrial and oil companies. Global warming may not be the first thing on the president's mind when Bush has nearly millions of dollars invested in domestic and overseas oil companies. Action looks to be non-visible around Washington D.C. when global warming is the topic on the president's agenda. The president and the administration in power are supposed to be the leaders of the nation, and do the right things, but they are lacking the political action.
While it may be true that global warming has negative affects on our planet, some positive influences come into play according to Aaron Wildavsky. A carbon rich environment in which carbon as an immense fertilizer that not only vastly increases plant and tree growth but also and simultaneously vastly reduces the need for water (Wildavsky xxvi). The plant environment and the ecosystem in which we live in will be out of harms way if global warming were to cause a two or three degree Celsius increase in our global temperature. The Bush Administration withdrew the United States from the Kyoto Protocol because of the possible long term effects the protocol could have on the nation's economy (U.S Rejection of Kyoto Protocol Process 649). Without a doubt, the economy will maintain at a rather dominant continuation and develop a higher standard of living for most United States Citizens. In Britain alone, scientist estimate between 20,000 and 40,000 deaths a year are related to cold winter weather (Cohn). An increase in global temperature will decrease the dreadful freezing temperatures of winter in Britain and possibly reduce the number of deaths related to cold winters in Britain. Taking a look from both sides of the box of perception is a beneficial thing when analyzing a problem. Not everything is bad about the issue. There can be some silver lining in the dark cloud of global warming.
When looking through data, it is evident enough that there is not enough being done in order to prevent the affects of global warming. With the ozone being depleted, carbon emissions rising, and the greenhouse effect becoming more perceptible, President Bush needs to be asked what he plans on doing with this country when 2nd degree sunburns become common in society. Studies show that global climate change is evident even in times in which technology could not measure climate change. With these climate changes, economic and environmental impacts will come at its chaotic pinnacle. Even when these changes are visible, perceptible and things can be done to prevent this disaster; recommended actions are not processed by our ruling administration. Though there is evidence about negatives of the issue, some positives are found in global warming. Not every issue can be tackled in a short term of presidency. The values in which we look at our environment and society today need to be questioned and planned out in order to keep the world in which people lived in preserved from the historical changes. Now is never to late to do your part in order to keep the planet safe. Action must be taken in order to prevent the world from going into a chaotic climate of disarray.
Works Cited
“An Overview of GFDL Research on Global Warming and Hurricanes” GFDL.NOAA.gov. Princeton University. 8 November 2007.
Balling Jr., Robert C. The Heated Debate: Greenhouse Predictions versus Climate Reality. San Francisco, California: Pacific Research Institute For Public Policy, 1992.
Cohn, David. Global Warming's Silver Lining. Wired Magazine. March 28, 2005. Retrieved on October 26, 2007. <http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/news/2005/03/66981>
Dickinson, Tim. The Secret Campaign of President Bush's Administration to Deny Global Warming. Rollingstone.com. June 20 2007. Retrieved on October 23, 2007.<http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/15148655/the_secret_campaign_of_president_bushs_administration_to_deny_global_warming>
Prins, Gwyn. “Politics and the Environment”, International Affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs 1944-) Vol. 66 No. 4, Seventieth Anniversary Issue (Oct., 1990), pp. 711-730
“US Rejection of Kyoto Protocol Process”. The American International Journal of Law, Vol. 95 No. 3 (Jul., 2001) pp. 647-650
Is it me or is it hot in here? Unfortunately, George W. Bush needs to be asked this question and about his beliefs of global warming. The human impacts that cause the greenhouse effect and warm the planet can be referred to as “Global Warming” which leaves some messy results to our environment. Carbon emissions have been substantially high in present day since the industrial revolution and has the society as a whole, worried about the future of the atmosphere. Not enough is being done in order to prevent the affects of global warming, even when the facts are present. Thanks to global warming, the ozone layer around the mid-latitudes of Earth is being depleted by greenhouse gases. Global warming affects the places, the activities, and the other values that all people cherish and enjoy. Global warming and the lack of political action is a problem that needs to be addressed with evidence and supportive facts.
To start off, evidence is needed to show the public that the global climate is changing. History illustrates climate change. In pre-modern times of the Earth's history, scriptures have been written about mountain glaciers that were more extensive and winters that brought worst conditions than those of present day. Even though evidence needs to be measured accurately and scientifically for this topic, evidence is visible in ancient civilizations. Sediments were taken in a Lake in Mexico, where ancient Mayans used to rule, and a period around 800 A.D. has shown that the lake was the driest it has even been in 8,000 years (Burroughs 127). These observations and examples shows the world citizens how climate change can affect the planet in which people have built habitats. The industrial revolution is a prime series in history in which carbon emissions in the atmosphere almost doubled thanks to human impact. Without significant interference by humans, one may expect the carbon cycle to achieve a balance in which carbon concentrations and exchange rates of CO2 would stay about the same over long periods of time (Balling Jr. 20). The evidence of global climate change is evident in any time scale. Evidence, data, and numerous observations lead to a single conclusion: global warming is unmistakably obvious.
With the present day changes going on in today's world, the consequences can be rather drastic. At the rate in which global temperature is rising, GFDL, The Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, believes that the tropical cyclone output will increase and create more deadly cyclones. The GFDL has this to say as an overview of the lab’s research on global warming and Hurricanes, “The strongest hurricanes in the present climate may be upstaged by even more intense hurricanes over the next century as the earth's climate is warmed by increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere”. Global warming can create a drought throughout the world which will fluctuate the price for crops. Not only will drought lead to economic impacts to the agriculture, but can also lead to world hunger, as if that problem is already colossal concern. Extreme changes in climate can also lead to possible human depletion. There is also speculation that warmer weather will bring a surge of malaria or bacterial diseases to hotter areas of the world, potentially devastating human health (Cohn). So global warming can have an economic, medical and a geostatic change to the world and have a massive impact to the human society.
So after looking at the evidence of global warming and the impacts of global warming, you might wonder what political actions are being done to deplete the affects of global warming. President Bush dismisses environmental report on global warming created by his own administrations. Not many actions can be made against global warming when the administration in power can not find common ground in global issues. It's not every day, after all, that the leading scientists from 120 nations come together and agree that the entire planet is about to go to hell (Dickinson). Bush does not allow United States to ratify the Kyoto protocol which would decline the amount of carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere (U.S Rejection of Kyoto Protocol Process 650). Even when ideas are presented to him and his administration, the cabinet still declines to go forth with possible preventions of global warming. Bush has political ties and special interest in many corporate industrial and oil companies. Global warming may not be the first thing on the president's mind when Bush has nearly millions of dollars invested in domestic and overseas oil companies. Action looks to be non-visible around Washington D.C. when global warming is the topic on the president's agenda. The president and the administration in power are supposed to be the leaders of the nation, and do the right things, but they are lacking the political action.
While it may be true that global warming has negative affects on our planet, some positive influences come into play according to Aaron Wildavsky. A carbon rich environment in which carbon as an immense fertilizer that not only vastly increases plant and tree growth but also and simultaneously vastly reduces the need for water (Wildavsky xxvi). The plant environment and the ecosystem in which we live in will be out of harms way if global warming were to cause a two or three degree Celsius increase in our global temperature. The Bush Administration withdrew the United States from the Kyoto Protocol because of the possible long term effects the protocol could have on the nation's economy (U.S Rejection of Kyoto Protocol Process 649). Without a doubt, the economy will maintain at a rather dominant continuation and develop a higher standard of living for most United States Citizens. In Britain alone, scientist estimate between 20,000 and 40,000 deaths a year are related to cold winter weather (Cohn). An increase in global temperature will decrease the dreadful freezing temperatures of winter in Britain and possibly reduce the number of deaths related to cold winters in Britain. Taking a look from both sides of the box of perception is a beneficial thing when analyzing a problem. Not everything is bad about the issue. There can be some silver lining in the dark cloud of global warming.
When looking through data, it is evident enough that there is not enough being done in order to prevent the affects of global warming. With the ozone being depleted, carbon emissions rising, and the greenhouse effect becoming more perceptible, President Bush needs to be asked what he plans on doing with this country when 2nd degree sunburns become common in society. Studies show that global climate change is evident even in times in which technology could not measure climate change. With these climate changes, economic and environmental impacts will come at its chaotic pinnacle. Even when these changes are visible, perceptible and things can be done to prevent this disaster; recommended actions are not processed by our ruling administration. Though there is evidence about negatives of the issue, some positives are found in global warming. Not every issue can be tackled in a short term of presidency. The values in which we look at our environment and society today need to be questioned and planned out in order to keep the world in which people lived in preserved from the historical changes. Now is never to late to do your part in order to keep the planet safe. Action must be taken in order to prevent the world from going into a chaotic climate of disarray.
Works Cited
“An Overview of GFDL Research on Global Warming and Hurricanes” GFDL.NOAA.gov. Princeton University. 8 November 2007.
Balling Jr., Robert C. The Heated Debate: Greenhouse Predictions versus Climate Reality. San Francisco, California: Pacific Research Institute For Public Policy, 1992.
Cohn, David. Global Warming's Silver Lining. Wired Magazine. March 28, 2005. Retrieved on October 26, 2007. <http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/news/2005/03/66981>
Dickinson, Tim. The Secret Campaign of President Bush's Administration to Deny Global Warming. Rollingstone.com. June 20 2007. Retrieved on October 23, 2007.<http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/15148655/the_secret_campaign_of_president_bushs_administration_to_deny_global_warming>
Prins, Gwyn. “Politics and the Environment”, International Affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs 1944-) Vol. 66 No. 4, Seventieth Anniversary Issue (Oct., 1990), pp. 711-730
“US Rejection of Kyoto Protocol Process”. The American International Journal of Law, Vol. 95 No. 3 (Jul., 2001) pp. 647-650
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love the paper and i love you.
Bush is an idiot and global warming is some serious sh*%@!!
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