Climate Change

Persuasive Essay # 111454

Environmental Studies > Environmental Problems
Hot Topics > Global Warming

Climate Change

An exploration of the problem of climate change and its solutions.

1,874 words () | 6 sources | MLA | 2009 United States

Paper Summary:

The paper discusses the causes of climate change that include the consumption of fossil fuels and the livestock industry. The paper then turns to the solutions that involve using clean burning biofuels, exploring nuclear energy, and reducing our dependence on livestock. The paper contends that we must reverse our utilitarian way of thinking and approach the problem with the sole interest of saving the environment itself. The paper also emphasizes that many changes in our everyday lives are necessary to make an impact on the environment.

From the Paper:

"One of today's most important and intense debates is whether climate change is occurring and if humans are the cause of the problem. Changes in the atmosphere, the oceans, glaciers and ice caps now show unmistakably that the world is warming due to human activities, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) stated in their 2007 report. Anthropogenic factors are acts by humans that change the environment and alter the climate. Various theories of human caused climate change have been debated and explored for many years. The issue of whether climate change is occurring or not isn't a valid question anymore, the fact of the matter is that it is occurring, and humans are causing it- backed up by scientific research including proof of human interference with greenhouse gas emissions, glacial geology and evidence of changing habitats due to rising temperatures."

Sample of Sources Used:

Livestock's Long Shadow. Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, 2007. http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/a0701e/a0701e00.htm
Solving Global Warming: It Can Be Done. National Resources Defense Council. http://www.nrdc.org/globalWarming/solutions/step1.asp
Global Warming 101, Human Fingerprints. Union of Concerned Scientists, 2006. http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science/Fingerprints.html
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2007 Report, Historical Overview on Climate Change. http://ipccwg1.ucar.edu/wg1/Report/AR4WG1_Print_Ch01.pdf
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2007 Report, Changes in Atmospheric Constituents and in Radiative Forcing. http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/Report/AR4WG1_Print_Ch02.pdf