Nancy Leon
Lawerence Watson Climate Change 11 June 2017 Climate change is a big controversial topic that is going on right now. The denial that people want to believe that the Earth's climate is not getting hotter and that climate change is a hoax. The facts have been shown and supported by scientists that climate change is happening. Carbon dioxide in the air is increasing, there have been 2 times the record highs than record lows, sea levels are rising. And those are only a few examples of how scientist know that climate change is happening. According to Senator James Inhofe he believes that just because it snows outside climate change doesn’t exist, so his beliefs on climate change are wrong and he is mixing up climate with weather, which most people tend to do. Weather and climate are often confused because of how similar both of the words are. Climate is weather tracked in a specific area for a long period of time, and weather is the state of the atmosphere at a place and time such as heat rain,snow, wind etc. weather can only be determined in a short period of time because weather is never predictable. That is why the forecast is never 100 percent correct, we can only predict what the weather is going to be like because of background knowledge. As for climate it is a summary of how the weather usually is at that area, it doesn't necessarily mean that the weather is like that all the time but it is saying that most of the time the weather will be determined by the time of the year and how hot or cold it can be. Main areas such as agriculture will be affected by climate change due to how the heat is rising. If the heat rises the ice glaciers start to melt causing the sea levels to rise, making it difficult for farmers and workers to grow crops. Agriculture takes a big role in our lives due to the fact that, that's how we can be able to produce our food and feed the animals so we can be able to have them as a resource as well. Agriculture has made a huge impact on the world, if it is effected in any way we can see severe destruction to crops and to how much food is being supplied. We need agriculture so we can survive. Drought will cause crops to fail. Global warming can make a huge impact on the crops because fruits and vegetables have to be grown at a certain time and if global warming continues seasons can be missed and then some crops will be more difficult to grow due to the weather change. Most people believe that climate change won’t make a big impact on the planet because they say it's happening now that we're doing perfectly fine, we as a society may be fine right now but later in the future climate change will turn into something bigger and it will affect everyone’s lives. By making an impact now we can help the planet so that we aren't at a high risk of endangering our planet. We need to help as people to keep the planet from emitting so much greenhouse gases into the air. And we have to help people so that they can have a better understanding about what the difference between weather and climate change are, and help them realize how climate change is affecting us. Scientists have predicted that climate change can only get worse in this situation but if we enforce rules and makes acts and law we will be able to see change and make the earth a reliable place to live again. Sources http://www.dictionary.com/browse/weather https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/noaa-n/climate/climate_weather.html https://www.seeker.com/10-signs-climate-change-is-already-happening-1767448823.html https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03012017/agriculture-climate-change-paris-agreement-global-warming-drought https://climate.nasa.gov/news/
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