My name is Ibrahim.In this blog I am responding to an
assignment in my ENG 101 composition class on climate change. In this
assignment,I was told to explain the science of climate change to an
outsider reader who knows nothing about the topic, using two essays from
the book Global Warming Reader by Bill McKibben.
According to facts and evidence from the book Global Warming
Reader,it can be said that the temperature on earth is slowly increasing
thus making it hard for us humans to live in.This is because the rising temperature can lead to insufficient food & the rise of water level by the melting of the north and south pole icebergs and the dehydration of crops & animals which then can lead them to die. The rise of the water level may also cause natural disasters and many other catastrophe. This is what may happen if Earth's temperature keep adding up.
On page 76 of the chapter The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change,the International Panel on Climate Change a.k.a (IPPC) states that "Human activities are modifying the concentration of the atmospheric constituents that absorb or scatter radiant energy". What this quote is trying to explain is that,due to us humans activity , the earths natural course of depleting carbon dioxide and keeping itself balanced has been unorganized. So these carbon dioxide stay's in our atmosphere and heat's up the climate.This is called the Greenhouse Effect.
On page 76 of the chapter The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change,the International Panel on Climate Change a.k.a (IPPC) states that "Human activities are modifying the concentration of the atmospheric constituents that absorb or scatter radiant energy". What this quote is trying to explain is that,due to us humans activity , the earths natural course of depleting carbon dioxide and keeping itself balanced has been unorganized. So these carbon dioxide stay's in our atmosphere and heat's up the climate.This is called the Greenhouse Effect.
Also,on page 70 of the chapter The Anthropocene, Paul J. Crutzen & Eugene F. Stoermer explains "In a few generations ,mankind is exhausting the fossil fuels that were generated over several hundred million years.Coal burning and oil burning is at least two times larger than the sum of all natural emissions". By reading these evidence, i think people aren't really paying much attention to their environment. Or else why would they choose to hurt their world just to kill themselves. Mankind have evolved rapidly from barbarian's to a civilization. But the cost of this lead us to destroy our atmosphere. Changing our way just a little can do so much to our earth and i think its time we all learn that.
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ReplyDeleteHey Ibrahim, I like the fact that you introduced yourself and the topic. I would like to know who is saying this in the book. Your explaination Of the quote is great. I understand what you mean, but you don't explain what global warming really is. Maybe you should add the meaning in the first few sentences before you get to the data in the book . Also, what kind of human activities are doing damage to the earth? I agree with your last sentence, mayb you can include things that we can help with.
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