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The document discusses how humans have caused climate change through activities like burning fossil fuels. It provides evidence from scientific reports that humans are responsible for 100% of the global warming since 1950. The effects of rising temperatures include more extreme weather, melting ice caps, and rising sea levels. While significant damage has already been done, the document argues that small efforts to reduce emissions could still help slow or reverse climate change.

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Climate Change Studypool

The document discusses how humans have caused climate change through activities like burning fossil fuels. It provides evidence from scientific reports that humans are responsible for 100% of the global warming since 1950. The effects of rising temperatures include more extreme weather, melting ice caps, and rising sea levels. While significant damage has already been done, the document argues that small efforts to reduce emissions could still help slow or reverse climate change.

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Climate Change: Humans Caused It, We Resolve It

By: Danica Rafols

Do people realize how our actions lead to the destruction of our habitat? For
years, humans are served with information with regards to climate change yet we fail to
instill in our minds that it is us humans who caused this detrimental phenomenon to
occur. People don't want to believe that climate change exists because knowing that,
would mean to change our lifestyles like segregating garbage into 3 cans instead of 1
which would require a bit of an effort on our behalf and to be frank, no one wants to do
the extra work. Was it in elementary that we learned about the water cycle, about how
one thing affects the other? Similarly, climate change is but a chain of events in which
humans are heavily involved.
According to a 2017 CarbonBrief report, an analysis revealed that scientists have
been able to estimate that humans are responsible for 100 percent of global warming
that influences climate change. The science on human contribution to modern warming,
on the other hand, is quite clear. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change's (IPCC) fifth assessment report, human emissions and activities have caused
around 100 percent of the warming observed since 1950. This study was later
reinforced by NASA's Dr. Gavin Schmidt, who pointed out that the IPCC's had implied
the best guess.

It has been observed by various studies that our temperature has been rising
abruptly over the year. The effects of these hotter weathers have impacted the lives of
millions of species. There were frequent extreme weather events such as bushfires,
typhoons and droughts. Furthermore, glaciers and ice caps are melting all over the
world that results in a greater volume of water in our oceans that causes sea levels to
rise, threatening low-lying islands and coastal cities.

Although significant damage has been done, it is not yet too late to slow the
rate or reverse global warming and climate change. Small efforts, such as lowering
human emissions of heat-trapping gases or greenhouse gases, can make a significant
difference in the fight against climate change. According to Climate.gov, if all human
emissions of heat-trapping gases were to cease immediately, the Earth's temperature
would only rise for a few decades. The Earth's temperature would then stabilize when
the extra heat radiated out into space. Without additional human intervention, natural
processes would begin to progressively remove excess carbon dioxide from the
atmosphere, and global temperatures would gradually decline (Herring & Lindsey, 2020).

We all know that global temperatures are rising – and we know why. For
centuries, humans have been burning fossil fuels to power their lives but it seems ironic
that while we are doing that to live, the opposite happens for the possibility of our
survival is cut short. We must not turn a blind eye to this climate crisis because the
signs of global warming are everywhere and are more complex than just climbing
temperatures and changing weather.

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