Fracking and its Negative Impact on Climate Change

Running head: CLIMATE CHANGE
Climate Change
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1CLIMATE CHANGE
Climate change can be described or called as global warming and it is referred as the rise
in surface temperature of the earth. It is accepted by the scientists and researchers that due to the
excessive use of fossil fuel by humans has led to the rise in greenhouse gases and carbon dioxide
in the atmosphere in the air. The gases that are trapped within the atmosphere has led to the
several negative impacts like the landscapes getting susceptible to wildfires, severe weather
events, rising levels of the sea, the effect on the ecosystem. Fracking is also on such activity that
is controversial and has contributed positively to the environmental pollution (Boudet et al.).
Thesis statement- With humans relying on fossil fuels to run the earth, it is starting to
have a gradual effect on our climate change. Fracking for fossil fuels has never affected
agriculture more, depletion in crop and livestock production every day can be seen. Fracking is
stripping the earth from its natural state and leaving the atmosphere vulnerable to harsh and
harmful conditions.
Fracking, in short, is used to describe a process called hydraulic fracturing and this is an
industrial process that is able to break apart the formations of rocks for the purpose of extracting
the fossil fuels like methane gas and oil. The oil and gas are found in the rock formations which
are called shale. These fuels thus are called shale gas or shale oil. It has been claimed by the
fossil fuel companies that fracking is practised with safety. However, very little is known about
the long-term environmental impacts associated with fracking (Jackson et al.). It has been seen
that the due to the advancement in technology and changes in economics has allowed the several
fossil fuel companies to frack on a larger scale. At the same time, it has been found out these
fossil fuel companies have warned the investors regarding the various risk associated with injury
to the workers, environmental damage arising from explosions, spills and chemical leaks. The
advent of the newer technologies has rendered fracking more dangerous and profitable and