Climate Change Analysis: Exploring Causes, Impacts, and Solutions

This essay provides a comprehensive overview of climate change, examining its causes, effects, and potential solutions. It identifies both natural and anthropogenic factors contributing to climate change, with a particular emphasis on the impact of human activities such as fossil fuel burning, d...Read More

CLIMATE CHANGE

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Climate change can be described as shift in the weather or in other natural phenomenon
over the time due to anti environmental actions take place by nature or by anthropogenic moves.
The essay below will be discussing climate change, the main causes, effects and efforts taken
toward resolution of the issue.
MAIN BODY
Climate change refers to long term shifts in temperatures and in the pattern of weather.
This shift may be due to natural causes or by the activities performed by people. Specifically
after eighteenth century human activities have been the main driver of climate change, they are
prone to burn fossil fuels like oil, gas and coal along with it deforestation and improper
management of dump have been a strong reason behind such occurrence (Janssens, 2020)
Over the time the world is facing severe calamities like heat waves, draught and wildfire,
uncertain rain patter, storms, precipitation, tropical storms, hurricanes, snowfall and snow cover.
These all things are not new in the history of nature but their occurrence was very limited in the
previous years but as human being got evolved or developed it has changed these dynamics and
now their impact is more widened which is somehow impacting people's life on this planet.
As there are so many sets of data available to support the claims as water vapour
increases of 5 to 10% since 1970 and these lead to 5 to 20% increases in precipitation intensity or
may be more. Snow pack is observed to be much reduced across the northern hemisphere from
march through august 1966 to 2014 (Woollings, 2018) The warmest year on record for the US as
a whole was 2012 when there was a widespread drought in association with persistent
anticyclonic conditions over much of the country. If talk about heat waves then the most recent
example is the extreme Russian heat wave of 2010 with widespread wildfires, smoke,
agricultural losses and loss of life.
Causes
As above, it is seen that the climate is getting hugely impacted by so many things in
which both natural and anthropogenic activities are mutually responsible just holding human

being solely responsible won't be a rational idea, nevertheless the fact can't be ignored that
human activities are impacting it more than any other element yet there are many other elements
in this constellation.
If just we see the natural causes then there are so many such factors like solar variation,
volcanic eruptions, axial tilt, precession, eccentricity, continental drift, ocean current, natural
forest fire, greenhouses gases which are realized by natural factors. These all factors are
underestimated when it comes to climate change, irrespective of their contribution in the
emergence of the problems (Leiserowitz, 2019)
Human finger prints with this regard are also deeply related. Specifically after
industrialization, for productivity maximization and for supporting energy, other resources needs
of industries the environment became ultimate victim. It got brutally impacted by human
activities. Like fossil fuels burning is one of the prominent cause, for more need of energy our
dependency on oil, gas got hiked which resulted catastrophic situations.
Further the changing pattern of land uses is also a big horrendous point. Less land is
being used for agriculture and deforestation is also taking place which is disturbing the natural
process of the land under which zillions of small insects are thrived, who are keeping the fertility
of the land alive also got damaged. So these all factors are impacting the natural scenario with
greater contribution of anthropogenic activities.
Effects or major consequences
The planet on which our lives are thriving is apparently unsafe and the devastating results
of impacts on our lives can't be ignored or nullified as many reports disclosed and in daily life
the drastic outcomes we are experiencing, are living testimony of its impacts (Hutchins, 2019)
In last couple of decades the world is facing tremendous amount of such climate driven
tragedies like the temperature on the planet is getting hotter, storms which were earlier a rarity

are now so often on many parts of the world, drought is becoming scarer in more regions, rising
ocean and ice melting is another issue (Gobler, 2020)
Escalation in natural calamities is not the only outcome of the climate change but on
regular interval the loss of species is emerging as one of the toughest issue to resolve. Years back
the wild fire took place in Australia resulted death to lacks of species, fire of amazon forest also
killed so many animals. These are sudden events but in many countries the indigenous species
are also being disappeared due to climatic disruptions.
Potential outbreak is not far away to take place and more horrific outcomes may also be
experienced by human being if the things are not controlled.
Steps or efforts
Efforts from various organizations, NGOs, countries etc. are taken toward the issue.
Therefore, it is fare to say that people are also getting conscious toward climatic health and are
striving to make it better.
IPCC is timely presenting its assessment reports presenting the overlook of our nature.
Initiatives like SDG and MDG are also pushing governments to ponder over the nature. Months
back when G-21 was held in which unanimously the world leaders discussed and upheld the
issue off climatic health.
Various governments and independent bodies are also addressing the issue in their way to
maximize the outcomes, as the government of UK has taken commitment to reduce greenhouse
gas emissions by 50% on 1990 levels by 2025 and to net zero by 2050 (Ballew, 2019)
There is surely need of more intensive efforts to augment the results since this is
impacting life of people and other entities and may turn out more horrific results in the future.

CONCLUSION
From the essay above it can be concluded that the climate change is presenting severe
challenges before mankind. Both natural and humanistic causes have been responsible behind
this challenge. Further the consequences and efforts toward resolution had been discussed in the
essay.

REFERENCES
Books and journals-
Ballew, M. T., 2019. Climate change in the American mind: Data, tools, and
trends. Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development. 61(3). pp.4-18.
Gobler, C. J., 2020. Climate change and harmful algal blooms: insights and perspective. Harmful
algae. 91. p.101731.
Hutchins, D. A., 2019. Climate change microbiology—problems and perspectives. Nature
Reviews Microbiology. 17(6). pp.391-396.
Janssens, C., 2020. Global hunger and climate change adaptation through international
trade. Nature Climate Change. 10(9).pp.829-835.
Leiserowitz, A., 2019. Climate change in the American mind: April 2019. Yale University and
George Mason University. New Haven, CT: Yale Program on Climate Change
Communication.
Woollings, T., 2018. Blocking and its response to climate change. Current climate change
reports. 4(3).pp.287-300.
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