Climate Change Report: Global Problems, Factors, and Initiatives

This report addresses the pressing issue of climate change, providing a detailed overview of the problems associated with it on a global scale. It identifies key factors influencing climate change, such as the distance from the sea, human influence, and ocean currents. The report further explores the impacts if the problems remain unresolved, including rising sea levels, extreme weather conditions, and threats to human health and the ecosystem. It also discusses the inter-relationships between the influencing factors, presenting models like the Methane Release and the Iceberg Model to visualize these connections. Finally, the report examines present initiatives taken to address the problem, emphasizing the importance of an integrated system approach to understand the complexities of climate change and find effective solutions. The report concludes by highlighting the need for large-scale actions by businesses and governments to reduce energy consumption and promote smart energy choices within communities. This report is a valuable resource for students seeking to understand the multifaceted nature of climate change and explore potential solutions.

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Executive summary
The report has identified the problems occurring because of climate change globally. For capturing
the details various ideas and tools are included. At last the current initiatives to address the problem
are discussed here.

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Table of Contents
1. Introduction:......................................................................................................................................3
2. Problems due to climate change:.......................................................................................................3
3. Concepts and tools regarding climate change:..................................................................................4
3.1. Factors influencing climate change:...........................................................................................4
3.2. The impacts of the problem if unresolved:.................................................................................4
3.3. The inter-relationships between the influencing factors:............................................................5
4. Present initiatives taken to address the problem in climate change:.................................................7
5. Conclusion:........................................................................................................................................8
References:............................................................................................................................................9

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1. Introduction:
The climate change has been one of the most important environmental threats towards
humanity. This is caused because of the greenhouse gases due to burning of the fossil fuels.
Moreover the destruction of the sectors storing huge amount of carbon are also the reason behind
this.
The following report has identified the problems occurring in climate change. In order to
capture the details various ideas and tools are included. Lastly the current initiatives to address the
problem are discussed here.
2. Problems due to climate change:
As the gas, oil and coal supplies are burnt and the vast areas of the peat lands and forests are
destroyed, the greenhouse gases get poured in the atmosphere. Moreover it causes the disruption of
the sensitive balance of the gases that have been sustaining the life on earth. Thus the world scenario
is transforming and possessing devastating effects on the environment and the people. Majority of
the climate scientists have agreed on the fact that the increase of global temperature are down to the
human activity (Stocker 2014).
One of the most vital effects of this is that it has been affecting the water resources across the
world. The water has been tied intimately to the resource and the social issue like the heath industry,
food supply, ecosystem integrity and the transportation. The effect of the climate change has been
already seen across various diverse geographical areas. The forests at many places have been
supporting limitless ecosystems and species and have been among the one of the instances of at-risk
habitat. The global melting of the glaciers and ice sheets has been denoting another immense toll

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over the ecosystem (Collins et al. 2013). Further, the climate change has been threatening to the
health of the descendants of human species. This is because of the rise in freshwater shortages,
disease, worsened smog and many more. All this problems has been also posing numerous economic
risks that have been far outweighing the financial risks of taking action in current times.
3. Concepts and tools regarding climate change:
3.1. Factors influencing climate change:
There have been various factors affecting the climate change. They are discussed below:
 Distance from the sea
 The shape of the land
 Ocean currents
 El Niño
 Direction of prevailing winds
 Distance from the equator
 Human influence
3.2. The impacts of the problem if unresolved:
The glaciers, sea ice and the permafrost are been disappearing. There has been rise of sea
levels and dying of coral reefs. The changing of seasons and extreme conditions of the weather are
now common. The impacts of the problems are responsible for killing about 310,000 human beings
every year with damaging the ecosystem. Moreover the scientists have predicted that more than 2°C
increase in the global temperature would lead to effective catastrophic problems (Shine 2014). Thus
there would be more drought, disease famine, war, flooding.

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3.3. The inter-relationships between the influencing factors:
At this context the mitigation has been much more promising, bringing more immediate
financial scopes and possibly more visible quick effects. However seeing the trends in carbon-di-
oxide emission and the changes in the surroundings, the adaptation in most of the cases is the
primary way to deal with it. People require being more explored and emphasized (Crate and Nuttall
2016).
Figure 1: “Climate Change Influencer: The Methane Release”
(Source: Insightmaker.com, 2017)

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Figure 2: “The Iceberg Model – Four Levels of Thinking”
(Source: Northwest Earth Institute, 2017)
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Figure 3: “CO2 in Atmosphere basic CLD Model”
(Source: Scientific American, 2017)
4. Present initiatives taken to address the problem in climate change:
From the system perspective the understanding of the anthropogenically driven changes in
global climate is complicated. The reason is that the integration of numerous conventional
independent sciences utilizing tools from the systems theory. They could be recognized and termed
as the global change science, climate change science and earth systems science (Stocker 2014).
Moreover, this has been considered the most effect approach widely. It has its roots on the general
systems theory. Just only with the science created on this foundation could create the knowledge of
interactions taking place among the living and non-living elements of the earth on the global scale.

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5. Conclusion:
The event of climate change has been a huge challenge for the earth. This has required large
scale actions by every level of business and government. However there have been various things
that could be done to decrease the energy consumptions and promote the choices of smart energy in
the communities. The reactions of this climate system globally towards the anthropogenic gas
emissions of greenhouse and the perturbations have been causing various effects. This includes the
social systems, economy, ecological. This could be understood only through the approach of
integrated system.

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Crate, S.A. and Nuttall, M. eds., 2016. Anthropology and climate change: from encounters to
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Scientific American. (2017). If carbon dioxide makes up only a minute portion of the atmosphere,
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Shine, K.P., 2014. Climate change.
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