Climate Change: Impacts, Outcomes, and Australia's Challenges

This report examines the multifaceted impacts of climate change, focusing on its effects on the environment and Australia. It explores rising atmospheric carbon dioxide levels due to fossil fuel use, global warming, and the resulting environmental changes. The assessment delves into various viewpoints from different authors on the effects of climate change, including discussions on rising temperatures, melting glaciers, and impacts on wildlife. It highlights potential outcomes such as rising sea levels, altered ecosystems, and challenges to human health and resources. The report also specifically addresses the problems Australia faces due to climate change, emphasizing the impacts on its ecosystems and native species. The report concludes by summarizing the key findings and the urgency of addressing climate change, emphasizing the need for effective management strategies to mitigate its effects.

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Sustainability and Development

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Introduction
The change in the global or regional climate patterns affects the overall environment by
increasing the levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide that is produced by fossil fuels. The Earth's
climate has been changing from the last few years and affects the overall factor related to human
actions and it promotes the intense space (Guo, et al., 2015). The massive use of fossil fuel
releases a large amount of carbon dioxide in the overall atmosphere. This assessment includes
several arguments regarding the effects of climate change in the overall atmosphere and the
negative impacts of the changes on the future life of the earth. The report includes the various
aspects related to climate change which largely affects the overall environment by increasing the
temperature and carbon dioxide.
The various views regarding climate change will be also discussed in this assessment. Every
author gives different reviews regarding the effects of climate change so the argument among the
different authors will be described in the assessment. There are various issues and potential
outcomes related to climate change that will occur in the overall environment of the society.
These potential outcomes of climate change will be discussed in this report. Australian country
faces several problems related to the effects of climate change as climate change impacts the
overall country and the environment of the country. This is a critical issue in Australia and it
directly impacts the overall conditions of the particular country.

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Reliable literature regarding climate change
According to the Bowles, et al., (2014), the climate change provides several effects to the
environment and it runs very fast and changes are not natural in the overall process of the
environment. The major changes are seen in the rising of temperature and the levels of CO2 over
the last 100,000 years. The climate change ad Co2 variation is closely related to each other as
they largely impact the overall environment in a great manner. The major reasons for changing
the climate relates to the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. The overall industrial
revolution, the species has been running immense amounts of fossil fuel to support the ever-
growing demand for energy. The major factor of affecting climate is the emission of Co2. The
use of fossil fuels, the industrial revolution, agriculture process and deforestation create several
changes in the climate.
Source: (climatereality, 2015).

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As per the Tranter and Booth, (2015), the climate changes are one of the essential problem faced
by the environment and create several problems for the common people of Australia. The
emission of CO2 creates a higher level of changes in the climate and it makes the overall
environment polluted. CO2 is the main factor that affects the climate. Living beings face many
problems in the overall environment occurred due to climate changes. Due to the problem of the
changes in climate, the migration of people gets increased and it affects the environment of the
country.
As per the Pearce, et al., (2018), climate change gives long term effects on the environment.
Global warming is a major factor that changes the climate by increasing the temperature of the
environment. Climate change becomes a critical issue in Australia from the beginning of the 21st
century. Australia becomes hotter day by day due to the increase in temperature that creates
many side effects in the life of the common people. The people of Australia experience extreme
heat due to the change of climate. There are several impacts of the climate change which are like
the Ice is melting in the worldwide mainly at the poles of the Earth. The glaciers are
continuously melting due to global warming and create changes in the climate in the
environment of all over the world. The rising temperatures affect wildlife and their habitats. The
several species are also affected by climate change.
Source: (theconservation, 2017).

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The sea levels are rising and oceans are becoming warmer. The climate change greatly affected
the overall species and human beings of Australia as the environment becomes polluted due to
the several processes of climate change. The climate change creates a fundamental threat to the
place, species and people's livelihood. The management of climate change helps to reduce
several pollutions like carbon pollution and also manages the consequences of global warming.
For managing the process of climate change, it is required to help people and nature for the
proper process related to the changing of climate (Anwar, et al., 2015). The emission of the fuels
is a major part of creating several changes in the climate that gives various bad effects on the
overall environment.
Source: (climatechangeinaustralia, 2018).

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Comparison of different kinds of literature
This section of the report includes a different comparison among the author reviews regarding
the impact of climate changes in the environment. The several arguments regarding the
theoretical perspectives are included in this section. It has been analyzed that different authors
give different views regarding climate change and these perspectives create several problems in
the overall research related to climate change. As climate change is one of the biggest problems
in today's environment which affect the health of the people and also the lifestyle of living
beings. The several arguments are included in this section that involves the several reviews of
authors and their differences that create arguments among them regarding their reviews of
climate change. This comparison is based on literature related to climate change.
The one author clarifies that the climate changes created by Co2 and the increase of carbon
dioxide create many problems in the overall environment and affect the health of the people. The
major reason of climate changes is the emission of fossil fuels, emission of greenhouse gases and
the increasing of the carbon dioxide in the overall environment (Kahan, et al., 2012). The author
describes that the future life of Earth is greatly affected due to climate changes. The Earth goes
in danger due to the changes occurred in climate.
The other author clarifies that the major reason of changes occurred in climate is due to the
increase in the temperature of the overall environment and this rising in temperature creates
global warming in the environment and this is the major reason for the changes in climate
(Avineri, 2012). The temperature increasing creates drastic changes in the climate and impacts
the overall environment in a great manner. The reviews of authors are based on the different
aspects due to which the climate changes and the impacts of the climate change that create many
problems in the overall environment. The author defines the several reviews regarding the
climate change related to the rise in temperature as the rising of temperature is occurred due to
the global warming that makes the glaciers melting and create negative impacts in the overall
environment.
The author suggests that climate change greatly impacts the overall environment and occurred
many problems for the people living in Australia and also create many diseases among the
people. The author says that climate change also includes several ethics and a great challenge to

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ethical action (Shrestha, et al., 2017). The main challenge is related to the current emissions that
create intergenerational effects. This creates the proper argument as the other author does not
such information regarding the challenges and ethics related to climate change. The different
authors have different views regarding the ethics related to climate change. The ethics related to
climate change are also included in the process of justice and several laws.
The other author clarifies that the ethics are not as much important in the overall process and the
laws are not involved in the process of climate change. As the process of climate change occurs
due to the natural storms and practices which cannot be related to ethics.

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Potential outcomes and issues occurred due to climate change
The major impact of climate change has been seen on global warming. There are many other
impacts has been seen due to the climatic change such as rising the sea levels, melting of the ice
sheets and the glaciers, temperature increase due to stratification, etc. Due to the increasing
global warming, adverse potential outcomes result in the health of the human including the
respiratory diseases, diarrhea diseases, cardiovascular, etc. (McCright, et al., 2016). The major
outcomes of the change in climate have been seen in the greenhouse gas, sots and aerosols and
the land-use changes.
Due to climate change, people are suffering from food and water supplies, they are having
adverse health outcomes. Agriculture is getting affected by climate change as they directly
contribute to the greenhouse effects. As the population is increasing so the number of trees is
also cutting so the major reason and issue behind the increasing change in the climate is the
deforestation also (Corner, et al., 2014). People use to plant the trees to make the changes less
but instead, they are cutting the trees for their welfare and infrastructure.
The heat-trapping gases are increasing due to the climate changes and this will harm the future
generation. Temperature is continued to rise and varying climate will cause many issues. The
ecosystem, agriculture and human beings are getting affected with the increasing frost-free
season. The heat waves and droughts are more which also causes a rise in the temperature and
affects the hurricanes (Corner, et al., 2014).
Australia faces many problems occurred due to climate change and it gives drastic effects on the
ecosystems of Australia. Mainly the natural ecosystem of Australia is affected by the overall
process of climate change. The temperature of Australia is increasing day by day and it affects
the native species of the country. The geographic range of overall species is impacted by the
overall process of climate change (Pitman, et al., 2015). The ecosystem is greatly impacted by
climate change as they have limited capacity to manage multiple pressures as compared to
human systems. The main potential outcomes are related to the effects in the natural ecosystems,
lack of water resources, create risk in the overall resources of the basic needs. The coastal
communities are greatly impacted by climate change in Australia. The rising of temperature
creates intense storm winds along with the tropical cyclones.

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Conclusion
This report deals with the effects created by climate changes and the proper review regarding the
topic of climate change. Climate change is one of the major topics that affect the overall
population of Australia and the overall environment of a particular country. The discussion of
the several problems related to climate change has been described in the report. Several reviews
of authors have been discussed in this assessment. The overall assessment based on the changes
occurred in the climate from the last few years. The discussion of the causes and effects of
climate changes has been discussed in this report.
This assessment declares that Australia faces several problems occurred due to the climate
change and this has been discussed in this assessment. The above information includes the
different views of various authors related to climate change and detailed information regarding
the impact of climate change in Australia. By the arguments among the authors, various
information regarding the impact of climate change has been achieved. Australia faces several
issues in the proper management of climate change as the climate change disturbed all the
ecosystems of the country that create several problems. The societies of Australia gets affected
by the change in the climate.

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