Climate Crisis
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Climate crisis is a crucial issue for the contemporary generation. Scientists are trying to show the reality of climate changes that should be a concern of every single person. The main purpose of the project is to understand the role of various factors that are causing the climate crisis. This is crucial to understand for improving life quality. The project focused on various factors like greenhouse gases, burning fossils and coal, forests cutting down, and the role of methane for the result. By analyzing these factors, it can be concluded that factors affecting the temperature of the earth, which are leading towards global warming. The change in temperature is also resulting in difficulties for the survival of animals and plants. Besides, human life is high on risk, therefore, policies and projects should be provided to cope with the issue.
Climate Crisis
Climate crisis is one of the crucial issues in contemporary time. Temperature is increasing globally and glaciers are melting which is resulting in high flood throughout the entire world. According to NASA, the average global temperature of the entire world has increased at an alarming rate in the past 50 years. Ninety-seven per cent of the climate scientists identify that in the recent few decades, human-induced activities are contributing to climate change. The main purpose of the paper is to analyze the issue of climate crisis due to factors like greenhouse gases, burning fossils and coal, forests cutting down, and the role of methane. It is crucial to understand the consequences of the climate crisis on contemporary and future generations. In addition, it will be helpful to illustrate the solution to the issue ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"katWCLiG","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Archer & Rahmstorf, 2010)","plainCitation":"(Archer & Rahmstorf, 2010)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":862,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/rVaVAHaF/items/764VAC88"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/rVaVAHaF/items/764VAC88"],"itemData":{"id":862,"type":"book","title":"The Climate Crisis: An Introductory Guide to Climate Change","publisher":"Cambridge University Press","number-of-pages":"261","source":"Google Books","abstract":"An incredible wealth of scientific data on global warming has been collected in the last few decades. The history of the Earth's climate has been probed by drilling into polar ice sheets and sediment layers of the oceans' vast depths, and great advances have been made in computer modeling of our climate. This book provides a concise and accessible overview of what we know about ongoing climate change and its impacts, and what we can do to confront the climate crisis. Using clear and simple graphics in full color, it lucidly highlights information contained in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports, and brings the subject completely up-to-date with current science and policy. The book makes essential scientific information on this critical topic accessible to a broad audience. Obtaining sound information is the first step in preventing a serious, long-lasting degradation of our planet's climate, helping to ensure our future survival.","ISBN":"978-0-521-40744-1","note":"Google-Books-ID: CH5V1Bq9ZnQC","shortTitle":"The Climate Crisis","language":"en","author":[{"family":"Archer","given":"David"},{"family":"Rahmstorf","given":"Stefan"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2010"]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Archer & Rahmstorf, 2010).
After the world moving from agriculture to the industrial revolution, individuals are exceptionally using fossil fuels as a source of energy. Obtained energy is used to utilize for a number of reasons like electricity, transportation, and industries. Extreme fossil fuel burning is resulting in the emission of carbon dioxide which is the leading world towards global warming. The percentage of carbon dioxide in the air has been increased rapidly after industrialization, from 280 ppm to 360 ppm ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"a07HehKH","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Toniuc & Groza, 2017)","plainCitation":"(Toniuc & Groza, 2017)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":870,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/rVaVAHaF/items/HK5VWMDW"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/rVaVAHaF/items/HK5VWMDW"],"itemData":{"id":870,"type":"paper-conference","title":"Climebot: An argumentative agent for climate change","container-title":"2017 13th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing (ICCP)","page":"63-70","source":"IEEE Xplore","event":"2017 13th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing (ICCP)","abstract":"While climate experts have agreed that global warming is real, this consensus has not reached all the society levels. Our aim is to develop a conversational agent able to explain issues related to global warming. The developed chatbot relies on textual entailment to identify the best answer for a statement conveyed by a human agent. To enhance the conversational capabilities we employed the technical instrumentation provided by the API.AI framework. To exploit domain knowledge, the agent uses climate change ontologies converted into a adequate format for the API.AI model. Hence, we developed a Climebot, that is an argumentative agent for climate change based on ontologies and textual entailment.","DOI":"10.1109/ICCP.2017.8116984","shortTitle":"Climebot","author":[{"family":"Toniuc","given":"Daniel"},{"family":"Groza","given":"Adrian"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2017",9]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Toniuc & Groza, 2017). In addition, the emission of methane from cows is also contributing to global warming. However, various researchers believed that climate change is a natural process, and people cannot do anything for it. However, various reports indicate that carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuel and the emission of methane from cows are the factors causing climate change.
Rapid melting of glaciers is happening because of the warm atmosphere in various parts of the world. Because of the melting of glaciers, water is building up in the oceans. After the industrial revolution, the temperature of the entire world has raised by carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. The life of aquatic animals is in danger. Due to pollution and temperature effect, species of various animals are dying. Researchers indicate that carbon dioxide is released when coal or oil is burned. Emitted carbon gases get mixed in the atmosphere and start observing heat from the sun. This entire process of carbon emission causes global warming and climate crisis ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"Bev7fxa0","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Goodman, 2009)","plainCitation":"(Goodman, 2009)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":867,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/rVaVAHaF/items/YQAECD54"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/rVaVAHaF/items/YQAECD54"],"itemData":{"id":867,"type":"article-journal","title":"From Global Justice to Climate Justice? Justice Ecologism in an Era of Global Warming","container-title":"New Political Science","page":"499-514","volume":"31","issue":"4","source":"Taylor and Francis+NEJM","abstract":"Justice globalism, as an ideological field, emerged to prominence from 2001 with the World Social Forum. It has offered powerful responses to market globalism, grounding alternatives as well as refusals. With the intensification of global warming, the question of climate justice is increasingly subsuming issues of global justice. Climate justice offers a distinct trajectory, with its own dilemmas and potentials. The article addresses these differences along six axes: scope, discourse, space, strategy, temporality, and agency. It is argued that climate justice is a totalising concern, that is scientifically measurable, that creates new leverage for late industrialisers, requires a proactive strategy, within a limited temporal horizon, embedded within an all-encompassing and radically challenging epistemology. As such climate justice addresses some of the limitations of global justice, while creating problems of its own. It is argued that emerging dynamics of climate justice are pre-figuring paradigmatic transition, forcing broad-scale transformations in the terms of political contestation.","DOI":"10.1080/07393140903322570","ISSN":"0739-3148","shortTitle":"From Global Justice to Climate Justice?","author":[{"family":"Goodman","given":"James"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2009",12,1]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Goodman, 2009). Carbon sequestration is the process of capturing carbon gas and storing it into a reservoir. Forests and trees act as a carbon sink because they release oxygen and absorb carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
People believe that humans are eating beef since prehistoric times, so it is not possible that the raising of livestock contributes to global warming and climate change. Human-induced changes are responsible for global warming and climate change. Approximately 20 per cent of global warming is attributed to methane ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"tYbQf5DA","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Weintrobe, 2019)","plainCitation":"(Weintrobe, 2019)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":864,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/rVaVAHaF/items/UR5U49ZJ"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/rVaVAHaF/items/UR5U49ZJ"],"itemData":{"id":864,"type":"webpage","title":"The Climate Crisis","container-title":"Routledge Handbook of Psychoanalytic Political Theory","abstract":"Care’s qualities are vitally needed to address the environmental and social crises we face. This chapter argues that neoliberalism has","URL":"https://www.taylorfrancis.com/","note":"DOI: 10.4324/9781315524771-34","language":"en","author":[{"family":"Weintrobe","given":"Sally"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2019",9,5]]},"accessed":{"date-parts":[["2019",10,26]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Weintrobe, 2019). Odds of worsening drought have been increased due to climate change in major portions of the world. Intense drought and rainfall in different regions of the world are clear indications that the climate is changing dramatically.
Human-induced activities like deforestation, aerosol releases, and land alterations are also contributing to climate change. In recent few decades, deforestation has increased to provide space for residents. Excessive deforestation is the second major factor causing the climate crisis. The process of deforestation can be seen in various forms like livestock ranching, clear-cutting of agriculture, and wildfire. Mankind is cutting down forests with such speed that earth is unable replace which causes disasters like floods. Excessive flooding is resulting in high water collection in rivers and sea along with damaging human property. In addition, the life of wild animals and birds is decreasing as they are losing a place to live. They are forced to move to another jungle or forest and while migrating to other places, a vast number of deaths in animals and birds are recorded. Therefore, deforestation is dangerous for every living thing present in the world.
Governments of different nations are trying to develop strategies, policies, and technologies that can keep greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere. Although the natural process of carbon sequestration is radically decreased by human-induced activities, however, there is a need to introduce some artificial processes to trap carbon dioxide in the atmosphere ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"pXBtoV7f","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Wara, 2007)","plainCitation":"(Wara, 2007)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":865,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/rVaVAHaF/items/QHIM6EW2"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/rVaVAHaF/items/QHIM6EW2"],"itemData":{"id":865,"type":"article-journal","title":"Is the global carbon market working?","container-title":"Nature","page":"595-596","volume":"445","issue":"7128","source":"www.nature.com","abstract":"The first volume of Climate Change 2007, the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), was published on 2 February. In a Special Report Nature's news team sums up the document's main conclusions and assesses initial reactions to it. Two related Commentaries look at some practical steps being taken in response to climate change.","DOI":"10.1038/445595a","ISSN":"1476-4687","journalAbbreviation":"Nature","language":"en","author":[{"family":"Wara","given":"Michael"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2007",2]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Wara, 2007). Sustainability is one of the major projects in contemporary time. People are promoting sustainability to produce more greenery and material which can cause the least impact on the atmosphere. This is the best solution as it not only helps to control carbon dioxide, methane, and other dangerous gases but also retains the natural beauty of the world. In addition, sustainability improves the quality of industries and reduces issues like an increase in waste material and water pollution. However, individuals should understand the fact that carbon particles have heat-absorbing qualities more than any other major gases present in the air; therefore, these carbon particles can warm the entire atmosphere rapidly. The characteristics of carbon dioxide allow it to remain in the air for longer than the other greenhouse gases ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"D0ZgwR2B","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Huntington, Quakenbush, & Nelson, 2017)","plainCitation":"(Huntington, Quakenbush, & Nelson, 2017)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":874,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/rVaVAHaF/items/6YUVC4M6"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/rVaVAHaF/items/6YUVC4M6"],"itemData":{"id":874,"type":"article-journal","title":"Evaluating the Effects of Climate Change on Indigenous Marine Mammal Hunting in Northern and Western Alaska Using Traditional Knowledge","container-title":"Frontiers in Marine Science","volume":"4","source":"Frontiers","abstract":"Iñupiaq, Yup’ik, and Cup’ik hunters in 14 Alaska Native communities described a rapidly changing marine environment in qualitative traditional knowledge interviews conducted over the course of a decade with 110 individuals. Based on their observations, sea ice conditions are the most notable change, with later freeze-up, thinner and less reliable ice, and earlier and more rapid break-up. Marine mammal populations in northern and western Alaska have been affected by changes in the physical environment, with alterations to migratory timing and routes, distribution, abundance, health, and behavior. Despite these changes, marine mammal populations in the region remain generally healthy and abundant. For hunters, access is the biggest challenge posed by changing conditions. Sea ice is less safe for travel, particularly for more southerly communities, making hunting more dangerous or impossible. Rapid break-up has reduced the time available for hunting amid broken ice in spring, formerly a dependable and preferred season. Social change also affects the ways in which hunting patterns change. Increased industrial development, for example, can also alter marine mammal distribution and reduce hunting opportunity. Reduced use of animal skins for clothing and other purposes has reduced demand. More powerful and reliable engines make day trips easier, reducing the time spent camping. An essential component of adjustment and adaptation to changing conditions is the retention of traditional values and the acquisition of new information to supplement traditional knowledge. Our findings are consistent with, and add detail to, what is known from previous traditional knowledge and scientific studies. The ways in which hunters gather new information and incorporate it into their existing understanding of the marine environment deserves further attention, both as a means of monitoring change and as a key aspect of adaptation. While the changes to date have been largely manageable, future prospects are unclear, as the effects of climate change are expected to continue in the region, and ecological change may accelerate. Social and regulatory change will continue to play a role in fostering or constraining the ability of hunters to adapt to the effects of climate change.","URL":"https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2017.00319/full","DOI":"10.3389/fmars.2017.00319","ISSN":"2296-7745","journalAbbreviation":"Front. Mar. Sci.","language":"English","author":[{"family":"Huntington","given":"Henry P."},{"family":"Quakenbush","given":"Lori T."},{"family":"Nelson","given":"Mark"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2017"]]},"accessed":{"date-parts":[["2019",10,26]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Huntington, Quakenbush, & Nelson, 2017).
By analyzing various factors and their impact it can be concluded that human-induced activities are highly responsible for increased warming in the entire world. To increase production, oil and coal are excessively used by the producers to acquire energy for running turbines and other plants. The transportation industry is also using fossil fuels to process. Because of such excessive use of fossil fuels, the temperature of the entire world is increasing rapidly which is leading to the climate crisis. Glaciers are rapidly melting because of high temperature, and it is responsible for high sea levels and floods. The high heat-absorbing power of carbon dioxide is a major reason behind global warming. The emission of methane from cows and other livestock also contributes to global warming and climate change.
Changes in the frequency of extreme weather conditions and rainfall patterns can be minimized if humans switch from fossil fuel to another alternative source to get energy. It can be possible with the help of renewable energy resources such as sun and wind. Use of solar and wind energy to run industries and to make electricity is effective to minimize the prevalence of global warming. Furthermore, it will also be effective if humans switch from beef to meat. Lastly, sustainability is the hope for the contemporary world to control various factors that are causing the climate crisis.
References
ADDIN ZOTERO_BIBL {"uncited":[],"omitted":[],"custom":[]} CSL_BIBLIOGRAPHY Archer, D., & Rahmstorf, S. (2010). The Climate Crisis: An Introductory Guide to Climate Change. Cambridge University Press.
Goodman, J. (2009). From Global Justice to Climate Justice? Justice Ecologism in an Era of Global Warming. New Political Science, 31(4), 499–514. https://doi.org/10.1080/07393140903322570
Huntington, H. P., Quakenbush, L. T., & Nelson, M. (2017). Evaluating the Effects of Climate Change on Indigenous Marine Mammal Hunting in Northern and Western Alaska Using Traditional Knowledge. Frontiers in Marine Science, 4. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2017.00319
Toniuc, D., & Groza, A. (2017). Climebot: An argumentative agent for climate change. 2017 13th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing (ICCP), 63–70. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCP.2017.8116984
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Weintrobe, S. (2019, September 5). The Climate Crisis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315524771-34
