Summer Post #2

The ongoing debate on whether climate change is an actual issue, surprisingly, still reoccurring to this day. People refuse to either believe it is happening or take responsibility for it. The reasons for that are fear, lack of information, misinformation and stubbornness. Faith also often plays a role on how people perceive global change, claiming that since their scriptures do not discuss the possibility of the world “ending” due to these reasons or in this time frame, there is no such thing as global warming. Considering the human sciences, this raises the question of whether or not humans are responsible for the downfall of earth. The human sciences are suitable for this real life situation as it tracks the development and actions of humans over time. It looks at the economy and how the earth has been affected by our actions. There has been extensive proof that the over use of fossil fuels such as oil, harmful gases, coal and overproduction of products that use those resources to function or exist are the main cause of global warming, thus “natural” disasters taking place more frequently and caused by humanities actions. It has been established that the cause of climate change is at the root of the "greenhouse effect" which is the warming that results when the atmosphere traps heat radiating from Earth toward space. Certain gases in the atmosphere block heat from escaping. Possibilities of saving the earth are either limited, unknown or not followed through as strictly as they should be. The sudden change in temperatures is causing water to heat up which then creates tornadoes and storms. The glaciers in the western Antarctic, further affected by the warmer seas, were collapsing, and their disappearance “now appears to be unstoppable.” The melting of these great ice sheets would make seas rise by at least four feet—ultimately, possibly 12—more than enough to flood cities from New York to Tokyo to Mumbai. There are unnatural changes of countries becoming increasingly hotter over the years and they can be directly tracked back to human action.