Climate Change Opinion

by, Samantha

I honestly have no idea what is going to happen in the future although my opinion I think is is in favor of global warming. I know that some people think that the world is getting colder and others think that the earth is getting warmer (hence Global WARMING) but I don't know what is going to happen. My teacher, Mr. Holley, and the people around me formred the majority of my opinion because my reasearch for my project was not very good. Over spring break my father treaded lightly on the subject of climate change because my grandfather does not believe in climate change at all. My dad says, "the ice caps aren't melting because the earth is getting colder". I did some research on England (or United Kingdom) to see what could happen to them but agian there is some information to support both sides (just talk to Mr. Holley and he will give you but the cold and the warm theories for basically any place on earth). Here are the possiblities:

• England is going to be underwater (sea water rises and England is an island) due to global warming
• England is going to be frozen (they are on the same line of latitute as Siberia) due to global cooling
• England is it trouble (either one of the above supposes bad things for England) due to climate change
• England will be fine (everyone could be wrong and we are all going to be fine) (My grandpa would be right) we are not changing at all
• England is aware of their risks (they are taking actions to fix their situation by controlling the chemicals) this is true

It seems that more people support "Global Warming" and that information is probably easier to find and I think that Mr. Holley's lessons make global warming more believable. The greenhouse effect supports climate change but global warming specifically. 

(this is from the NASA site and can be found at  http://climate.nasa.gov/causes) 

NASA's website has a good amount of information about the greenhouse effect and global warming and they know about the ice caps melting. My opinion is still very unsure but trusted sources (such as my teacher and NASA) are pointing me towards a global warming idea apposed to global cooling. As for England some belive that England is going to flood to an extent and that makes sense to me. The Greenpeace UK is trying to help themselves by controlling light bulbs, transportation, and energies (coal and nuclear). Please do you your own research to determine your opinion and I apologize for any mistakes in information in my paper (I made one statistisal mistake I could have made another mistake too) or any issues with plagarisms or citing. (Please contact me with any consideres you have)

*Correction on my paper I said, "Humans also have contributed to global warming and it is believed that we have a 90% probability of increasing global warming." NASA says that it is "In its recently released Fourth Assessment Report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of 1,300 independent scientific experts from countries all over the world under the auspices of the United Nations, concluded there's a more than 90 percent probability that human activities over the past 250 years have warmed our planet."1 My wording was incorrect and too close to the original. The sentence in the paper was not a corecctly worded fact.

1. The Earth Science Communications Team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory / California Institute of Technology. "Causes." Global Climate Change. Ed. Amber

                             Jenkins. NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration, n.d. Web. 05 Apr. 2014. (the date is tenetative for first visit to the website)

Citations

"Climate Change: Sea Level Rises." BBC News. BBC, July 2009. Web. 07 Apr. 2014.

"England's Climate." England's Climate. England, 2012. Web. 07 Apr. 2014.

"It's Cold and My Car Is Buried in Snow. Is Global Warming Really Happening?" Union of Concerned Scientists. Union of Concerned Scientists, 3 Jan. 2014. Web. 07 Apr. 2014.

"What We Are Doing about Climate Change." Greenpeace UK. Greenpeace UK, n.d. Web. 07 Apr. 2014.

Demetriou, Danielle. "IPCC Climate Change Report: Britain Should 'get Used' to More Flooding and Storms." The Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group, 31 Mar. 2014. Web. 04 Apr. 2014.

Higgins, Wayne, David Herring, Ned Gardiner, and Mike Halpert. "The Facts About Snowstorms & Climate Change." NOAA. NOAA, n.d. Web. 07 Apr. 2014.

Howard, Brian Clark. "New Climate Change Report Warns of Dire Consequences." National Geographic. National Geographic Society, 31 Mar. 2014. Web. 06 Apr. 2014.

The Earth Science Communications Team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory / California Institute of Technology. "Causes." Global Climate Change. Ed. Amber                                                                   Jenkins. NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration, n.d. Web. 05 Apr. 2014.

Titus, Mandi. "Climate in Siberia, Russia." Travel Tips. USA Today, n.d. Web. 07 Apr. 2014.