A New President Dissolves Global Warming

Feb - 01 2017 | By

Now that Donald J. Trump is President, it has come to my attention that suddenly global warming is no longer real!!

haha

Unfortunately for Mr. Trump, him claiming global warming untrue… does not, in fact, make it untrue. Turns out, global warming is still real. And that’s what i plan to talk to ya’ll about.

I have made my civic issues blog about the impact us humans have on the environment. And global warming is nothing short of a huge impact we as a species have burdened our planet with.

Many [ignorant] people claim that the earth’s temperature “naturally rises and falls. What is happening is completely natural!!11:))!!” Well. Half of that is true. Yes it is true that the Earth’s average temperature rises and falls throughout years and it is never stable, but the fact of global warming existing is that for the past few years/decades, the Earth’s temperature has been rising unnaturally fast. 

Since the Industrial Revolution, the Earth’s temperature has been on the rise… maybe because of human involvement and destruction of natural resources? (like coal, petroleum, production of methane (all of which are bad for the environment/ozone)) As pollution production rises, the ozone layer deteriorates, more ultra violet light enters our atmosphere, and this greenhouse effect created by so much Carbon Dioxide and other gases in the air results in the ultimate heat on Earth.

Bringing it home to good ol’ Pennsylvania in good ol’ Central PA in good ol’ State College itself, have any of you noticed how mild this year’s winter is? The first real snow was yesterday [Jan. 31 2017], some days the winter temperatures would reach an earth-shattering 40 degrees! (hint: that’s incredibly warm) back in grade school it was normal to experience 2-hour delays of school because the temperature wouldn’t rise above 0 degrees F. until 10am or later.

But enough of my own anecdotes, there’s some real truth to what I’m saying.

Here’s some fun facts about global warming and its impact and how we’ve caused this.

  1. Since 1880, the average temperature has risen by 1.4-Fahrenheit degrees. Let me tell you, that is a lot considering an average temperature rise of 2 degrees-F can be detrimental to every part of life on Earth, we’re not far off. When was the Industrial Revolution? Answer: 1760-1840
  2. The Arctic ice is melting rapidly. By 2040 the region is expected to have a completely ice free summer, or even earlier. Fact: the Arctic is not supposed to melt away during summer. or at any time. notice how ice caps are always on globes. because they’re always there. (:
  3. Due to global warming and pollution, coral reefs are suffering the worst bleaching with the highest dying record since 1980. Bad because: coral reefs are living creatures and it sucks they are dying. They take centuries to regrow. They provide food and shelter for hundreds of species of marine life– which are also dying because their food and shelter is dying. They provide natural weather barriers for lands on the coast to keep them safe from hurricanes and tsunamis– natural disasters will be even more disastrous without the coral reef’s protection. They are dying because the water to too acidic and warm for them to survive.
  4. More than 1 million species have become extinct due to disappearing habitats, ecosystems acidic oceans all caused due to global warming. Maybe we’re next, dude, so that the earth can live again.
  5. The addition of such greenhouse gases is responsible for large scale deaths due to asthma and other respiratory diseases. Hey, maybe #4 will come true since we’re essentially killing ourselves off. 🙂

These aren’t the only problems. All five of these facts (minus my commentating) were found on a site dedicated to educate people about global warming. There are 30 more facts on the page I have cited alone. This isn’t a problem we can just claim doesn’t exist based on a conservative belief. It is real and seen every single day.

My passion blog also relates to our destructive human impact on the environment and you can discover all the animals we have caused to endanger as I continue to write about them all at sites.psu.edu/chatangki (:

This blog will continue to delve into other human impacts on the environment, many of them link back to global warming. One can’t believe in rain acidity and high methane levels in the air without also agreeing that global warming is real.

I hope this caused you some distress.

That’s my goal.

(:

Sources:

35 Surprising Facts About Global Warming

knowledge from my AP Environmental Science class; Living in the Environment  by G. Tyler Miller & Scott E. Spoolman –> https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8pig2KdTaOBNDVMOWYwMndXVlE/view

That textbook took about 8 minutes to find.

1 Comment

  1. bzv2 says:

    I love how right off the bat your sarcasm and funny nature shines through. I think for these civic issues blogs however your blog should be a bit more formal for this assignment. Aside from your introduction I think that the blog post was solid and your facts were super interesting. So interesting in fact that I took the time to go and look up global warming myself because why the hell not. To be honest I know that global warming is a thing and the basic summary of what it is however I am not aware of the details (part of why I looked up more facts). Here’s my simple definition of global warming (and yes I too believe it is a real thing). According to the NRDC Over the past 50 years, the average global temperature has increased at the fastest rate in recorded history Experts see the trend is accelerating: All but one of the 16 hottest years in NASA’s 134-year record have occurred since 2000 which leads me to believe that it is a relatively recent phenomenon. Apparently, global warming occurs when carbon dioxide (CO2) and other air pollutants and greenhouse gasses collect in the atmosphere and absorb sunlight and solar radiation that have bounced off the earth’s surface. Normally, this radiation would escape into space and trap the heat and cause the planet to get hotter causing something we call the greenhouse effect.

    In your blog you just state facts but don’t really explain your stance nor do you really tell us a solution to the problem. I think that the blog post itself is super informative however I feel like there could have been much more added to make it a better version. This being said this was a really interesting blog post and topic and I am curious to see how you relate this topic to another staying within the general genre. Keep up the good work and the great sarcasm.

    Source:

    https://www.nrdc.org/stories/global-warming-101



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