My name is Andreina Urena, and I am a student in LaGuardia Community College. In this blog I am
responding to an assignment in my ENG 101 class and the purpose of this
assignment is to explain the science of climate change to an outsider from the
readings "The 'Anthropocene,'" by Paul J. Crutzer and Eugene F.
Stoermer and "The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change," by Naomi
Oreskes.
Many people may
ask themselves what climate change is and why other people like
Scientists or
writers are going crazy with this. Well, climate change is basically a change
in the weather where many systems are affected
because they are tied to climate, and it is
becoming a concern because it has local and
global impacts. According to the first
reading "the
'Anthropocene'" humans are the primary and one of the biggest responsible
for climate
change because thirty to fifty percent of land space had been utilized by
humans. For instance, human population has
tremendously expand, meaning that there is
a gigantic possibility that many of those
humans are contributing to climate change, even
when they are not
aware of what they are doing. In addiction, cattle production had
increased as well. Furthermore, nitrogen which
is a naturally occurring element
that is found in most living thing is being
used by agricultures as fertilizers. For someone
that is not informed about climate change may
say that it is okay to use this element, but
besides that it is working as a fertilizer,
this element is helping to climate change. In the
other hand, the second reading “The Scientific
consensus on Climate Change” the
members of the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate change (IPCC) stated that
greenhouse gasses are all over the earth due
to humans actions, and as a consequence
this gasses are making the ocean temperature
to raise which is harmful in so many ways.
Some of the reasons these gasses are all sparse
in the air is because of energy supply,
transportation,
agriculture, etc.. For instance to obtain electricity and heat, coal needs to
be burned, and we know that heat is a big source
of greenhouse gas emission. So, it is
understandable and at the same time people
should be conscious that climate change is
really happening and we, the people, are the
main contributors for this to be happening.
