The Pros And Cons Of Climate Change

Earthquakes, tornados, tsunamis, and terrorist attacks are all events which put nations in danger of a potential national crisis. Today’s constant change in climate causes odd, eccentric weather patterns. For example, Kansas may be seventy degrees on Monday, then on Tuesday it could be snowing. These immediate pattern changes can be linked back to the beginning of climate change. Climate change meets the definition of a global crisis because a global crisis is a significant or radical change in the state of the world. According to Dictionary.com, a crisis is “a stage in a sequence of events at which the trend of all future events, especially for better or for worse is determined; turning point,” (Crisis). Stemming from this general definition,

One of the infamous advocates for climate change being a fake issue is the United States’ president Donald Trump. Trump makes his opinion clear on his twitter by tweeting several tweets like this, “The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make the U.S. manufacturing non-competitive,” “Give me clean, beautiful and healthy air – not the same old climate change (global warming) bullshit! I am tired of hearing this nonsense,” and “NBC News just called it the great freeze – coldest weather in years. Is our country still spending money on the GLOBAL WARMING HOAX?” (Harrington). Recently, Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency questioned the harm of the climate increasing in temperature. He backed up his argument by referring to early human civilizations and how they prospered in warming trends (Biesecker and Borenstein). While many skeptics pose probable arguments, scientists almost always disprove the skeptics arguments with facts about the effects of climate change and global

Glaciers and icecaps are melting, sea levels are rising, and species all around the world are being impacted by this issue (What is). Animals are being overwhelmed with these changing temperatures because unlike a few decades ago, the climate is changing at a more rapid pace which may not give all species the time to adapt. The Great Barrier Reef dying off is a prime example of the effects on sea temperature increase. Climate change is one of the factors for roughly fifty percent of the reef to be bleached (Howard). This is detrimental to all the species living in and around the reef, but also to the country of Australia. The reef dying completely would cause a negative spike in Australia’s economy because the reef rakes in approximately three billion dollars annually for the country (Howard). Climate change and global warming effects species, humans, and even the