Climate Change: Truth or Myth.

Everybody is facing climate change. It has many effects such us the contamination of the air and
the water, the pollution, the animal extinction and others. However, people continue doing the
same activities that are destroying our world due to they are blind to the effects and the climate
change that we are subsisting and they dare to believe that is myth. This essay will demonstrate
that climate change is a reality and not myth.

The Earth's climate has changed throughout history due to the industrial activities, which have
raised atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. Human-produced greenhouse gases such as methane
and nitrous oxide have caused much of the observed increase in Earth's temperatures over the
past 50 years.

Ninety-seven percent of climate scientists agree that climate-warming trends over the past
century are very likely because of human activities. (Scientific consensus. 2013. NASA). The
current warming trend is increasing because human activities are producing compounds that are
killing the world.

We could observe evidence for climate change in the sea level rise of 17 centimeters in the last
century, the global temperature rise, and the warming oceans. The Greenland and Antarctic ice
sheets because they are the ones that have decreased in mass, the declining Artic sea ice, the
glacial retreat (including the Alps, Himalayas, Andes, Rockies, Alaska and Africa), the ocean
acidification as a result of humans emitting more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, the
decreased snow cover and the extreme events.

To conclude, Global climate change has observable effects on the environment. Glaciers have
shrunk, ice on rivers and lakes is breaking up earlier, plant and animal have shifted and trees are
flowering sooner. People cannot continue doing the same activities and justifying their actions
believing that what is in front of their eyes is just a myth.

References.

http://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/indicators/
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/news/20100121/
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/ 01apr_deepsolarminimum.htm
http://climate.nasa.gov/causes/

Laura Ruiz Tellez.