Jana Marie L.

Mercolita STEM 12

The Climate Change

The human seeks everything to get what they want for their own cause. Others are destroying their own life for
the money that they greed of. Human are not contented of the things that they have, it is always less and not
knowing what are the prizes if they do something from it like, cutting the trees for business, industries, political,
and farm land purposes for the cause of the people’s economy and food supply and the result of lost of habitat,
and extinction of some animals. Dynamite, muro ami, and overfishing to fed overpopulated people. Not properly
disposed toxic and licking chemical wastes to the seas causing new type of virus and decease, and massive fish kill.
Toxic smoke from industrial plant and power plants causing of carbon footprint to rapidly raise that polluting the
air and destroying our ozone’s atmosphere and the result of global warming, long seasonal drought and rains, and
stronger cyclones.

What is Climate Change? The climate change is the change in the usual weather found in a place. This could be a
change in how much rain a place usually gets in a year. Or it could be a change in a place usual temperature for a
month or a season (NASA 2017). Our climate now is not like the climate of our Grandparents before, our climate is
more unpredictable this days. According to National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), “Human
activities are changing the natural greenhouse. Over the last century the burning of fossil fuels like coal and oil has
increase the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). This happens because the coal or oil burning
process combines carbon with oxygen in the air to make CO2. To a lesser extent, the clearing of land for
agriculture, industry, and other human activities has increased concentration of green house gases”. NASA states
also that stronger greenhouse effect will warm the oceans and partially melt glaciers and other ice, increasing sea
level. Ocean water also will expand if it warms, contributing further to sea rise. Warmer condition will lead to more
evaporation and precipitation overall, but individual regions will vary wetter and others dryer”.

In our country, we are more affected and suffering from the climate change. The long drought and strong typhoon
are the examples of inconvenient truth of climate change here in our country. And sad to say, the change of the
climate will continue through this century and beyond, and temperature will continue to rise. According to the
International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), “global climate will change beyond the next few decades depends
primarily on the amount of heat-trapping gases emitted globally, and how sensitive the Earth’s climate is to those
emissions. Because human-induced warmer is superimposed on a naturally varying climate, the temperature rise
has not been, and will not be, uniform or smooth across the country or over time”. The Earth’s average
temperature has increased about 2 degrees Fahrenheit during the 20 th century (NASA). The global sea level has
risen according to NASA, “sea level rise by 8 inches since reliable record keeping began in 1880”. The NASA
projected the sea to rise by 1 to 4 feet in 2100. This is the result of added water from melting land ice and the
expansion of seawater as it warms. In next several decades, IPCC states that storm surge and high tides could
combine with sea level rise and land subsidence to further increase flooding in many country.

Climate change is the one of the serious and most complex issues facing us today. It involves many dimensions in
our life and in science, economic, society, political principles. Even if we stopped emitting all the greenhouse
gasses today, global warming and climate change will continue to affect our future generation. But we can reduce
the rapid rise of the climate change by using renewable source of energy, planting trees, and reduce the uses of
fossil fuel like coal and oil. We need to open our eyes and see the inconvenient truth of what are really happening
to our planet earth. Because when the time comes that we are all blind to something, we will be facing the price
that we cannot pay to Mother Nature.