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Keywords: Fossil Fuels, Climate Change, Arctic Ice, Carbon Dioxide (CO2), Carbon Emissions
Introduction
In the past decade, rising temperatures on planet Earth have caused scientists to believe
that the Earth might soon become a scorching hell, inhospitable to any form of life. This
phenomena of rising temperatures has been coined the name Climate Change. Although the
scientific community hasnt predominately if Climate Change is a natural or man-made effect.
Most of the evidence regarding the rise in temperatures however shows that human develop has
rapidly effected climate change negatively. This is largely in part due to how many of the
developed and undeveloped countries ran their very huge and complex economies. Another
enormous cause of this global crisis is societys constant and everlasting dependence on fossil
fuels such as natural gas, oil, and coal. The dependence on fossil fuels has forced more and more
CO2 molecules to appear in the atmosphere, ultimately increasing Greenhouse gases in the
atmosphere forcing the global temperature to increase as well. However, there are still some
scientist and individuals who believe that climate change is not an issue and perfectly normal for
the earth temperatures to rise. All in all, myth or reality climate change is an issue that stems
from our destructive use of non-renewable resources. This consumption of resources affect out
planets atmosphere ultimately warming our ecosystems and pushing them to the brink of
instability.
FACTORS OF CLIMATE CHANGE
Climate Change has been an issue that scientists have known about for years, decades,
and centuries. However the factors that led and still continue to power this phenomena have only
been brought into light in the last 50 years. Unfortunately, this factors have only accelerated
tremendously in the last 50 years. One major contributor to Climate Change as mentioned by
Jennifer Kent in her book Community Action and Climate Change is the interaction between
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