Blog Assignment #3 (Revision of my second
blog)
Hello, everyone, my name is Junmin
Li (Vince). I am taking ENG101 now, and
this is my third blog assignment. Thank you
for reading.
According to the comment an ENG202 student Evalise Salas gave to me in my second blog, I
need to organize my evidences. She said
my blog did not have “cohesiveness” because there was no connection
between my evidences. As a person who
had not seen this kind of information, she did not clearly know what I was
talking about. She suggested that I should
“stick” my evidences together by explaining the relation between these
evidences. I am so appreciated that she
gave me so many important opinions which can really improve my writing. Thank you, Evalise Salas!
Hi, my dear readers. This is Vince who
is now taking ENG101 class in LaGuardia Community College. In this blog,
I am going tell my readers how human activities affect the climate change by
using the scientific information and evidence I have got from “The Scientific
Consensus on Climate Change” and “The Anthropocene” (from “The Global Warming
Reader”).
According to “The Scientific Consensus on
Climate Change” written by Naomi Oreskes in 2004, the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change (IPCC) announced that human activities, like increasing
producing greenhouse gas has made an influence of the climate change. It
was agreed by many scientists and some of them also did some research to prove
it. Although it was not certain that must happen, it was better for human
to be noticed. In “The Anthropocene” (2000), Paul J. Crutzen and Eugene
F. Stoermer emphasize that the earth was edited by human activities.
Human release some substances that can harm environment and those substances
cause damages in the earth, like “zone hole”.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
reported but the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) clearly
expressed that warming over the last 50 years might be related to the
increasing of greenhouse gases. They
showed that the earth’s temperature followed the quantity of greenhouse going
up. Similarly, the National Academy of
Sciences report, Climate Change Science: An Analysis of Some Key Questions said
that greenhouse gases which were produced by human activities caused surface
air temperatures and subsurface ocean temperatures became higher. Furthermore,
the American Meteorological Society, the American Association for the
Advancement of Science (AAAS) stated the evidence which proved human activities
effecting climate was compelling. With some
many authorized evidence, we can see that global warming really relate to human
activities.
G.P. Marsh published a book named “Man and
Nature” in 1864 and noted that mankind’s activities became a new “telluric”
force which was powerful on the earth. Mankind’s activities could change
many things in every place on the earth, or even out of the earth.
According to the statistics, human population increased to 6 billion which
leaded to exhaust the fossil fuels and release SO2, NO, CO2, CH4. These
were all harmful to the environment and caused to climate change. It shows how powerful human are becoming, and
prove human really have ability to change our earth which including change its
weather.
In recent discussion of human activities and
climate change, a controversial issue has been whether human activities will
affect climate change. On the one hand, some argue that human activities
cause the change of climate. From this perspective, with human increasing
producing greenhouse gas, the temperature becomes higher and higher. On
the other hand, however, others argue that climate change has nothing to do
with human activities. My own view is that human activities have a great
influence on climate change.
I agree with IPCC’s opinion that human
activities affected climate change by over using fossil fuels. Fossil
fuels can be used in variable ways. After industry revolution, fossil
fuels are being used increasingly. As a matter of fact, fossil fuels can
be machines’ energies. We have all known how important the machines are
in the modern world. As a result, in order to create more fortune, people
choose to use more and more fossil fuels. According to chemistry
function, it will produce lots of carbon dioxide when fossil fuels are
burned. It turns out more and more carbon dioxide appears in the
air. Since carbon dioxide can absorb heat and keep the air warm, our
world will become warmer and warmer.
To sum up, human activities affect climate
change and become one of the important factors to the climate
change. One obvious symptom is that causing greenhouse gas lead to
higher temperature in the world. Human should notice that and come out
some methods to stop it; otherwise, it may lead to serious consequence.
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