Exactly, I firmly recite that the climate change is effecting to the world and our entire species on
earth. Climate change destabilizes the Earth’s temperature equilibrium and has far-reaching effects
on human beings and the environment. During the course of global warming, the energy balance
and thus the temperature of the earth change, due to the increased concentration of greenhouse
gases, which has a significant impact on humans and the environment.
The planet's climate has constantly been changing over geological time. The global average
temperature today is about 15C, though geological evidence suggests it has been much higher and
lower in the past.
The planet's average surface temperature has risen about 1.62 degrees Fahrenheit (0.9
degrees Celsius) since the late 19th century, a change driven largely by increased carbon
dioxide and other human-made emissions into the atmosphere.4 Most of the warming occurred
in the past 35 years, with the five warmest years on record taking place since 2010. Not only
was 2016 the warmest year on record, but eight of the 12 months that make up the year —
from January through September, with the exception of June — were the warmest on record
for those respective months. 5
However, the current period of warming is occurring more rapidly than many past events. Scientists
are concerned that the natural fluctuation, or variability, is being overtaken by a rapid
human-induced warming that has serious implications for the stability of the planet's climate.
The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have decreased in mass. Data from NASA's
Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment show Greenland lost an average of 286
billion tons of ice per year between 1993 and 2016, while Antarctica lost about 127
billion tons of ice per year during the same time period. The rate of Antarctica ice
mass loss has tripled in the last decade.(EVIDENCE)
Global sea level rose about 8 inches in the last century. The rate in the last two
decades, however, is nearly double that of the last century and is accelerating
slightly every year .Jakarta is one of the fastest sinking cities in the world, according to the World
Economic Forum, due to rising sea levels and the over-extraction of groundwater.
Arctic sea ice reaches its minimum each September. September Arctic sea ice is
now declining at a rate of 12.85 percent per decade, relative to the 1981 to 2010
average. This graph shows the average monthly Arctic sea ice extent each
September since 1979, derived from satellite observations.
The Climate Risk Index ranks countries most affected by climate change in the period 1996–2015
based on extreme weather events.
Cambodia ranked 13th out of 181 countries. The Cambodia Disaster Loss and Damage Analysis
Report describes the disasters that have occurred in Cambodia from 1996 to 2013: flood (42%),
drought (15%), fire (17%), storm (14%), lightning (7%) and pest outbreak (1%).3 during this period,
disasters killed 2,050 people. Floods accounted for 53% of the total number lost. The Royal
Government of Cambodia (RGC) predicts that monthly temperatures will increase between 0.013 0C
and 0.036 0C per year by 2099. Cambodia is ranked as one of the most climate-vulnerable
countries, not only in Southeast Asia, but the world. That is what we need to analyze and prevent
from the climate change in our future generation.
Ninety-seven percent of climate scientists agree that climate-warming trends over the past
century are extremely likely due to human activities, and most of the leading scientific
organizations worldwide have issued public statements endorsing this position.
The Role of Human Activity
In its Fifth Assessment Report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a
group of 1,300 independent scientific experts from countries all over the world
under the auspices of the United Nations, concluded there's a more than 95
percent probability that human activities over the past 50 years have warmed our
planet.
The industrial activities that our modern civilization depends upon have raised
atmospheric carbon dioxide levels from 280 parts per million to 400 parts per
million in the last 150 years. The panel also concluded there's a better than 95
percent probability that human-produced greenhouse gases such as carbon
dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide have caused much of the observed increase in
Earth's temperatures over the past 50 years.
On Earth, human activities are changing the natural greenhouse. Over the last
century the burning of fossil fuels like coal and oil has increased 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 concentrations of greenhouse gases.
The consequences of changing the natural atmospheric greenhouse are difficult to
predict, but certain effects seem likely:
Scientists attribute the global warming trend observed since the mid-20th century to
the human expansion of the "greenhouse effect"1 — warming that results when the
atmosphere traps heat radiating from Earth toward space.
emperature data showing rapid warming in the past few decades, the latest data going up to 2018. According
to NASA data, 2016 was the warmest year since 1880, continuing a long-term trend of rising global
temperatures. The 10 warmest years in the 139-year record all have occurred since 2005, with the five
warmest years being the five most recent years. Credit: NASA's Earth Observatory. Download still image.
Based on people activities, the world is getting worse without any adaption due to the climate
change.
As we are a youth, we cannot oblivious about climate change. ” Climate Change is real, It is
happening right now, It is the most threat facing our entire species, and we need to work collectively
together and stop procrastinating”, Leonardo DiCaprio
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is an important heat-trapping (greenhouse) gas, which is
released through human activities such as deforestation and burning fossil fuels, as
well as natural processes such as respiration and volcanic eruptions. The first graph
shows atmospheric CO2 levels measured at Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii, in
recent years, with average seasonal cycle removed. The second graph shows
CO2 levels
during the last three glacial cycles, as reconstructed from ice cores.
The time series below shows global distribution and variation of the concentration
of mid-tropospheric carbon dioxide in parts per million (ppm). The overall color of
the map shifts toward the red with advancing time due to the annual increase of
CO2.
