Argumentative Essay On Climate Change

Karl Popper once said “The growth of knowledge depends entirely upon disagreement”. Many people, scientists, and even the government have disagreements about many topics from time to time. This one topic in specific though needs to have everyone on board for our survival. Climate change is happening because of humans, or anthropogenically. Here are a few reasons why and how we can decrease climate change.

What is climate change and how do you know it’s happening? Climate change is a change in regional or global weather condition patterns. As you’ve noticed, each summer gets a little hotter and this has started happening since the nineteenth century. Most of the warming has happened in the past 35 years, with 16 of the 17 hottest years since 2001. The surface temperature is rising as a result of increased carbon dioxide and other man-made emissions released into the atmosphere.

It helps trap in heat but with more of it and other human-made gases, it can heat up the planet a lot more. Even when I search climate change in google, it says "climate change attributed largely to the increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide produced by the use of fossil fuels." Humans started using fossil fuels in the early 1900s and our summers have started getting warmer since the nineteenth century. If you think that’s just a coincidence, then you aren’t ready for what’s next.

About 335 million years ago, each of our continents were together, and this “super land mass” was called Pangea. 160 million years later, it started to break off into fragments due to tectonic plates, causing the giant ocean Panthalassa to split Pangea apart and to help shape our seven continents. Although, in just the last century, global sea levels have rose about eight inches. The amount in the last two decades, however, is almost double that of the last century. That means in the 1900s, our oceans have risen more than a pencils