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Global Climate Change, Dealt with Locally
Picture this, you’re driving your car down the road, the musics playing, you’re laughing with your friends, having a great time and you don’t have a care in the world. You’re not thinking about the fact that as you are driving, you’re emitting a number of different pollutants, many of which are contributing to the Green House Gasses (GHGs) in the atmosphere and that those GHGs are contributing to what we know today as Global Climate Change. You’re also probably not thinking about the fact that your contribution to Global Climate Change is not only effecting you but everyone on this planet. Climate Change received the “global” precursor because the effects are not localized and because it it something that everyone one this planet can and have contributed to, whether they are aware or not. So, the … Read entire article »
Filed under: Climate Change, Mosaic Action
Key Contention: North/South Divide
by Claire Tighe Rates of climate change and strategies for mitigation are not the only sources of contention amongst states in the climate change negotiations. One of the largest social justice issues regarding the global governance of climate change is the relationship between states of the” global North,” and the global “South”. What Bulkeley and Newell name in their book Governing Climate Change as the “North-South politics,” regarding the “poverty of climate governance” can be understood as tension between developed countries (“North”) and the developing or least-developed countries (“South”). Contention between these two global groups relies on the assumption that “while climate change has been largely caused by wealthy industrialized parts of the world, it is the least developed areas of the world that will suffer its worst consequences” (Bulkeley & Newell … Read entire article »
Filed under: Climate Change, Key COP17 Issues
Global climate change: an international problem?
As climate research improves, the term “global warming” has been scientifically amended to a more general theme of “global climate change.” While it was determined that a more logical term is climate change, the word “global” has kept through new science, research, and advancements in studies. This phenomenon has been caused by, and will affect humans, as well as the natural world on a global scale; but, how truly international is this issue? And, will the effects of climate change be solved through global action? At first, these questions may seem relatively easy to answer. It is global climate change, after all; however, the states’ role in combating changes in climate is more complex. Harriet Bulkeley and Peter Newell suggest that the framework of climate change on an international scale should be … Read entire article »
Filed under: Climate Change
What’s a few degrees warmer?
When discussing global climate change invariably someone starts talking about the weather. Weather and climate are not the same. We can comment on changes in weather from day to day or year to year, but climate is much bigger. Climate is from decade to decade or century to century. Sometimes the weather changes and there is a particularly hot summer or mild winter, but that does not prove that climate change is occurring. Climate does not change from year to year like the weather does. The increase of the global temperature even just a few degrees will cause smaller ice sheets, extinction of animals and changes their habitat range, as well as more severe weather. Depending on one’s location this could mean a more brutal winter. Our humanness would lead … Read entire article »
Filed under: Climate Change, Summer Reading Responses, Weather
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