CLIMATE CHANGE

Climate change refers to the shift of temperatures and weather patterns over a region
in a long period of time. Such shift of climate could happen due to natural circumstances such
as volcanic eruption and the sun’s activity. But since the 1800s, humans have been the main
contributing factor for the change of climate primarily due to burning fossil fuel such as coal,
oil, and gas which cause the spike of carbon dioxide emission since the industrial revolution.
This high carbon dioxide emission is caused by human needs such as using coal as a power
generator to power home, buildings, factory, vehicles, and many more. The growing
population also contributed to the increasing amount of demand for fossil fuel and the
growing population of farm animal also increased the methane concentration on the
atmosphere. Those gases are released into the atmosphere which act like a blanket covering
the atmosphere and when sunlight enter the earth atmosphere, some of the heat got trapped
creating the greenhouse effect and subsequently caused the earth temperature to rise. The
earth temperature is expected to rise by 1.5 degree Celsius by the end of the decade which is
way faster than the expected 2 degree rise by the end of the century. The rise of earth
temperature brings consequences to some places such as intense drought, water scarcity,
severe fires, rising sea levels, flooding, melting polar ice, catastrophic storms, declining
biodiversity, and even some coastal city and islands are sinking due to sea level rise. The
consequences could impact our health, ability to grow food, housing, safety and work. The
emission that causes climate change came from all around the world, but some countries
produce more emission than others such as China, USA, India, EU, Indonesia, Russia, and
Brazil accounted for about half of global greenhouse emission. Thousands of scientists and
government reviewers agreed to limit the global temperature rise no more than 1.5 degree
Celsius and because of that many climates solution such as the use of renewable energy and
agreements such as Sustainable Development Goals, the UN Framework Convention on
Climate Change, and the Paris Agreement have taken action.
The earth climate is changing and is changing fast, it is our responsibility to turn the
tide around for the future of our civilization and others biological life on earth by changing
how we act and how we dealt with things.