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How is Climate Change impacted by Politics?

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How is Climate Change impacted by Politics?

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Climate change is heavily influenced by politics. The politics determine whether we improve our current Climate Change crisis or not. This is not the best standing point as the bi-partisan nature of our Government creates separation of ideas towards climate change. Democrats tend to focus more on Climate change solutions and Energy Reform. While Republicans generally tend to value our Economy over Climate change. With many Republican politicians denying that Climate change even Exists! Our own President removed the US from the Paris Agreement which encourages countries to work towards decreasing the Earth's temperature by 2 degrees. Trump called this plan a  “a total disaster”  and said that this would  “hurt the competitiveness” of the US Economy. The abandonment of this agreement was just one example of how Politics influences Climate change and in this case... not for the better.

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How and why do people’s cultural identities come forward in times of crisis?

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How and why do people’s cultural identities come forward in times of crisis?

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Peoples’ cultural identities come forward in times of crisis in different ways. Some people choose to ignore the fact that there is even a crisis at all because it doesn’t immediately affect them. While others believe that action needs to take place so that the crises can come to an end and preventative action needs to occur to prevent future instances of the crisis. There are also other opinions and thoughts during a crisis, but most are influenced by the culture of a person. As Aristotle said “Man is by nature a social animal” and we are most likely to agree upon ideas and ideology that most agree within our cultural groups -especially in a crisis situation. “For communities of faith, climate change is not just scientific, environmental, human, political, and economic; it is also a religious problem...Every religious community adds another set of perspectives from which to understand this multifaceted, wicked problem facing twenty-first- century human beings.” This brings a new perspective to the idea of climate change and how it pertains to how cultural identity can impact the climate change crisis.

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What is the Impact that Science has on Climate Change?

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What is the Impact that Science has on Climate Change?

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How is religion involved in Climate Change?

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How is religion involved in Climate Change?

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Religious communities tend to understand and take action on Climate Change and Climate Change issues. A group of Buddist teachers released a statement and highlighted the need for action using the 4 noble truths of Buddism to support their claims.

Climate change is the most serious issue facing humanity today. It is already seriously impacting economies, ecosystems, and people worldwide. Left unchecked, it will cause tremendous suffering for all living beings.
- excerpt from "The Earth as Witness"

They are not the only religion to bring awareness to Climate Change. During the 2009 Parliament of the World’s Religions in Melbourne, a Hindu statement was released, which similarly included a call to action based on Hindu Principles. The western Monotheistic religions (Christianity, Islam, and Judaism) are not excluded from speaking up about Climate Change.

Every religious community adds another set of perspectives from which to understand this multifaceted, wicked problem facing twenty-first- century human beings.
-O'Brien, Kevin J.

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How do we know that Climate Change is caused by Humans?

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How do we know that Climate Change is caused by Humans?

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The Environmental Defense Fund put together a simple list of the 9 ways that we know Climate change is caused by humans.

1. Simple chemistry – When we burn carbon-based materials, carbon dioxide (CO2) is emitted (research beginning in the 1900s).

2. Basic accounting of what we burn, and therefore how much CO2 we emit (data collection beginning in the 1970s).

3. Measuring CO2 and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and trapped in ice to find they are increasing, with levels higher than anything we've seen in nearly a million years (measurements beginning in the 1950s).

4. Chemical analysis of the atmospheric CO2 that reveals the increase is coming from burning fossil fuels (research beginning in the 1950s).

5. Basic physics that shows us that CO2 absorbs heat (research beginning in the 1820s).

6. Monitoring climate conditions to find that the air, sea and land is warming, as we would expect with rising greenhouse gas emissions; as a response, ice is melting and sea level is rising (research beginning in the 1930s).

7. Ruling out natural factors that can influence climate like the sun and ocean cycles (research beginning in the 1830s).

8. Employing computer models to run experiments of natural versus human-influenced simulations of Earth (research beginning in the 1960s).

9. Consensus among scientists who consider all previous lines of evidence and make their own conclusions (polling beginning in the 1990s).

EDF 9 ways Humans Impact Climate Change Article

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How is Climate change an Environmental issue?

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How is Climate change an Environmental issue?

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Climate Change is often seen as an Environmental Issue as the relationship between Humans and our impact of our Planet in negative ways. In this perspective of Climate change; pollution, over- consumption, species endangerment and the emissions of greenhouse gases are all connected. Climate change effects so much more than making summers more uncomfortably hot and causing record lows in winter.

Climate change is not only destroying the habitat of endangered species but also expanding the habitats of invasive species.

-O'Brien, Kevin J.

Species like Polar Bears are losing their habitats, while invasive plant species like Kudzu are growing at extreme rates. Kudzu has also been shown to produce Carbon which only furthers the cycle of Climate Change. This interconnectedness of Climate Change shows how critical of a issue Climate Change truly is.