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Burning of fossil fuels and how the pollutants, such as, carbon dioxide accumulates in the atmosphere causing the planet to heat up.

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According to Hayhoe, "Climate Change is already affecting people, and the more carbon we produce, the more dangerous the effects over the coming century" (Hayhoe, 2018).

The Last Generation video from PBS.org eloquintly depicts the tragic impacts Climate Change has on people and the environment.

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Explore an island threatened by climate change through the eyes of three children who call it home. FRONTLINE and The GroundTruth Project present "The Last Generation."

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As UN Sounds Alarm on Global Warming, Revisit FRONTLINE's Recent Climate Reporting. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/as-un-sounds-alarm-on-global-warming-revisit-frontlines-recent-climate-reporting/

Hayhoe, K. (2018, November 30). Perspective | Five myths about climate change. Retrieved from
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/five-myths/five-myths-about-climate-change/2018/11/30/9fba233a-f428-11e8-bc79-68604ed88993_story.html?noredirect=on

The Last Generation. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/interactive/the-last-generation/

Overview: Weather, Global Warming and Climate Change. (2019, August 28). Retrieved from https://climate.nasa.gov/resources/global-warming-vs-climate-change/

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According to NASA, climate change is related to global warming, "the long-term heating of Earth’s climate system observed since the pre-industrial period (between 1850 and 1900) due to human activities, primarily fossil fuel burning, which increases heat-trapping greenhouse gas levels in Earth’s atmosphere" (Overview, 2019).

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What do all of these resources have in common?

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What do all of these resources have in common?

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Ultimately in conclusion, Climate Change is a result of human activity; i.e. burning of fossil fuels.

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Yes, climate change is occurring at a rapidly alarming rate. There are restrictions the Obama administration placed on the burning of fossil fuels in hopes to lower/decrease our carbon dioxide output, but unfortunately the Trump administration holds energy industries, such as coal in high regards therefore they slashed such regulations.

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Not only is our planet's temperature rising, but ocean temperatures are also climbing. Coral reefs are being affected and in some cases dying because they are not adapted for such changes in temperature.

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Flooding, Rising Sea Levels, Drought, Extreme Weather, Rise in planet's temperature, Rise in ocean temperature

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Melting glaciers leads to rising sea levels

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Melting glaciers leads to rising sea levels

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Many of the families living on the Marshall Islands have been relocated to other islands and/or to the United States due to the impacts of Climate Change.

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Who's job is it to enforce rules protecting the environment?

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Who's job is it to enforce rules protecting the environment?

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The Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, is in charge of creating and enforcing regulations. Specifically regulations related to the protection of the environment.

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The Obama administration viewed Climate Change as a serious matter and set up various sanctions to ensure people in the United States were not abusing the burning of fossil fuels.  This administration set out to lessen our impact on the planet while collaborating with other nations to form an agreement since ultimately Climate Change is a global issue!

Although the Obama administration fought clean pollutants and to steer our nation towards "clean energy," by getting away from fossil fuels, this concept and passion was not shared by the Trump administration.

Upon entering office, it was known that Trump sided with the energy industries, including Bill Murray.  Once Scott Pruitt was put in charge of the EPA the turmoil only got worse.

Pruitt sought out any regulations put forth by the Obama administration and immediately began slashing them-REFORM is what he called it. The Trump administration who sided with energy industries felt the regulations were too strict and were overjoyed to have won the so called, "War on Coal."

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Unfortunately due to the Industrial Revolution, our carbon dioxide levels have been increasing at unprecedented rates.  With no one to regulate the amount of pollutants entering the atmosphere catastrophic changes are likely to result and within a quicker timeline.

For instance, the Marshall Islands are likely to disappear due to rising sea levels.  Greenland's ice will melt much quicker than projected due to the rising ocean temperatures since majority of the glaciers are submerged underwater.

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It seems as though there are examples of Climate Change surrounding us, taking place all over the world, yet than why as a nation are we not stressing the importance of fixing the problem?  The people claiming Climate Change is a hoax or scare tactics are being ignorant to what can be seen right in front of them.  But ultimately, is it that these naysayers truly do not believe in Climate Change, or could there be an ulterior motive for keeping a blind eye?  Because the climate change isn't necessary impacting these naysayers by making them relocate, does that mean it doesn't exist?  Is it okay to place all the burden of a problem we started on future generations to deal with?

The answer to any person that has an ounce of humanity is NO, this is not right and we need to stand up and stress the importance of this growing problem so we can SOLVE IT!

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So let's use our critical thinking and engineering design process to brainstorm and create "clean energy" solutions!