Climate Change

by Kitahna Moe // Staff Writer

Climate patterns are changing in California and across the planet. Over the past century the planet earth has faced a change that can be critical to all living things. There has been little hints that foreshadowed that change was coming and the human race has done little to help it. Leading from ice caps melting and water rising, global warming is getting worse. If we don’t start changing our ways soon, the world as we know it may never be the same.

Academy of Medical Arts teacher, Mr.Taylor stated, “I think if we don’t do anything to change it, it’ll get hotter and hotter and hotter, and weather patterns are going to change in a bad way. If nobody believes this is happening, as the Earth keeps getting worse and worse, people will keep thinking it’s just the pattern with things, and it’s really not.”

According to https://climate.nasa.gov recent studies show that the planet has been getting warmer and warmer since 1998. Due to the burning of fossil fuels or oil burning, the air is being filled with CO2. Warmer conditions will probably lead to more evaporation and precipitation overall. Living in Southern California, where it is overpopulated, may get harder if the weather keeps getting warmer. For example, we may start to get limited on water or food supplies.

Soon there will be a time when it will be too late to change the climate back to normal. But even if we were to stop emitting greenhouse gases today, global warming would continue to happen for at least several more decades, or even centuries. If we start today, it will benefit the generations that are soon to come.

https://climate.nasa.gov also mentions, “ Responding to climate change will involve a two-tier approach: 1) “mitigation” – reducing the flow of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere; and 2) “adaptation” – learning to live with, and adapt to, climate change that has already been set in motion. The solution will require both a globally-coordinated response (such as international policies and agreements between countries, a push to cleaner forms of energy) and local efforts on the city- and regional-level.”

When asked what will help global warming, AMA student, Tiara Misa answered, “ God’s timing is perfect it’ll take its course”

Aside from these useful approaches, we can all do little things to help the world get back to its normal climate. For example, a push to cleaner forms of energy. Such as, transport upgrades, energy efficiency improvements, sustainable city planning, picking up after ourselves, etc. It may take some time but changing our daily lives in the smallest ways will benefit not only us, but the generations yet to come in many ways. The future of the world is based off of the actions we choose to make today.