In the article "Will Climate Change Get Some Respect Now?" Nicholas D. Kristof brings to light the climate changes that are happening in the world today.
The article states that, because Hurricane Sandy came, it brought to light this one question: "Isn't it time to talk not only about weather, but also about climate?"
"You can't say any one single event is reflective of a climate change," William Solecki said. Kristof even said that not every storm is caused because of a climate change. "But it's illustrative of the conditions and events and scenarios that we expect with climate change." Solecki added. With that being said, the article states that Sandy may not have been caused due to a climate change, but whatever it was, the storm is opening many eyes to climate changes.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who is from New York, said he recently told Obama "we have a 100-year flood every two years now." The article says that this is actually true. Therefore, the article encourages you to brace yourself for a few reasons:
1- Hurricanes are formed when the ocean is warm, and the warmth is their fuel. This summer, the Atlantic waters were at a record high temperature. Most of this was natural, and some of it was due to human-created climate changes.
2- According to computer models, hurricanes won't happen more often, or more frequently, but they might become more stronger. "The intensity of these storms is most likely to increase in this century," the Untited States Global Change Research Program says.
3- Because climate changes add moisture to the atmosphere, there is a strong possiblilty that the storms may come with more rain and flooding.
4- Sandy was destructive because it couldn't move back out to sea by a "blocking pattern." A recent study said that melting sea ice from the Artic may be the cause of the blocking.
Yes, politicians dropped the situation of climate changes, but so have those in the news business. The article says that, "the number of articles about climate change fell by 41 percent from 2009-2011, according to DailyClimate.org."
There aren't easy solutions to fix the climate change, but we can do a few things. We especially need stronger FEMA. (because we need stronger FEMA, this makes Romney's suggestions to privitize it dumb.)
At first, I didn't even know what a climate change was. But, I looked it up, and it found out what it meant. So, I feel that we as a people need to understand that climate changes are no joke. We could really be affected by them if we don't watch out for them. I didn't even know that climate changes were that serious, but, according to this article, they truly are. I don't know why we have climate changes, the article didn't really make that clear. But, I do know that we need to help stop them. However, 1 person can' make this happen. I'd need the whole world to help. From politicians, all the way down to homeless people. We all need to help stop these changes
The article states that, because Hurricane Sandy came, it brought to light this one question: "Isn't it time to talk not only about weather, but also about climate?"
"You can't say any one single event is reflective of a climate change," William Solecki said. Kristof even said that not every storm is caused because of a climate change. "But it's illustrative of the conditions and events and scenarios that we expect with climate change." Solecki added. With that being said, the article states that Sandy may not have been caused due to a climate change, but whatever it was, the storm is opening many eyes to climate changes.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who is from New York, said he recently told Obama "we have a 100-year flood every two years now." The article says that this is actually true. Therefore, the article encourages you to brace yourself for a few reasons:
1- Hurricanes are formed when the ocean is warm, and the warmth is their fuel. This summer, the Atlantic waters were at a record high temperature. Most of this was natural, and some of it was due to human-created climate changes.
2- According to computer models, hurricanes won't happen more often, or more frequently, but they might become more stronger. "The intensity of these storms is most likely to increase in this century," the Untited States Global Change Research Program says.
3- Because climate changes add moisture to the atmosphere, there is a strong possiblilty that the storms may come with more rain and flooding.
4- Sandy was destructive because it couldn't move back out to sea by a "blocking pattern." A recent study said that melting sea ice from the Artic may be the cause of the blocking.
Yes, politicians dropped the situation of climate changes, but so have those in the news business. The article says that, "the number of articles about climate change fell by 41 percent from 2009-2011, according to DailyClimate.org."
There aren't easy solutions to fix the climate change, but we can do a few things. We especially need stronger FEMA. (because we need stronger FEMA, this makes Romney's suggestions to privitize it dumb.)
At first, I didn't even know what a climate change was. But, I looked it up, and it found out what it meant. So, I feel that we as a people need to understand that climate changes are no joke. We could really be affected by them if we don't watch out for them. I didn't even know that climate changes were that serious, but, according to this article, they truly are. I don't know why we have climate changes, the article didn't really make that clear. But, I do know that we need to help stop them. However, 1 person can' make this happen. I'd need the whole world to help. From politicians, all the way down to homeless people. We all need to help stop these changes
Great post Aliyah. Your discussion of the article's detail was particularly strong. 100
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