Climate Change Response

Some people you know say they don’t believe that the climate is changing. How would you respond using this week’s readings (Environmental Science: Earth as a Living Planet 9th Edition. Chapters 8, 19, 20, 21, 23)

 

Write a 525- to 700-word response including:

• How scientists learn about past global temperatures and climates
• The greenhouse effect
• Greenhouse gases and their role in current climate change
• One piece of data scientists offer to show that the climate is changing globally
  • see this NASA website: http://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/
• Expected impacts of climate change in your area
  • see the EPA’s January 2017 snapshot by state: https://19january2017snapshot.epa.gov/climate-impacts/climate-change-impacts-state_.htm