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Running Head: GLOBAL WARMING IS HUMANITY’S GREATEST CHALLENGE

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Global Warming is Humanity’s Greatest Challenge

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Global warming has been referred by the author as a time bomb which needs to be defused. The climate changes that are being experience has been as a result of increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere which is being produced by the fossil fuels. The effects of this global warming includes the stressing of the ecosystem and also the melting of the sea ice whose effects includes the rise in levels of the seas which has the ability to cause the wiping out of the shorelines, as well as cause the extinction of countless plant and animal species and dry up freshwater supplies. To do away with the causes of global warming, there is a need to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and move away from the use of fossil fuels.

According to the author, the findings that he wrote twenty years after the testimonial congress of 1988 are more or less the same with the current situation but noted that the two have one huge difference. The different exists between what the scientific community knows about global warming and what is known about the global warming by the policy makers and the general public. The arising difference is that all the schedule slack have been used in the efforts of defusing the global warming referred to as a time bomb. The incumbent President and Congress had a role of offering a defined course in the year 2009 in which the leadership of United States would commensurate with the responsibility for the current situation which seems dangerous. Otherwise it would be impractical to bring up issues of curbing atmospheric carbon dioxide, burning fossil fuels causing greenhouse gases, to levels that prevent the climate system from giving hints on the incumbent effects that will cause disaster that will be beyond the control of humans. Change necessary for the preservation of the planet is necessary according to the author.

The building of the 1988 conclusions as presented in the congress was done from an array of inputs. These inputs included planetary studies, basic physics, climate models and observations of on-going changes. The strength of the evidence allowed the author to say it was time to halt waffling. The author was sure that time would bring a similar consensus between the scientific community and the policy maker’s community. The dangerous tipping points as presented by the author are the fact that severe effects of global warming are just on the way to be felt by the world but the inevitable has been delayed by the fact that there is huge amounts of inertia on the global oceans.

To deal with the effects of global warming on the planet, human beings are needed to move to carbon-free energy promptly. This can be achieved for instance through the stabilization of sea ice in Arctic and the great ice sheets to match the current carbon dioxide levels, show that that a lot has been done so far. We must reduce the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to preserve our planet. All the carbon producing materials such as the oils that vehicles use all produce carbon dioxide and we need to move towards clean energy.

However, this has been blocked by special interests and blocking the transition towards the use of renewable energy in future. Rather than incorporating the use of energies that are renewable, fossil companies decided to play down the issues of global warming, just like tobacco companies played down the links to cancer caused by smoking. Prevention methods are complicated, for instance availing funds to aid in shaping the discussions of global warming in school textbook.