My Environmental Science Class Post on Climate Change

      The overall agreement from scientists is that climate is changing and rapidly. However because of the inherent details of the warming, doubt and disbelief often occur. Heartland for example, does not believe climate change is an issue we should be concerned about. This opposing argument is that warming change already has reduced and forecasts of future climate increases are unreliable; and the positives of a moderate warming are likely to outweigh the costs.
     Evidence of climate change is in websites such as Climate Change at the National Academies which shares that a new report expands on the U.S. security problems that may perhaps occurr. These problems are caused when events related to climate like droughts, heat waves, and storms go above the capacity of harmed populations to adjust. This report, Climate and Social Stress: Implications for Security Analysis, informs that the accumulation of scientific evidence indicating that the global climate change is moving outside the bounds of past experience and can be expected to put new stresses on societies around the world. In the last few years, the US intelligence and communities have started to examine a number of possible scenarios through which warming might cause or change security risks.
     Evidence sites that humans cause the climate warming by producing carbon dioxide. United States EPA Climate Change site warns that small differences in the average temperature of the planet can equal big and possibly dangerous shifts in temperature and weather. Thought this century, human hobbies have produced large quantities of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into our atmosphere. Most of the greenhouse gases produce from burning fossil fuels used to make energy, although deforestation, industrial procedures, and some agricultural procedures also produce gases into our atmosphere.
    One way that our climate is likely to affect our world and society is by changing our procedures and our land. United States EPA Climate Change Site states our, "human societies have adapted" to the partially stable temperature we have lived in since the last ice age that occurred  several thousand years ago. A rising climate will bring difference that can change our water quantities, agriculture, power and transportation procedures, the natural environment, and our own health and security. Throughout these past 100 years, in the southwest, the average annual temperature has increased an estimated 1.5°F. The yearly climate is predicted to increase an additional 2.5-8°F by the end of the century. Rising temperature in the Southwest is predicted to be highest in the summer. Another example of how global warming is affecting us, is that in 2000-2003, the mixture of severe drought and dramatically "high temperatures led to high die-off of piñon pines in the Four Corners region of the Southwest."
      I think a possible reason for the skepticism is that research done from short periods started the opposing stance. The stance was kept and still exists because it can be hard to change a stance once it has been made and became controversial. If we continue with our current path I think that in 50 years the climate will have increased half of what it had increased the last century. Therefore the rise of CO2 will have more effects and make global warming an issue evident to those who do not know of it.