Baz Ashwood

My main issue is about climate change and how it is impacting the world.

Around the world, global temperature is warming and the weather patterns are changing. Polar ice is melting and sea levels are rising.

Climate change has changed throughout the earth's history but this time it's different. Human activities are causing world wide temperatures to rise higher and faster than any time we know of the past.

Global climate change is an international action local and regional changes that directly affect people and the way the ecosystem. A way we can change it is by changing the way we live. Like stop using coal and the big factories to make power.

So climate change is bad for the world because if we do not do the right things fast we will not have a world to live on. Since 1970 co2 emissions have increased by 90% with fossil fuels. Fossil fuels like coal and oil are by far the biggest contributor to global climate change.

Accounting for over 75% of the global greenhouse gas emissions and nearly 90% of all carbon dioxide emissions. If we keep it up the temperature will increase more than 1c. The burning of fossils refers to the burning of oil and natural gas and coal to generate energy. We use this to power transportation eg. bus, cars and planes and industrial processes ever since the invention of the first coal used steam engines. In the 1700s our burning of fossil fuels has steadily increased across the globe each year we burn over 4k times the amount of fossil fuels burnt during 1776. 

Fossil fuels need to be stopped and need to be switched to solar. We need to shut down all the big fossil fuels companies to stop the increase of temperature.

Deforestation

Forests store a large amount of carbon dioxide trees and other plants absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as they grow. This is coveted into o2 so it is pretty much a filter to get the bad emissions out of the air.

When forests are cleared or burnt, stored carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere then we have to breath in bad air. 2015-2017  had a global loss of tropical forest and they contributed about 4.8 billion tons of carbon dioxide per year.