The United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon spooked to
delegates about new updates of climate changes and his plan to push a treaty
for the high emission of greenhouse gas. The top scientist in the world
revealed of the dangers of the increasing greenhouse gas emit by humans. They
also established a target level of emissions which humans must stop or there
will be serious climate change consequences. Because of human activities
especially during the Industrial Revolution, over half-trillion tons of carbon
dioxide has already been burned during that time. There are still doubts on the
rate of sea level rises and species extinctions, but the only way out is to
limit emissions. They also offered a “carbon budget,” that is the limited
number of greenhouse gases or carbon dioxide that can be produced by companies.
Strict policy reform will need to be done to prevent corporations
from destroying our planet. Government will need to create policy changes and
find ways to ameliorate the problem. Climate changes is very frightening
because once it begins it’s not something that can be stopped automatically; it
will take many years to repair the damages we did to the earth. This problem
requires cooperation from every country, which is difficult to do if nations
don’t share the same goals. “The group has now issued five major reports
since 1990, each of them finding greater certainty that the world is warming
and greater likelihood that human activity is the chief cause.” This is very
terrifying because these changes occurred everywhere. One event I myself did
experience was the increasing hot weather of this past summer in California. I
grew up in California and have never recall the temperature to be at least 100
or higher every day until this past summer that I visited.
Mailee Vue
October 2, 2013
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