This is my Climate change information report. We read an article about it, then we had to write our own. This is mine.
My favorite part was writing it because I really don't like pollution and that type of stuff. The hardest part was writing lots of different parts, not just one or two. To be BTB, I could have explained what global warming was.
Climate change
Climate change is here. Over the past century, it has been getting warmer and warmer. People kept ignoring it, so it became worse and worse. Now it is so bad that it is impossible to ignore. Climate change means more frequent storms and heat waves, and less glaciers and cold ecosystems. Now that climate change is here, it is going to change the world.
What is Climate change?
To understand climate change, you need to understand a lot of other things. Let’s start with the Greenhouse effect. The Greenhouse effect is basically when the atmosphere around the Earth acts as a greenhouse and traps all the heat and gases inside it, creating a warmer, more hazardous Earth. The gases that get trapped inside are called greenhouse gases. Some of the most important and destructive greenhouse gases are carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. These gases have caused the planet to warm up at an alarming rate over the last century. You might ask why there is so much of these gases? Well, the answer is all around you. People are causing climate change.
What caused climate change?
Before the 1800s, people produced only a very small amount of greenhouse gases. This was because there were not many cars, or factories, and people used only little to no amounts of power. Then came something called the “Industrial Revolution”, where large factories were built, and cities around the world grew larger and larger rapidly. All of these activities required a lot of energy. This came from burning coal - a fossil fuel - which releases a lot of greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide. Today, two centuries later, burning coal and other fossil fuels for electricity and transportation remains the single largest source of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Deforestation is also a major problem. Burning forests to create space for farms and houses is now the world’s second-largest source of carbon dioxide outcharge. Forests also absorb tonnes of carbon dioxide and turn it into oxygen. Note - we breathe oxygen. Trees help to keep most of our carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases out of our atmosphere, lessening the impact of climate change. So, when we cut down trees, not only are we releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, we are also getting rid of our greenhouse gas containers.
How do we fix this problem?
Climate change is inevitable, like Thanos. But unlike Thanos, we can control and contain it. The amount of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere is already very high, but we can stop the amount going up by doing a lot of things, and not doing a lot of things. Something so simple as stopping and realizing what we are doing to the Planet helps a little. Even better, you could make others aware. One of the best ways to help is by teaching others and even yourself about what we’re doing and why stopping it is important. Another way to help is taking a bus or riding a bike instead of taking a car or a carbon dioxide producer to work or to school. You might think this doesn’t help at all, but if you do it enough, and convince more people to follow in your footsteps, it has more impact than you could imagine. Think of it as a tower of building blocks that say different things. You can either put blocks on, or take some off. You can also start a new tower. What we need to do is start a new tower that says “Stop Global warming and climate change” and take blocks off the tower that says “Use cars and lots of power, and cut down trees”. Right now, lots of people are trying to do this, and trying to convince others to actually do something to stop climate change, but it still isn’t enough. Sure, it helps a lot, but we still need to do more. By doing something as small as turning the lights off when you leave a room, or biking/walking to work or school, you are that “more”. By teaching others to do the same as you, you are making your impact on climate change and global warming.
