Climate Change
By: Ayan #20
Teacher: Ms. Tibbs
Grade 6
Introduction to Climate Change
The Basics
What is Climate Change?
What is Climate Change?
- Earth's climate has been constantly changing over the millenniums. However, in the last two hundred years, the Earth is warming up at an exponential rate, called Climate Change.
- Greenhouse gases have reached the highest levels they have ever been over the last 800,000 years.
- It refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns.
- These shifts are not natural, however, and it is impacting a growing number of people.
The Cause
The Extreme Impacts
Climate Change in India
India
- Out of all countries, India has been hit one of the worst by global warming.
- In the Indian city of Kolkata, 70 percent of the residents have respiratory diseases, caused by the pollution in the city.
- In Delhi, climate change causes people to have on average a 10 year shorter lifespan.
- India has already started to face irreversible impacts of climate change, like erratic monsoons, and intense heat stress.
China
- Being the world's most industrialized country definitely has extreme costs, especially for the environment, and China has just begun to face them.
- China's pollution levels of 57 micrograms of fine particulate matter, is 6 times above UN satisfactory levels.
- The horrific air quality causes 1 million Chinese citizens to die every single year.
- If pollution increases at the same rate, it is projected that climate change would adversely affect at least 85 percent of the citizens.
- Additionally, it is experiencing water scarcity and soil contamination, as a result of climate change.
- However, the encouraging news is that China has created tough-on-climate-change policies, in order to reduce its carbon footprint substantially.
Saudi Arabia
- Saudi Arabia is world's largest oil exporter. However, this causes irreversible damage to the environment.
- Saudi Arabia's air quality of 88 fine particulate matter per meter which is 8 times more than the acceptable threshold, is caused by vehicle emissions and industrial impacts.
- This has substantially increased long term risks of cardiovascular diseases, lung cancer, chronic respiratory illnesses, developing allergies, heart attack, and strokes.
- The largest impact of climate change is desertification. In a country like Saudi Arabia in which agricultural land is already scarce, food scarcity is a major issue.
- Desertification decreases food production by 70 percent.
Mali
- Once a leader of democratic principles in Africa, Mali is now a country roiled with war between between the government and insurgent groups.
- In the midst of the fighting, a newer and more threatening problem has arisen.
- Climate Change. Mali's pollution levels of 39 fine particulate matter, exacerbates risks of asthma, and emphysema, which is a type of lung disease.
- Like in Saudi Arabia, it causes desertification, soil erosion, and inadequate supplies of water.
- Additionally, it causes deforestation, and droughts.
- However, sadly the situation will only get worse the longer the war continues.
The Solution
The Solution
- I am not going to just point out solutions that won't politically work.
- Instead, I will being giving different political options.
- First, we must make global warming an environmental issue and not a political one.
- Another way is to strengthen the Paris Climate Agreement, so that all countries are forced to remove all their emissions, regardless of political issues by 2050.
- Additionally, we can implement a carbon tax.
- However, some actions we all can take to stop climate change, are to manage water and electricity use, and use renewable energy sources.
Inventions
- If I could create a future invention to help with current climate change, it would be an efficient way to create enough renewable energy through nuclear fusion.
- This will make it possible to power millions of homes around the world without contributing to climate change.
Bibliography
Bibliography
- “Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation.” NASA, NASA, 23 Aug. 2021,
https://climate.nasa.gov/solutions/adaptation-mitigation/.
- International Committee of the Red Cross. “Mali's Invisible Front Line: Climate Change in a Conflict Zone.”
International Committee of the Red Cross, 23 July 2021, https://www.icrc.org/en/document/mali-invisible-front-line-climate-change-conflict-zone.