Human Activity and Climate Change: Is There a Significant Correlation?

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Climate change is an extensively debated subject of conversation between climatologists and concerned citizens worldwide. Currently, scientists across the globe are scrambling for supporting evidence to find the leading cause for the rise in the Earth’s average annual temperatures with hopes of discrediting opposing theories suggesting that climate change is not mainly the fault of anthropogenic activity. Several eras of investigation demonstrate that anthropogenic action is blamable for a sizable fraction of temperature alterations over the past decade alone, as the rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide occurred at a rate speedier than natural solar climate change could permit (Jankovic and Schultz 28). Strangely enough, normal variations in the sun’s activity cannot rationally explicate climate change in the 21st century, as the sun merely had a slight influence on the atmosphere throughout the past millennium (Jian-Bin 39). Measurements collected in the higher atmosphere verified that the sun’s energy alters with no net intensification, attesting that the nippy appreciation in amounts of carbon dioxide emissions are a product of individual behaviors (Jankovic and Schultz 31). If anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions go unmanaged, the rate of climate change will increase quicker than ever.

Jade Greaves

20 April 2017

Prof. Kelly

ENGL 1102

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