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Research Questions
I used power search, and opposing viewpoint, and also topic finder to find
some articles. The two of the articles that I found are academic journals, one
of them is from opposing viewpoint, and the other one is from a book that
opposed the views of an article that I got from opposing viewpoint.
Article#1: Human Activity Causes Global
Warming (opposing viewpoint)
Quotes: "Over the past 50 years, human influences have been the dominant
detectable influence on climate change."
Plankton actually grows faster and bigger when more CO2 is pumped into the
water
No matter how much CO2 we pump into the atmosphere each year, the
biosphere takes out an average of 50% of that extra amount. Even after we
triple the amount of CO2 we produce, nature still takes out 50% of the extra
amount
.
Summary: In this chapter, Roy Spencer had viewed his own point of views of
why human produced carbon dioxide has nothing to do with climate change
instead its good for environment. He had described the significant of carbon
dioxide on plants, and sea life, and how they takes out 50% of the gas from
atmosphere. He thinks that more the amount of CO2 , more it will be good for
the life on Earth. According to the author, presence of large amount of carbon
dioxide in atmosphere, allows the biosphere to take in this gas for their growth,
resulting in the decrease in its real amount, which is really good for our
environment.
Its a credible source as this chapter is taken from a book, which was written in
May 1, 2008 by Roy Spencer.
In this chapter, he presented his ideas on how human released gases are not
harmful for our environment and opposed the authors of the article#1 that I
used.
Article#2: Implications of climate change for
children in developing countries
Quotes: Children are potentially much more vulnerable than adults to
environmental factors (for example, heat, pollution, or famine) because they
are both physically weaker and less able to dissipate heat
The reason is partly that poor countries, on average, have warmer climates
than richer ones do, and temperature changes may affect health and
agriculture more severely in areas that are hotter to begin with
In 2013, the infant mortality rate was 10 times higher in low-income countries
than it was in wealthy ones: 53 vs. 5.3 deaths per 1,000 births, respectively
Summary: In this article, Rema Hanna and Paulina Olivia has claimed that climate
change is dangerous for humans especially for children in developing countries.
They have claimed that in poor areas as many people depend on agriculture, which
is being affected due to excessive heat or rain, are not able to feed their kids. Poor
nutrition, contaminated air and water are affecting children health. Both of them
also talked about how to lower these threat to children in developing countries.
This source is really credible as it is an academic article written by Rema Hanna and
Paulina Oliva. This article was published in 2016.
It provides me with the information on how the children living in developing areas
are getting affected more than the ones living in developed areas.
Article#3: Climate change
Quotes: Several recent accounts suggest that we must limit the total
emissions of carbon dioxide (and other greenhouse gases), not to exceed 1
trillion tons, if we are to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees C, which
many believe is the maximum temperature change that will not produce huge
impacts to life on Earth
Believe that a tax on emissions of fossil carbon will be the simplest, fairest,
and most effective way for us to reduce our impacts on climate
I would also like to research more about how geoengineering schemes can store CO2, and how CO2
can be released underground.
If it is possible to store CO2 underground, what impacts will it have on our environment.
Learning
Through this project, I have learned to do good research from reliable sources (not from google), and
how to check whether the source is credible or not. This kind of research projects are really
important because later, in future, these learnings can help us to write good research papers in
college.
Sources
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