History of Climate Change

History of Climate Change
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History of Climate Change
Over the years discussions about the weather, climate, and climate change have attracted attention from environmentalists, the government, and other stakeholders. According to the United Nations, climate change is the sudden shift in temperatures and weather patterns. To understand climate change, one has to distinguish weather from climate. Weather is the atmospheric conditions of a place for a short period while climate describes the average weather condition of a place for a long period. Thus, climate change is the sudden change of temperatures and weather conditions of a place for a given period. Climate change negatively affects human beings as it leads to increased greenhouse gases and changes in weather patterns. This paper will examine the differences between weather and climate and the causes of climate change.
The term climate relates to the general weather of an area throughout time. England, for instance, has a cold and icy winter climate, whereas Southern Florida is warm throughout the year. Environmental change is characterized as a considerable change in typical weather over long periods, such as more generous and wetter. A variety of natural and anthropogenic activities can have an impact on the earth's climate (Change, 2019). Climate change is influenced by various causes, including the brightness of the sun, volcanic, and fluctuations in naturally existing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. On the other hand, data demonstrate that today's modern global warming, which has been accelerating significantly faster than ever before, can indeed be accounted for only by natural reasons (Change, 2019).
According to Pester, the debate about weather and climate existed as early as 1200 B.C. to A.D.323 ( 2021), when ancient Greek argued whether cutting down trees and draining swamps would bring more or less rain to the region. The debate by Ancient Greek remains to be the first ever documented dialogue between climate change and global warming. In 1896, Svante Arrhenius, a Swedish scientist became the first person to imagine how humanity would influence climate change ( Pester,2021). Arrhenius warned the world of the risks involved in increased carbon dioxide gas emissions into the environment. He argued that increased CO2 gas in the air would increase global temperatures and cause other effects such as global warming.
In addition, Arrhenius's prediction on climate change is thought to be accurate as he argued that human activities produce greenhouse gases, methane, and carbon dioxide which are harmful to the environment as they trap radiation from the sun and hold it in the atmosphere which causes the rise in temperature and other greenhouse effects. Also, human activities are attributed to be the major cause of climate change. Emission of CO2 gas, cutting down trees, and pollution are among the major causes of climate change.
Many scientists experimented and debated on Arrhenius’s warnings which led to interventions and actions against climate change. The United Nations saw the need to take action against climate change and described humans to be the root cause of climate change. In the ...