Climate Change is a Serious Social Problem

Climate Change is a Serious Social Problem
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Climate Change is a Serious Social Problem
It was the Swedish Chemist Svante Arrhenius who predicted in 1896 the occurrence of climate change in the future. Svante noticed the industrial revolution and observed that there is an increase in the amount of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere (Climate Intervention, 2015). Furthermore, he was convinced that carbon the concentrations of carbon dioxide will keep on increasing because of the fossil fuel consumption in the world. How he understood the effect of carbon dioxide to the Earth made him foresee that if carbon dioxide in the atmosphere doubled, it would become warmer. There was not much attention given to the issue at the time and the generations of today are still suffering from the neglect that happened during that time.
In 2015, it was observed that there is an above-normal tendency for climate change in Japan, except if it is during the summer and autumn months. During March in northern Japan, there were recorded high monthly mean temperatures. When May came, the same happened to northern and eastern Japan, Okinawa/Amani experienced this in June and November, and eastern Japan had this in December. In the western part of Japan, the amount of precipitation was recorded to be above-normal and the sunshine durations was below-normal. This was because of active fronts, typhoons, and wet airflows, and this resulted to the second consecutive cool and wet summer times in Japan (Japan Meteorological Agency, 2015).
Climate change also affects the species that are living in the wild specifically to their population persistence. Birds and mammals have the ability to adapt to arid environments like high quality urine and dry feces production, but physiological challenges of these places might be unwelcomed if it is endothermic. For instance, the night parrot in Australia is greatly challenged because of climate change because the majority of birds do not utilize a highly-buffered retreat. Another reason is that nocturnal birds should last the whole day without drinking water or eating food, so they become prone to dehydration. Climate change adds heat and this becomes a serious issue for birds living in the dessert like the night parrot. This is an event in Australia where climate change magnitude warning is said to be the greatest one among others in the arid zone. There are a lot of species that die because of heat waves, and the climate changes in deserts is a consequence of desertification that will be detrimental in the future (Williams, 2014).
Another negative effect of climate change to animals is on their ability to perform food caching. This is a behavioral strategy done by animals to store food so they can consume it in the future. When they are capable of this, it is prone to environmental conditions that can cause spoilage through microbial proliferation, and/or physical and chemical processes. The nutrition in food is from the consumption of cached food will be less valuable because compared to eating it right away. It is because the rate of degradation is going to play a main role in distinguishing the threshold when caching is no lon...