Global Warming

In the past few years, the exceptional conditions of global climate have appeared with increasing frequency. Almost every day, we can get news about natural disasters happening in some corners of the world, and these disasters always have grave consequences to human beings. The number of hurricanes and seaquakes in coastal waters has increased; because the sealevel has raisen, seawater floods a lot of islands; the Pacific waters have disrupted the ecosystem because of warmer temperatures. These scientific problems ring an alarm to us: what is the fundamental reason to bring about these disasters or abnormal phenomena? Are they due to global warming? Without a doubt, the answer is “yes”. Due to the fact that global warming is the cause of most of these problems, we should address the issue of global warming immediately by focusing on air pollution, changing energy structure, and policy.

As we know, the primary cause of global warming is air pollution, so reducing the amount of carbon dioxide and other poisonous or chemical gases in the air will be the most effective way to relieve stress that global warming brings in. Because of the increase of world population and the industrial civilization in these recent centuries, these developments of human society directly lead to the carbon dioxide and the process gases’ content in the atmosphere was rasing all the time. In what we called the “greenhouse effect”, the pollution in the atmosphere makes temperature warmer and warmer. If we can control the discharge amount of these harmful gases, and give off less polluting stuff in the air, the situation will be better soon. To reduce air pollution is the key and a significant way to fix the problem.

Next, scientists and researchers got many great successes in tapping new energy sources; they tried to change energy structure, either for production or consumption. Coal and oil wrer the primary sources of energy last century, and even for now. As far as they are concerned, not only have they limited quantity the regeneration speed is slow, but also burning fossil fuel can produce a lot of pollution in the air, plants, and water. For now, new energy such as nuclear energy, wind, water, and solar energy is more and more appearing in our daily life, and electricity has found wide application in some ways. We will rely on new energy tomorrow instead of traditional energy. Both of current situations and modern trends require us to use energy that is clean and renewable.

In addition, not only can we use technology, but also we can address the issue of global warming through policy. First, in many ways and places the validity of laws is strong enough, so laws widely exist in any branch of our society: business, industry and agriculture, and our daily life, and laws also can be used in protecting environment, in preventing global warming. Making laws that help people to correct uncivilized behavior against the environment is useful. Furthermore, the issue of global warming is not a mission for an exact country; each country also has responsibility. It requires closer communication between each country to improve our common living environment. People in different countries can discuss plans together, and many reach consensus on some events. Policy is an important way that can not be ignored to address the issue of global warming.

Some people say that warmer temperature in the Pacific waters that have disrupted the ecosystem was not caused by global warming. But they are wrong, because more and more scientists believed that global warming plays an important role in disasters that happened in recent years, and many countries along the Pacific Ocean have already gotten in trouble because of global warming. In China, the mean yearly rainfall is less than before, especially in summer, and with the warmer temperature, China was always visited by serious droughts; what was worse, viruses can survive in high temperature so that the bird flu closely followed SARS to spread throughout the country. As fishing is important to its economy, Peru suffered huge losses in the exceptional seawater discharge and direction. The same as Peru, Australia also has problems in architecture and fishing. Less fish, more dead birds and much less plankton along the Pacific Coast were the symbol of global warming. We are in an awful hurry to address the issue of global warming.

In addition, it is very clear that environmental problems along the Pacific Coast were caused by global warming, and we should address the issue of global warming immediately by focusing on air pollution, changing energy structure, and policy. To begin with, we should reduce the amount of carbon dioxide and other chemical gases in the atmosphere. Second, using clean and renewable energy instead of nonrenewable is the trend in the future. Moreover, policy is helpful to solve environmental problems, for instance, to make laws and enable closer international cooperation. Even though opponents of the negative influence mention that problems along the Pacific Coast may not be due to global warming, disasters because of high temperature that happened in those countries give strong evidence. Let’s remember the wreckage of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina; let’s remember people in Tuyalu moved to another country because their own land had been flooded by water; let’s remember the losses of China, Peru and Australia, then we will know how important it is to address the issue of global warming.

C'dale

I hadn’t known how much I like Carbondale until I traveled to other places in the U.S. Even though there are not so many places or buildings with good architecture here, I consider this place as my home. Compared with huge cities such as Chicago and New York, the life style in Carbondale is totally different. We can completely enjoy ourselves in such a peaceful and quiet town.
The prettiest place I’ve ever visited around Carbondale is Giant City Park. I have no words to describe how beautiful a memory that I had this spring. I had never pressed myself close to science before. Everything I saw was natural, green trees, colorful flowers, and even simple wood houses. Wishing to live in either Carbondale or Giant City Park, I will spend my life when I am old.