Climate change response

Climate change response

Some people you know say they don’t believe that the climate is changing. After completing this week’s readings, how would you respond?

Write a 525- to 700-word response including:

• How scientists learn about past global temperatures and climates
• The greenhouse effect
• Greenhouse gases and their role in current climate change
• One piece of data scientists offer to show that the climate is changing globally
  • see this NASA website: http://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/
• Expected impacts of climate change in your area
  • see the EPA’s January 2017 snapshot by state: https://19january2017snapshot.epa.gov/climate-impacts/climate-change-impacts-state_.html

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            Climate changes in various ways depending on the area and circumstances or factors that are affecting the climate in that given area (Change, (2016). Scientists have deduced a number of ways to tell about climate change. Scientists learn about past temperatures and climates through satellite, history, instruments and records about environment. The use of satellite and data from instruments has one big challenge, their life span is too short in comparison to the Earth’s life, Satellite record is only for about 20 years and records from the instruments goes way back up to 19^th century…