Ahmed states that climate change has been there for the past 50 years yet little to no concern has been given to its control. Global warming is caused by an increase in temperatures caused by gases released upon burning fossil fuels. Methane, nitrous oxide, and carbon dioxide are the major gases causing global warming. Global warming should be stopped at 1.5oC because should it go beyond that, it could be harmful to all living species. This source is reliable and useful in creating awareness about climate change in the modern community. The article is credible because the author is an academic writer; it was published last year and is reported accurately without bias.
Fawzy et al report that the current level of global warming is 1.0oC and is expected to reach 1.5Oc by 2030. Therefore, mitigating actions need to urgently be taken to prevent worse effects from the increased temperatures. Some effective control measures include conventional mitigation, climate change abatement, radioactive forcing geoengineering, and negative emissions. Conventional mitigation strategies focus on reducing carbon dioxide in the air while negative emissions aim at capturing the emitted gases before reaching the atmosphere. The use of geoengineering techniques to enforce radioactive reduces gas emissions by alerting the earth’s radio energy system to stabilize.
This source is reliable because the author is a scholar, and is useful to provide mitigation strategies for climate change. The data provided in the text is also accurate, written in less than five years, and is not biased.
The issue of climate change has been existing for the past 50 years yet no serious measures have been taken to mitigate it. Hornsey and Fielding show the need to convince people about a pressing need to control climate change. A huge segment of people from different countries seems to have no idea about global warming. Another segment shows that despite people knowing about global warming, they are not willing to do anything to change it. Although the source is written by experts in the climate change field and published recently, it is opinionated and hence not very accurate or credible. It is however useful to understand the need for climate change control.
Kahn examines data from 174 countries in the research on the long-term effects of climate change from a macroeconomic perspective. The study shows that real output and growth are significantly affected by the effects of climate change. The increasing effects of climate change on global temperatures and the absence of control measures reduces the GDP of the global economy. Abiding with the Paris Agreement would lead to reduced climate change and minimized losses of the global economy by 1%. The source is credible because it is scholarly, recent, accurate, and not opinionated. It is useful to show the macroeconomic effects of climate change.
Khalid et al provide that climate change significantly affects the quality of irrigation water. The increase in temperatures causes various factors such as droughts, precipitation, and floods among others. Short rainfalls caused by global warming affect the amount of irrigation water. Furthermore, greenhouse gases pollute irrigation water by impacting factors like heavy metals, organic pollutants, other sedimentations, and pesticides. Floods collect all land wastes and bring them to the irrigated water hence making it impure or use. This source is reliable as it is not opinionated and is useful in showing the effects of climate change. It is also written by climatic experts, provides accurate data, and was recently published.
At a global level, the climate change study society has formed a framework to develop future alternatives for climate and community to form an effective policy. The research assesses how effective the structure has been especially its working and challenging experiences. The assessment takes a scenario-based assessment, community discussion, and experiment assessments. The conclusion is that the framework has been broadly embraced at a global level and is meeting its immediate needs. This source is credible and useful for the final project to show the challenges of implementing climate change control. Written by climate experts, the article is accurate, published recently, and is not biased.
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Hornsey, Matthew J., and Kelly S. Fielding. “Understanding (and Reducing) Inaction on Climate Change.” Social Issues and Policy Review vol. 14, no. 1, 2020, pp. 3-35. Web.
Kahn, Matthew E., et al. “Long-term Macroeconomic Effects of Climate Change: A Cross-Country Analysis.” Energy Economics, Vol. 104, no. 1, 2021, pp. 105-624. Web.
Khalid, Shah, et al. “Effects of Climate Change on Irrigation Water Quality.” Environment, Climate, Plant and Vegetation Growth, 2020, pp. 123-132. Web.
O’Neill, Brian C., et al. “Achievements and Needs for the Climate Change Scenario Framework.” Nature climate change vol. 10, no. 12, 2020, pp. 1074-1084. Web.