Hannah Howell- Changing Opinions on Climate Change

Summary: Global warming has been a controversial topic for many years. Many people believe that the climate change is not a result of humans. Chad Myers, a meteorologist, had questioned whether global warming is impacted by humans for most of his life. He felt there was no possible way for people to have such an impact on the heating of the Earth. But recently he changed his opinion and published this article on CNN on August 25, 2016 due to the following facts he discovered. 2010 had been the hottest year on record at the time, even though a cooling process called La Nina has been initiated shortly before. There had not been many volcanoes emitting large amounts of CO2 and the sun was not getting hotter, which were the main things that people had been saying caused global warming. This revealed to Myers that humans definitely are responsible for a large portion of the climate changes.  Each year since 2001 has been hotter than the previous and 2016 is supposed to be the hottest year yet. The CO2 concentration continues to grow and the oceans and plants are not absorbing the CO2 at a fast enough rate. With each year, it is harder to deny that humans hold responsibility for this occuring.

Analysis: Though emitting greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere is inevitable, there are things that we as a population can do to reduce them as much as we can. Examples of thing ways we can help are as simple as recycling, using less water, and powering down electronics when not in use. If steps to helping our planet are this easy, everyone needs to do their part and contribute. 

http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/24/opinions/chad-myers-climate-change-weather/index.html