Climate Change – The Biggest Challenge
We have spent the last week learning about Climate Change and the impact that it has on life on Earth. For this week’s writing task we are going to be explaining what Climate Change is, what impact it has, and what we need to do to improve how we look after the environment.
Make sure you have read and understood what Explanatory Writing is, and have made a plan.
| Your task is to explain
what Climate Change is, and what impact it has on Earth. |
| Begin your writing here:Climate change is the rapidly changing temperatures in the atmosphere. It is important that we discuss climate change because it can affect all of us. If climate change gets bad enough then sea levels could rise through glaciers melting, wildfires and loss of usable water. Climate change is caused by greenhouse gases, greenhouse gases are the gases that trap heat and go up into the atmosphere.Greenhouse gases are gases processed and released into the atmosphere by a living thing or released by factories, coal mining, burning fossil fuels and car exhausts.
Climate change is having a big impact on the earth but the biggest one will be the increase of the water in the ocean. This is caused by the earth’s rising temperature as a result of methane, carbon dioxide and many other gases being trapped in the atmosphere. The glaciers are melting and flooding the ocean. The glaciers are melting because the earth’s temperature is going up and melting the glaciers. This is bad because the sea levels may rise so high that it can cover up an entire island in the future unless we stop it. Climate change is bad for the environment because it can deplete water sources and increase the temperature of the earth. It will deplete usable water because the heat will turn the usable water into steam. Now this is alarming because if the water depletes and the heat rises then many trees will dry up and die, and without trees there will be a lack of oxygen. With a lack of oxygen we won’t be able to survive. One of the ways we can help solve this problem is that we need to end oil drilling because oil produces over 120 Megatons of Methane per year! Oil drilling produces this much methane because methane is produced when natural gases are flared or vented and the process happens a lot whilst oil drilling. This is bad because methane traps heat 25 times more than carbon dioxide, we also need to end gas cars because the gas contains over 20 pounds of carbon dioxide. In conclusion Climate change is bad for many reasons and we can’t really stop it completely because if we do, we will end up in an ice age once more but, If keep it at a medium pace trees won’t die and neither will we. |