Overview

Climate change is the change in the tempurature of the Earth over an extended period of time. Climate change and global warming can be used interchangably, but as global warming is used more in common language, I chose to search with that term. I picked this topic because the degree of climate change in the recent years, and this century in general, has been significantly dangerous. It is more than likely to be caused by human activity since the 1900s. Besides cow farts, humans have been burning fossil fuels and raising carbon levels since cars were first invented. 

Evidence of climate change can be found worldwide today. From rising sea levels to increasing extreme natural disasters and every indicator in between, record-breaking events have occured due to global warming. 

I researched the searches for causes and effects of climate change, along with some factors of climate change to display the correlation. 

My articles contain information on climate change and its connection to air pollution, rising global temperatures, extreme weather events, and more. 

My Data

My Conclusions

Articles

• Pollution
  • May 2018
    • This short grpahic article from NASA shows a visual representation of the global temperature since the 1880s, and has a short summary of the specific rise in temperature since the early 20th century. 

• Extreme Heat Waves, a Result of Climate Change
  • 2018 Is Shaping Up to Be the Fourth-Hottest Year
    • Somini Sengupta writes about the severe heat waves in 2018, along with the firestorm in California and other extreme weather events in the world. She also connects the heat to carbon emissions, and how it has been at its highest in more than 800,000 years. Sengupta then moves on to the effects and resolutions of the extreme heat all around the world, from dimiinishing crops in South America and Europe to planting trees and painting roofs with reflective white paint. 

• Climate Change, Air Pollution, and Public Health
  • CATALYST FOR ACTION – THE CLIMATE CHANGE, AIR POLLUTION AND PUBLIC HEALTH NEXU
    • Writer Paulette Frank discusses the connection between climate change and air pollution. She specifies the different forms of air pollution, including methane, ground level ozone, carbon-based fuels, etc. She then calls the reader to action to help improve the air quality in their communities.

• Record-Breaking Natural Disasters in 2017
  • These Billion-Dollar Natural Disasters Set a U.S. Record in 2017
    • New York Times writer Kendra Pierre-Louis writes about the several natural disasters of 2017, and the cost to repair the cities and and counties that they destroyed. This article explains the sharp rise in searches among global warming in late 2017. Overall, there were 16 extreme weather events that cost a total of $306 billion in damages, making 2017 the most expensive year for natural disasters.