As temperatures rise they affect weather all over the world but in the past year we have really seen the effects in the US. There are so many effects such as where there are grasslands and area with warm weather, wildfires spring up. According to ucsusa.org, the wildfire season is becoming longer and the wildfires that occur are more destructive. Of course a lot of CO2 is emitted from this which travels into the ocean and the smoke and soot will travel to the Arctic and as we have seen, the glaciers start to melt. This causes the sea level to rise and floods happen. Even though flooding mainly affects Asia, the US can still see flooding just in a different way.

Let’s look at this past month, for example the three hurricanes in a span of about three weeks. Hurricane Harvey hit Texas and flooded it, Hurricane Irma hit Florida and did the same, while Hurricane Maria devastated the Caribbean area. Besides the rising temperatures there are so many other causes and effects of climate change. Realistically, we are the problem but we are also the solution. We can reduce how muc h carbon that we are putting into the air by watching what we do everyday. There needs to be more action in how we are going to change this and what we are going to do. Everyone needs to be more driven and get the word out about how to change our actions and stop these extreme temperatures and weather.

I definitely agree with this topic. The increase in temperature is having a major impact on the environment. Wildfires are becoming more common as a result of the warmer weather. According to life science, the wild fires release about 290 million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year. This number is dangerously high making carbon footprints higher than average and increasing per year. To put this into perspective, the carbon dioxide released from the dangerous fires are about 4 to 6 percent of greenhouse gas the U.S. releases from fossil fuel burning. This definitely has a negative affect on our environment. When forest fires ruin trees and other types of plants, the fires release the carbon stored in the vegetation which ruins our environment even more. The fires and carbon dioxide are adding unneeded and unwanted heat to our environment making glaciers melt faster, which could potentially lead to severe flooding. I recall from bio two years ago that plants remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. With all the fires killing plants, our environment might have too much  carbon dioxide which is bad for all forms of life. This problem could eventually lead to our death so we want to do everything we can to stop it. That is why I agree that we need to be more aware of how much carbon we release per year and we need to reduce our carbon footprint. I got these statistics from https://www.livescience.com/1981-wildfi … -cars.html.