Over the past decade, California and the Bay Area have been experiencing some crazy weather. This is caused by global warming which interrupts weather patterns causing some locations to have large sums of rain falls and other locations to have next to nothing. Not only in California but other places where there have been multiple category five hurricanes which are not exactly normal. To add to the effects of global warming, the polar ice caps are melting at an alarming rate and causing the sea levels to increase dramatically. This could be catastrophic for cities along the coast like Miami, New York, and Rio de Janeiro. So my question is will humans be able to stop global warming in enough time. I understand that recycling and reusing are good ways to help but will humans be able to part from there precious fossil fuels in enough time to save our earth?

No, even if there were no human beings on Earth and no factories , earth would still have climate change. Man doesn't affect climate change in any way, shape or form. We have had 10's of thousands of global warmings in our earth's history - none of them  were caused by humans, it's just another period of climate change Earth is going through.

I agree more with Brandon but I also know that climate change has happened before in history, but human emissions are causing it to change more rapid and are causing more extreme weather patterns in all areas of the world. Evidence of this are in the places that are  facing extreme hurricanes and storms and floods we even have seen a change in the Bay Area's weather as Brandon said and if temperatures continue to rise at this rate we will see an even more dramatic change in the weather not only in California but all over the world such as melting ice caps, ocean acidification and a rise in sea levels just as Brandon said but I do not think the question should be will we be able to do it in time but will we be able to do it at all. Will humans be able to decrease the amount of carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases we put into our atmosphere?

First, I would like to agree with everybody that climate change is real, and it is causing problems. Now, Morgan and Alanis, you both claim that climate change has happened before which is true. However, abrupt climate change, like what we are facing today is devastating. According to skepticalscience.com the Permian, Triassic, and even the mid-Cambrian eras all led to a mass extinction. As well, Morgan, man is affecting climate change on a global scale and your claim that man does not is entirely false. Brandon, you claim that category 5 hurricanes have hit California before, but not even a category 1 hurricane has. While we have had rainfall and high winds, Mike Anderson, the California State climatologist with the Department of Water Resources states that "We've had tropical storms, but the wind speeds aren't quite strong enough to be classified as a hurricane. No storm organized as a hurricane has ever reached California." In an interview with KSBW news (http: //www.ksbw.com/article/has-california-ever-been-hit-by-a-hurricane/12108434). So in summary, we should ask how can we help to slow climate change, or even if you're feeling optimistic, how can we fix climate change.

Morgan, I respectfully disagree with your statement that humans are not the cause of global warming. The 18th century marked the beginning of the industrial revolution when humans went from doing things by hand to having machines do it for them.All of these machines need power, they get it by burning fossil fuels which emit too much CO2 into our atmosphere, and humans have not stopped since. Scientists, schools, NASA, politicians,  the UN, and countless other organization and people believe humans are the cause of global warming. Although there have been several climate changes before in earth's history, this one is different.

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As a firm believer in human-caused climate change, I completely agree with Alanis.  Although it is indisputable that our planet has experienced thousands of climate changes, for example, the last ice age, the current climate change is different and is caused by humans.  What sets apart this climate change from others is that currently, global temperature is increasing at an unprecedented rate, almost 2 degrees since 1880.  In contrast, previous climate changes slowly increased over thousands of years.  Additionally, in response to Morgan's point, this climate change is caused by human activity.  As I previously wrote, the current climate change started in 1880, and since then, global temperature has increased by 2 degrees.  If you look at the historical events along this timeline, 1880 marks the beginning of the second industrial revolution, the time when humans first started burning fossil fuels for mass industrial production.  Additionally, in the last few weeks of science class, we have learned the science behind how carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, which ar e increasingly released from human activity, over-insulate the Earth through the greenhouse gas.  In conclusion, the current climate change is abnormal and the effect of human industrial activity.