Barack Obama once pointed out that climate change is one of the largest risks to national security and rightly so. Opening on that note, the global community, a consensus of almost 200 countries have agreed to reduce their greenhouse gases. What makes this deal unprecedented is that United States and China both agreed to get behind it. They happen to be both the world's largest economies and the world's leaders in CO2 emissions. A few of the missions include preventing the global temperature from rising above 2 degrees Celsius , minimizing greenhouse gases, review their timeline, and have richer nations (like the USA) help poorer nations (like India) with renewable energy. Many people thought the goals were not ambitious enough, but others thought it was quite remarkable that these goals could have been put into place. Personally, I am on the latter side and believe this Paris Climate deal has provided a precedent for future generations.

My Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35073297

Matt S, I really understand what your saying and agree, here are some other places getting affected by climate,

There are many places in the world that I would like to visit before I die. But global warming might deter me away or cause those countries not even to exist anymore. For example, a couple of places I would like to visit are Yellowstone National Park and Venice, Italy. But places like these are at huge risk to things like wildfires and rising sea levels. If we can’t reduce the amount of global warming emissions, we will lose so many huge tourist attractions all over the world. That is why talking about the issues and coming up with solutions is an excellent thing to do.

Yellowstone National Park, located in Yellowstone and home to the historic “old faithful” geyser is one of the most famous parks in the world. Millions of tourists visits the park each year and the park supports over 5,000 jobs. But many scientists believe climate change will affect this park heavily. By the end of the century temperatures rises are going to increase by at least 4 degrees ce lsius and because of the warming going on, winter in the park will be much shorter. Biologists also say that there will be a 26% decrease in cutthroat trout this year in the Yellowstone River because of rising temperatures. According to The Union of Concerned Scientists.com, warmer temperatures and longer fire seasons are predicted to increase the area burned by fires each year of 600%. These fires will change the ecosystem and a lot of the landscape in Yellowstone National Park.

Venice, Italy is another incredible place in the world that is also affected by climate change and global warming. Venice and its lagoon is at serious risk to rising sea levels. This is a huge deal, because Venice is literally a city in water and is visited by millions of tourists a year. With seal levels and tourist numbers rising increasingly each year, Venice has huge problems because of the fact that each year they are sinking and the canal levels are rising. Also, with the sea levels rising flooding also becomes a major issue for the city. With the water levels rising by about 30%, more frequent flooding, and the sea levels rising continuing to wear down the buildings, Venice will have major problems keeping their city safe and afloat.

Venice and Yellowstone National Park are just two of many historical places in the world that are effected from global warming/climate change. There are many ways we can save them or prevent them from disappearing faster. For example, factories could start producing a smaller amount of greenhouse gases by buying more energy efficient machines, which would mean that oceans would be absorbing less and less of it. This would help because it would make the atmosphere less warm causing the temperature not to rise as much, which would then result in glaciers not melting making the sea level rising at a much slower pace. Imagine if all factories thought of this and tried to not produce as much greenhouse gases and tried being more energy efficient. The atmosphere temperature would drop and sea levels wouldn’t rise as much. But in order to do this, we need everyone’s help, so let’s all spread the word!

My source is
"World Heritage Sites at Risk." Union of Concerned Scientists. Web. 29 Sept. 2016.
http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming#.V-2T0fkrLcs

This agreement between the United States and China gives me some hope for our future. However, I think that this decision is a little late, for global warming has been a clear issue for such a long time. I really think that if the world's nations can forget their differences and unite under a greater cause, a lot of good can come from it. I am glad to hear, as Matt mentioned, that the U.S. and China already have missions to reduce the rising temperatures around the world. In response to Saul's comment, I do agree that many locations on our planet are suffering greatly due to climate change. Overall, I am extremely curious as to what the future holds in regards to global plans to combat the effects of global warming and climate change. Fingers crossed!