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Introductory
For decades, climate change has been raised as a serious problem which creates a
significant effect on human life. The causes cited by experts for climate change
include changes in the Earth’s orbit around the Sun, changes in the amount of energy
coming from the Sun, changes in ocean circulation and changes in the composition of
the atmosphere. All these physical alternations have root causes, which some suggest
are cyclical and re-occur periodically, in other words they are natural, while others
attribute these changes to the impact of human activities and natural disasters.
However, it has transpired from historical data that large volcanic eruptions can affect
the global climate over only a few years. In addition, the greenhouse gases which are
emitted in industrial evolution are increasing and are also said to be a root cause of
global warming. From all this, it is clear that there are differing kinds of opinion, one
acknowledging the destructive power of climate change and identifying it as man-
made, the other supposing that changing of climates is a naturally recurring
phenomenon and that the contributions of humans through greenhouse gases are not
changing future events. However, this view appears to be short-sighted and to pay
insufficient attention to the danger of ‘speeding up’ climate change, even if it is
natural. Following this is an analysis of the role of natural and artificial factors in
this process to prove the level of contribution of human activities in speeding up
impending climate change.

Literature review:

The scientific society is divided into two trend of opinion, with William M. Gray on
natural reason side and David Deming on the human reason side, who suggested that
climate change is an inevitable process which help the earth to self adjust and on the
other side suppose that global warming is man-made and threat for life on the earth,
respectively. Gray (Gray, H.F., 1985) argues that all the evidence proved that the
current warming of the climate is just like past warming. In fact, it's not as much as
past warming yet, and it probably has little to do with carbon dioxide, just like past
warming had little to do with carbon dioxide and warming is likely a result of the
natural alterations in global ocean currents which are driven by ocean salinity
variations. Human kind has little or nothing to do with the recent temperature
changes. Unsurprisingly, this opinion was opposed by Deming (Deming, S.B, 2001)
who argues that human activities are the main source of climate change and that the
burning of fossil fuels is largely responsible for driving this change and the earth’s
climate is changing as a result of the build-up of greenhouse gases
Method and results
This research was conducted by collection of relevant data from internet sources and
selected publication. Criteria for selection were that the data focus on role of human
activities and natural disasters which affect to climate change and
Schematic of the Earth’s orbital changes (Milankovitch cycles) that drive the ice age
cycles. ‘T’ denotes changes in the tilt (or obliquity) of the Earth’s axis, ‘E’ denotes
changes in the eccentricity of the orbit (due to variations in the minor axis of the
ellipse), and ‘P’ denotes precession, that is, changes in the direction of the axis tilt at
a given point of the orbit

FINDINGS & DISCUSSION

Diagram illustrating how RF is related to other aspects of climate change


assessed by the IPCC. Climate change is direct or indirect consequence by human
activities and natural processes.
When the industrial era begin (about 1750), the forcings were represent the
values. The volume of long-lived gases, ozone, water vapour, surface albedo, aerosols
and contrails is things that have had a dramatic increase by human activities. The only
natural cause has occurred between 1750 and 2005 is solar irradiance. Since the
industrial revolution, the burning of fossil fuels, and the development of various
industrial processes and chemicals are the main reason for the dense concentration of
carbon dioxide and some other greenhouse gases in the atmospheric. The natural
carbon dioxide (CO2) occurs in our atmosphere with very low concentration which
natural inputs of CO2 (for example from the respiration of animals, the decomposition
of biological material and forest fires) are balanced by natural sinks (the
photosynthesis of plants and phytoplankton, and absorption by seawater). The human
activities have play a significant role in losing this balance, specifically, a natural
balance have remained the concentrations of CO2 in between 260 and 280 parts per
million for the 10,000 years and after the industrial era, this figure rose to about
383 parts per million and continuing to grow
The time life of a gas is a problem which should be considered to estimate the
level of damage to atmosphere. According to the table, CO2 has the greatest effect,
followed by methane, halocarbons and nitrous oxide.
On the other hand, the amount of solar radiation received at each latitude in
each season which has changed over the past period (but hardly affect the global), and
they can be calculated with astronomical precision. There is still some discussion
about how exactly this starts and ends ice ages, but many studies suggest that the
amount of summer sunshine on northern continents is crucial: if it drops below a
critical value, snow from the past winter does not melt away in summer and an ice
sheet starts to grow as more and more snow accumulates.

CONCLUSION

With these evidences, although nature has some effect to climate, human
should bear all responsibilities for their activities which play a main role in speeding
up the global warming

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