TITLE:
A Review of the Climate-Change-Impacts’ Rates of Change in the Arctic
AUTHORS:
Joseph Santhi Pechsiri, Amir Sattari, Paulina Garza Martinez, Liu Xuan
KEYWORDS:
Climate Change Impacts, Rates of Change, Causal Network, Arctic Ecosystems
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Environmental Protection,
Vol.1 No.1,
April
8,
2010
ABSTRACT: Climate Change is a global phenomenon that has a global scale impact. The current trend of climate change towards the warming of the globe has resulted in various changes in the geological, climatology, social, economical, and bio-logical processes worldwide. Temperature of the globe has increased due to various factors, but anthropogenic plays a major contribution through the heavy input of Greenhouse gases. One of the world’s most remote regions that have been affected by most of the anthropogenic stresses on environmental services is the Arctic Region. The Arctic Region has shown various drastic changes and has shown to be effected by various anthropogenic activities that take place elsewhere. These changes include the ozone hole (resulting from ozone degrading compound emitted heavily by an-thropogenic demands), the accumulation of various persistent and volatile pollutants (i.e. POPs), and the meltdown of the polar ice (among others). These drastic changes are well perceived and well projected for future preparations. However, the question still remains if these impacts would only accelerate change. This paper aims to discuss if these changes are accelerating or happening at a constant rate. In addition, this paper aims to only focus on changes due to global warming and climate changes phenomenon