U.S will Rejoin the Paris Climate Accord

Owen O’Brien

    The Paris Climate Accord is a treaty signed by most of the larger European nations, Its goal is to limit global warming to well below 2, preferably to 1.5 degrees Celsius, compared to pre-industrial levels (The Paris). Back in 2016 when the former president Donald Trump took office. He left the Accord dooming us from international ties on climate issues.

    The U.S. is one of the highest producing countries of greenhouse gas emissions. This means that leaving the Paris Accord will effectively make it harder to reach the goal of keeping the climate change rate below 2 degrees celsius. If this is possible we can slowly make strides to undo the effects of modern-day climate change. According to the United Nations, there are only 11 years left until we can no longer change the effects of climate change (only)

(Loesche)

    As of January 20, 2020, President Joe Biden was sworn into office. With this, he made executive orders that were to be taken into effect on the same day. Included in these was that the United States would rejoin the Paris agreement. There are really no downsides to this and will more than likely be a much better thing going forward. This will also help us in increasing our ties with foreign countries after the Trump administration.

(Barrabi)

    All in all, Biden being in Office and having the United States back in the Paris Climate Accord, we can ensure that we have a safer future and now be sure that there will be climate regulations in our country. That is enforced globally.

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Australia's Wildfires and What Could Happen to Us.

    

Owen O'Brien


Global warming is one of the largest fears we have in the modern world, this is because it is such a big issue that most of the people on earth can’t even comprehend what has to be done to reverse what is happening. Within the last two years, Australia was hit with one of the worst years they have had with their wildfires. With the temperatures on the rise, we do not want to see what happened in Australia to happen in our own backyard. 

(Wikimedia)

    

    The Australian wildfires from 2019 to early 2020 were one of the worst brush fires that have happened in Australia. The fires “which killed at least 33 people and three billion animals, from koalas to frogs, and torched an area twice the size of Pennsylvania.” as quoted by Craig Welch in a national geographic article about the new set of fires happening right now in Australia. A massive wildfire can cause total devastation to environments, while also being able to change a whole landscape.

    A massive wildfire like this happening in the northeastern United States would be extremely devastating. This is because of the dense population density that the eastern coast has. When compared to the wildfires in Australia. Australia has large amounts of land that is very open. This means that a wildfire there has a lot less of a chance of impacting heavily on very urban areas. If we look at the map below and compare it to what was said before about the wildfires we can see that the fire was twice the size of Pennsylvania, we can see how large the impact of a wildfire would be in the area even if it was only half of that.

(Wikimedia)

The Australian wildfires are an example of why we need to understand the effects of what wildfires can do to an environment. There is a lot that we can still do to prevent things like this.

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