Climate Change Actions!

Climate change is any long-term significant change in the “average weather” of a region or the earth as a whole. Average weather may include average temperature, precipitation and wind patterns. It involves changes in the variability or average state of the atmosphere over durations ranging from decades to millions of years. These changes can be caused by dynamic processes on Earth, external forces including variations in sunlight intensity, and more recently by human activities.

It is true that technology has been the biggest contributor of climate change, since technology is more on invention and invention needs more test and it uses some chemicals that can harm our environment. I really agree of that statement that technology is the biggest giver to climate change and I want that all the user of technology will help our environment for the sake of the next generation. As an Information Technology student of University Southeastern Philippines I have here a number of suggestions that can help reduce the effect of technology in global warming or climate change.

Suggestions in helping our environment and minimize climate change:

1. Proper Disposal of the Hardware. Proper disposal of the hardware can reduce in climate change and hardware that are not being used can be a source of income instead. Hardware can also be the cause of the climate change if it is not properly dispose. Old hardware or damage hardware can still be utilize by making them a decoration or something getting their good parts and put it into hardware. One good example also of disposal of hardware is that you can donate or sell to the schools that are studying about certain hardware for academic purposes.

2. Don’t burn plastics

3. Change a light. Replacing a regular light bulb with a compact fluorescent one saves 150 pounds of carbon dioxide each year.

4. Drive less. Walk, bike, carpool, take mass transit, and/or trip chain. All of these things can help reduce gas consumption and one pound of carbon dioxide for each mile you do not drive. If you are using car or vehicles that needs a gasoline to run or a diesel it releases waste from the machine of the vehicle. The waste that has been releases from the vehicle the air will be polluted. While if you are using only a bicycle you can save money, you can exercise and the best of all you save our mother nature.

5. Recycle more and buy recycled. Save up to 2,400 pounds of carbon dioxide each year just by recycling half of your household waste. By recycling and buying products with recycled content you also save energy, resources and landfill space!

6. Check your tires. Properly inflated tires mean good gas mileage. For each gallon of gas saved, 20 pounds of carbon dioxide are also never produced.

7. Use less hot water. It takes a lot of energy to heat water. Reducing the amount used means big savings in not only your energy bills, but also in carbon dioxide emissions. Using cold water for your wash saves 500 pounds of carbon dioxide a year, and using a low flow showerhead reduces 350 pounds of carbon dioxide. Make the most of your hot water by insulating your tank and keeping the temperature at or below 120.

8. Avoid products with a lot of packaging. Preventing waste from being created in the first place means that there is less energy wasted and fewer resources consumed. When you purchase products with the least amount of packaging, not only do you save money, but you also help the environment! Reducing your garbage by 10% reduces carbon dioxide emissions by 1,200 pounds.

9. Adjust your thermostat. Keeping your thermostat at 68 degrees in winter and 78 degrees in summer not only helps with your energy bills, but it can reduce carbon dioxide emissions as well. No matter where you set your dial, two degrees cooler in the winter or warmer in the summer can mean a reduction of 2,000 pounds of carbon dioxide a year.

10. Plant a tree. A single tree can absorb one ton of carbon dioxide over its lifetime.

11. Turn off electronic devices when not in use. Simply turning off your TV, VCR, computer and other electronic devices can save each household thousand of pounds of carbon dioxide each year.

12. Segregate your garbage. by segregating the garbage properly it can help in minimizing the climate change.


Having this actions follow in minimizing the climate change, we can help our society, our environment and especially the next generation. Climate change can affect not only here in our country but in the entire continent. I will give you some of the effects of the climate change and try to react. With these effects of the climate change can you still take no actions?Here are some of the effects of the climate change:

• During the 20th century, sea level rose about 15 cm (6 inches) due to melting glacier ice and expansion of warmer seawater. Models predict that sea level may rise as much as 59 cm (23 inches) during the 21st Century, threatening coastal communities, wetlands, and coral reefs.
• Arctic sea ice is melting. The summer thickness of sea ice is about half of what it was in 1950. Melting ice may lead to changes in ocean circulation. Plus melting sea ice is speeding up warming in the Arctic.
• Glaciers and permafrost are melting. Over the past 100 years, mountain glaciers in all areas of the world have decreased in size and so has the amount of permafrost in the Arctic. Greenland's ice sheet is melting faster too.
• Sea-surface temperatures are warming. Warmer waters in the shallow oceans have contributed to the death of about a quarter of the world's coral reefs in the last few decades. Many of the coral animals died after weakened by bleaching, a process tied to warmed waters.
• Heavier rainfall cause flooding in many regions. Warmer temperatures have led to more intense rainfall events in some areas. This can cause flooding.
• Extreme drought is increasing. Higher temperatures cause a higher rate of evaporation and more drought in some areas of the world.
• Ecosystems are changing. As temperatures warm, species may either move to a cooler habitat or die. Species that are particularly vulnerable include endangered species, coral reefs, and polar animals. Warming has also caused changes in the timing of spring events and the length of the growing season.
• Hurricanes have changed in frequency and strength. There is evidence that the number of intense hurricanes has increased in the Atlantic since 1970. Scientists continue to study whether climate is the cause.
• Heat waves more frequent. It is likely that heat waves have become more common in more areas of the world.
• Warmer temperatures affect human health. There have been more deaths due to heat waves and more allergy attacks as the pollen season grows longer. There have also been some changes in the ranges of animals that carry disease like mosquitoes.
• Seawater is becoming more acidic. Carbon dioxide dissolving into the oceans, is making seawater more acidic. There could be impacts on coral reefs and other marine life.

After reading all the steps and actions to be taken to minimize the climate change, I will try to ask you if you can do it all the steps and action given for the future generations and for your own family? For me we can’t feel the all the effects of the climate change today but some of the effects are is in action now. Climate change can be a big disaster in the next generation and It could harm the people. We can use the given steps and action to minimize the climate change and we are also helping our environment by following those steps. While we are acting the steps given, at the same time we save our money. Just like if we use bicycle if we were going to the places that is not so far, also if we turn off the appliances that are not being used, and by changing our regular light bulb into compact fluorescent for the that the compact fluorescent is much affordable than the regular light bulb(yellow light).

After seeing the effects of the climate change I was shocked and I was thinking if these effects will happen how the people could face this phenomenon. One time I watch television (GMA network) and the topic is about the climate change and the effects of climate change in the entire world, I’m so worried and try to ask my self is this possible to happen? As the program goes along they prove that it could really happen it is also because of people. I’m scared of the time it will happen, if the effects will take place all of the people will be affected and will suffer from the disasters and it can lead to death. After reading some of the articles about climate change, I can also say that the technology is also one of the biggest contributors of climate change. But the biggest contributor of climate change is you and only you.