Author: jy6773a

A critical article I found in the New York Times is “A crash course on climate change, 50 years after the first Earth Day”. The author discusses that the world is warming dangerously, and human beings are the cause of this problem. Today’s inaction will have a profound impact on the future of the earth.
Reporters at the Times’s Climate desk answered a series of big questions:
How serious is climate change now? How can we stop fossil fuel emissions? Is my job important…

And  for why I think it’s an op-ed, it is because the author expresses his opinions clearly and persuasively in these columns, which may affect millions of people, swing their minds, change their minds, and even change public policy. The author used some ways of Q & A to attract the audience and increase their sense of substitution. The author uses detailed logic and evidence to prove his point of view on each subdivided question, and the author will answer the question directly and throw out his point of view.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/19/climate/climate-crash-course-4.html

1. The debate or controversy that I am writing about is “Will COVID-19  have a lasting impact on the environment?”
2. The Debate in this Topic is on COVID-19 and climate change: Both of them threaten people’s lives and health.

Mona Sarfaty & Richard Carmona, “COVID-19 and climate change: What can we learn about saving lives?”. THE HILL, April 11, 2020. https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/492352-covid-19-and-climate-change-what-can-we-learn-about-saving-lives

Renee Cho, “What Can We Learn From COVID-19 to Help With Climate Change?”. March 26, 2020. https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2020/03/26/covid-19-lessons-climate-change/

Martha Henriques, “Will Covid-19 have a lasting impact on the environment?”, BBC. March 27, 2020. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200326-covid-19-the-impact-of-coronavirus-on-the-environment

3. In this debate, I think we should tackle climate change is like facing COVID-19 now.

4. My position is important because it helps us understand that college students should also pay attention to and understand the impact and knowledge of climate change.

Yesterday, the Chinese Academy of Sciences “exploration one” ship carrying “deep sea warrior” manned submersible arrived in Sanya smoothly. This voyage started on March 10. One of the significant achievements of this voyage is that scientists first found a whale fall about 3 meters long in the South China Sea. Whale fall with hydrothermal and cold springs are called the “oasis” of deep-sea life. Experts said that at present, less than 50 modern natural whale fall had been found in the world, and the newly discovered whalebone has a long-term observation value for the change of the marine environment.

The ocean’s depths are supplied by nutrients falling down from the surface waters. Whale fall refers to a unique ecosystem formed by the slow sinking of a whale’s body into the seafloor when it dies in the ocean. Whale fall can provide a circulatory system dominated by decomposers for up to a hundred years.

Different stages of whale carcass decomposition support a range of marine communities. Scavengers eat soft tissue in a few months. Whalebones can support abundant communities for years to decades, either as hard substrates (or surfaces) for invertebrates to settle on or as sources of sulfide from the decay of organic compounds in whale bones. Microorganisms depend on the energy released by these chemical reactions to survive and form the basis of ecosystems for a sustained period of time from food sources.

One whale falls, as through blue breeze, gave life to other creatures. This is the whale’s last gentle gift to the sea.

 

Source 1:

https://oceanconservancy.org/blog/2019/12/02/bringing-ocean-years-un-climate-change-conference/

As the Janis’ blog says, although oceans play a huge role in the functioning of our planet, in the UN climate change negotiations, countries have largely ignored our oceans. The ocean will be more prominent than ever before, not only because climate change is hurting our ocean and the communities and marine life that rely on it, but also because the ocean can provide sustainable climate solutions and drive new momentum for climate action.

Source 2:

https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2950/arctic-ice-melt-is-changing-ocean-currents/

In the news ‘Arctic Ice Melt Is Changing Ocean Currents’, because of the rapid melting of sea ice, the main current in the Arctic is faster and more turbulent. Now part of the Arctic’s delicate environment, it’s full of freshwater, the result of man-made climate change. This freshwater is important in the Arctic, in part because it floats over warm saltwater, helping to protect sea ice from melting and thus helping to regulate the earth’s climate. The Arctic ocean current changes lead to the loss of sea ice and freshwater, thus affecting climate change.

Source 3:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwAOfOjIpns

This video studies the relationship between the ocean and climate change in a documentary way. It can help understand the complex and essential relationship between the ocean and the earth’s climate.