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Climate Change Doug Ducey
Targeted Audience: Policy makers, Doug Ducey Arizona Governor

Policy: The Clean Air Act (CAA) is the comprehensive federal law that regulates air emissions from stationary and mobile sources. Among other things, this law authorizes EPA to establish National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) to protect public health and public welfare and to regulate emissions of hazardous air pollutants.

What is Climate Change: Climate change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns when that change lasts for an extended period of time (i.e., decades to millions of years). Climate change may refer to a change in average weather conditions, or in the time variation of weather around longer-term average conditions (i.e., more or fewer extreme weather events). Climate change is caused by factors such as biotic processes, variations in solar radiation received by Earth, plate tectonics, and volcanic eruptions. Certain human activities have also been identified as significant causes of recent climate change, often referred to as global warming.

In a nutshell: Global Warming is an increase in the Earth's overall average temperature caused by adding extra carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to the atmosphere that absorb and trap heat. (https://skepticalscience.com/Global-Warming-in-a-Nutshell.html)

Your belief: Skeptical that humans cause global warming

our thoughts: Climate change is a serious issue that needs to be adressed Evidence:The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have decreased in mass. Data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment show Greenland lost 150 to 250 cubic kilometers (36 to 60 cubic miles) of ice per year between 2002 and 2006, while Antarctica lost about 152 cubic kilometers (36 cubic miles) of ice between 2002 and 2005. Glaciers are retreating almost everywhere around the world — including in the Alps, Himalayas, Andes, Rockies, Alaska and Africa.10 Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the acidity of surface ocean waters has increased by about 30 percent.12,13 This increase is the result of humans emitting more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and hence more being absorbed into the oceans. The amount of carbon dioxide absorbed by the upper layer of the oceans is increasing by about 2 billion tons per year.14,15

There are human fingerprints on carbon overload. When humans burn coal, oil and gas (fossil fuels) to generate electricity or drive our cars, carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere, where it traps heat. (http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and_impacts/science/human-contribution-to-gw-faq.html#.WO-Xf1Pyuog)

Climate change is impacting Arizona; the average annual temperature has increased 1.5°F over the past 100 years, and is predicted to increase 2 – 8°F by 2100.[1. United States Environmental Protection Agency.(2013, September 9).(http://blogs.nelson.wisc.edu/es112-311-2/climate-change/)

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WarchiefInc (talk) 15:45, 13 April 2017 (UTC)Jose Valadez, Jesse Reyes, Alexis Sanchez, Erin Flores, Grecia Hernandez, and Jacob Magallanez