AIR101 World In Crisis - Formal Letter Assignment Solution

Dear Mr. Guterres,

This letter has been addressed to you with regards to the dynamic challenges in lieu of the climate change scenario, that you are indeed well aware of. This issue of climate change is a focal one for both this generation, and the ones to come after it. With the reason behind this crisis being of utmost import to the United Nations, I write to you in order to articulate its priority and urgentness. Climate change is moving at a faster pace than we are and it is predicted that if we do not change our course by 2020, we will be missing the opportunity to find resolution to this problem, which could have disastrous repercussions for people and natural systems that sustain populations across the world. The UN has taken many initiatives to control this situation but so far we have not achieved as much as is necessary. It is critical to state that due to the effects of the climate change, our economic and social structures are threatened in ways we cannot imagine. The UN has taken many initiatives to control this situation but so far implementability is lacking.

Climate change has altered the average global temperature by 1 F/0.5 C over the past century, with its excessive emissions intake causing the greenhouse gases to weaken the protective ozone layer (Manabe and Wetherald, 1987). Additionally, according to Manabe and Wetherald, it can be noted that the changes in the global landscape such as decrease in snow cover, the earlier flowering of plants and worldwide shifts in plants and animal ranges have not only occurred themselves, but have also induced more climate change. The growth and spread of industrialization, can be noted as a direct and major determinant of these conditions (Anderson, Ray & White, 2009).

Scientists have made considerable warnings through predictions both from the 20th century till date regarding the usage of fossil fuels, and how they contribute to the total emissions being emitted which are capable of accumulating and heating up the temperature of the Earth (Capoor and Ambrosi, 2008). Ultimately, we have reached a time where this debate has come to a final and worrisome conclusion. 

The intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) final report in April 2007 in Brussels set in 1985 as an organ of the UN illustrates in 1,500-page a holistic and thorough solution, as well as scientific statement on the impact of climate change. The prediction that “If global temperatures rise by 1.5 to 2.5 degrees Celsius above the average in 1990s, 30 percent of species could face extinction.”, and the species facing potential extinction, becoming a cause of alarm and concern for everybody is indeed applicable, as climate change is indeed a global problem(Ray and White, 2009).