Changing Weather Pattern in Arctic

I'm interested in the changing weather pattern in the Arctic. Today there are many environmental problems on the earth, for example, global warming, deforestation, desertification, and acid rain, which are changing the weather pattern in the Arctic. Nowadays, environmental problems are noticed in the world. Among those problems, I think global warming is the most serious problem. In Japan, we had much snow unnaturally this winter. And there were a lot of accidents, some people died, some houses were broken, and also traffic jams were a serious problem because of snow. I heard this problem affected commerce excessively. Generally speaking, the cause of the extraordinary amount of snow is global warming. Also, global warming is the cause of many environmental problems. According to Michael Harris (2005) and Tim Appenzeller (2000), today, weather patterns have been changing in the Arctic. Arctic ice has been melting suddenly and the temperature is increasing there. This fact is the cause of speeding up global warming, dying out of some animals, changing ecosystem, and changing weather pattern of the world. Thus, the environment or weather of Arctic is the key to solving environmental problems. The biggest cause of the changing weather pattern is global warming. Therefore, we have to solve the global warming problem to solve the changing weather pattern problem.

The relationship between the changing weather pattern and global warming is strong. We have to do some things to solve this serious problem. Therefore, I would like to introduce the provisions for global warming in Japan, especially in Tokyo.

First, we need to consider about CO2. CO2 is the cause of global warming which is the direct cause of changing weather pattern of Arctic, so in Tokyo we do some measure for CO2. The first is that government obliged office buildings and other large source of CO2 to reduce emission of greenhouse gas. The second, the government is doing some things to reduce CO2 from transportation. The rate of CO2 has been increasing about 20% from vehicles from 1990 to 2000 in Tokyo, so government has strengthened the ÅgAutomobile Environmental Management SystemÅh and is trying to reduce vehicle kilometers traveled.

Second, using energy is the one of the causes of global warming, so I will introduce how we reduce the energy in Tokyo. In Tokyo, there are many huge buildings which were built in the 1970s when the economy was improved rapidly. The buildings are one of the big causes of waste of energy and emission of CO2, and became old, so the buildings will need to be replaced. Therefore, the government obliged new buildings to put in high technology provisions for CO2. Second, they promote changing the energy sources to renewable. Also, the government thought that it is an important thing to provide the information about energy efficiency to us, consumers, to save energy, so they made the organization for the relationship between producers and consumers. The government does other energy measures also.

Third, scientists have developed new technology to reduce greenhouse gas. They exploited a fuel cell-powered car. This car uses just hydro power, so the emission is water. The station for supplying hydro was built in 2002, and the fuel cell-powered bus has been used from 2003 to 2005 in Tokyo. It was a success. The car is really good for the environment. If the cars are produced, CO2 level will be decreased by about 30%. Although, the cost has been a problem, if it improves, the earth will be saved. Also, there are some inventions. I will introduce these things in the research paper.

In conclusion, the relationship between the changing weather pattern and global warming is strong. We need to solve these problems to live in the future. There are many measures like the example of Tokyo which I gave, so I hope we will find the best way to solve those problems as soon as possible and we will get a beautiful Earth again.

Reference:

Appenzeller, T. (2000, August 28). Plying a fabled waterway. U.S. News and World Report. Retrieved on April 03, 2006 from EBSCO.

Harris, M. (2005, September 30). It all boils down to water. Toronto Sun. Retrieved on March 30, 2006 from, Lexis Nexis.

Tokyo Metropolitan Government. (2005, a). Stop Global Warming! TokyoStrategy. Retrieved on April 18, 2006, from
http://www2.kankyo.metro.tokyo.jp/sgw/English/index_en.htm

Tokyo Metropolitan Government. (2005, b). Environment of Tokyo in 2005. Retrieved on April 18, 2006, from http://www2.kankyo.metro.tokyo.jp/kouhou/env/eng/index.html