Public Awareness of Climate Changes and Carbon Footprints

This research explores the subject of public awareness of the issues of climate changes. In particular, the research focuses on the issues of the impact that global warming and big concentration of carbon have on human health and what possible decisions of these problems are. The research also considers questions of the importance of media and public interaction to address global climate change.

This research can argue that lexical creativity and lexical framing (Nerlich and Koteyko 206) can influence greatly on the propagation of terms related to environmental issues and explanation of them. For example, it can and conduct public discourses on global climate change (Inglis 500) and raise peoples interests to such issues as the influence of a greenhouse effect and carbon in the air on human health.

This study aims at drawing attention to the importance of media in evolving questions of global warming and its consequences (greenhouse effect). A sustainable work should be led to put the issue of carbon mitigation into the public spotlight (Nerlich and Koteyko 208).

Certain steps had already been done in this direction as most scientists now accept that climate change is a reality (Brook 253). However, this questions still deserves great attention because according to the work by Gautier, Deutsch and Rebich, a majority of people, students in particular, have some misconceptions about climate (387).

Consequently, there is a knowledge gap as, public health officials are aware of the growing human risk associated with climate change (Akerlof et. al. 2561). Thus, media should pay bigger attention to inform and explain issues related to global climate change. One more important solution to the problem of peoples awareness of the global issues and comprehensive social changes is a public interaction (Inglis 501).

Having analyzed the works mentioned above, we can come up to a conclusion that: one of the reasons of global warming is a big concentration of carbon in the air. As a result, we can observe a greenhouse effect that has a negative influence on peoples health. A major task of media and scientists is to join their forces and promote peoples awareness of these issues through different sources of information and public interaction. It can elevate peoples consciousness and encourage finding common solutions to the problems.

Some steps have been taken to solve the problem. First, many the subjects concerning global climate change have been introduced to the curriculum of many educational establishments to raise students awareness of the climate change.

Second, the Kyoto Protocol that aims at preventing climate changes was signed. Third, the production of newsletters concerning a greenhouse effect sent to e-mails was developed. Finally, media was involved in the process of fighting against global warming while and educational TV programs.

Our research reveals the problem of public awareness of the influence of global climate change and its effect on human health. Thus, further work in this direction presupposes creating specialized classes and student conferences that would promote peoples interaction discussing problems of climate change. The production of more articles in scientific and non-scientific journals that would explain the issues in an appropriate language can also bring positive results and attract peoples attention to the problem.