MY CARBON FOOTPRINT AND ITS IMPACT ON CLIMATE CHANGE 1
My Carbon Footprint & Its Impact on Climate Change
Marquesha A. Atkism
Saint Leo University
MY CARBON FOOTPRINT AND ITS IMPACT ON CLIMATE CHANGE 2
ABSTRACT
Each year, talk of climate change becomes more and more prominent. Climate change is a
change in the earth’s climate, especially due to an increase in the average atmospheric
temperature. Observations and studies have shown the Earth’s climate to be warming
consistently. The Earth’s average temperature has been rising steadily nearly two degrees
Fahrenheit during the past one-hundred years. To us, it does not seem like two degrees
