A Summary of “Man-Made Climate Change Was Factor in 2012 Extreme Weather”

In the article,  http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/9/7/scientists-link 2012extremeweathertomanmadeclimatechange.html “Man-Made Climatic Change Was Factor In 2012 Extreme Weather,” Lewis (2013) explained that extreme weather is mostly as a result of man-made climatic change, this was observed from various extreme weather studies around the world. . According to a report in 2012, the United States experienced some of the most severe weather conditions that it hasn’t experienced since the Dust Bowl years of 1934 and 1936,” where the condition resulted in low or even zero crop yields, reduced livestock inventory, increased food prices and direct human death which were all attributed to factors such as increased surface heating due to human pollution and more specifically, greenhouse-gas emissions . The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently forecasted worse weather conditions to come in the future which will be as a result of global warming. Scientists say the will provide information to help government and individuals manage future weather risks such as average temperatures which increased more than 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit over the last 100 years. According to Environmental Protection Agency this increasing temperature could lead to reduction in crop yields, increase rainfall that will cause flooding and an increase in area burned by wildfire. The level and recurrence of future climate change depends on how frequent the greenhouse gas emissions increases in the atmosphere, and how strong the temperature, and rise in sea levels respond to expected increases in emissions as inferred by the report . 

 In my opinion, extreme weather causes by natural more than  human activity, but the human activity make to the extreme weather powerful. The article is not talk about specific the main reasons. Also, the writer must write a lot of information about the topic.

 A Summary of http://healthland.time.com/2011/08/30/the-math-gender-gap-nurture-can-trump-nature/. In the article “The Math Gender Gap: Nurture Trumps Nature,” Szalavitz (2011) discusses a study that has shown that culture can be responsible for differences in gender performance. Research was done that showed that there are not enough women professors in big universities, and we need to know why. A new researcher Moshe Hoffman researched about two tribes in India to prove if culture controls different gender performances in math. The tribes are same in almost everything but have different cultures. The Karbi has a culture where men control everything, but the Khasi is different because there is equal between men and women for education and jobs. It is difficult for women to have a good future in the Karbi because men always say that they are not smart enough, and the women can only listen to what the men tell them. On the other hand, women are very important in the Khasi because they control the house bills and money issues. When Hoffman tested the tribes, Karbi men were better than women because they had more education, but the scores were the same for men and women in the Khasi tribe because they had equal education. Overall, the study showed that culture does affect math performance between men and women. Rebecca Goldin says that the test is good and it proves that. She also said that we don’t know if biology makes a difference, and we learned from this study that we cannot say that culture is not important (Szalavitz, 2011).