California, called blessed land with a warm temperature and abundant sunshine, has been suffering from drought for over four years. Forest fire burnt almost 542 km2 in Sequoia National Park in California from last summer. The public is prohibited from entering the mountain path. It is known as the worst forest fire in the history because it destroyed three times than last year and victims are about twenty thousands. The drought, because of 40℃ of high temperature, often makes forest fire. In addition to the continuous drought, geographic features and the lack of fuel for extinguishing equipments make the fire hard to put out.
For another example, Porterville city provides 19,000L of water to seven communal reservoir every week and citizens get water from it. Since the water supply has stopped and the underground water has dried up for several months, livelihood meets difficulties. Furthermore, Water Cop, the police who monitors the situation of wasting water or using water, is created.
The eastern part of U.S. was devastated by the flood last summer. Also there was a heavy snow in April last year in the East of U.S. and Canada has recorded a serious heavy snowfall by which almost thirty people died.
As the problem became serious, the US president, Barack Obama raised up the problem of climate change to the international society and required some measures. However the presidential candidate of the Republican party, Donald Trump contradicted the president Obama’s idea about climate change.
Also existing climate change skeptics insist that climate change didn’t occur because of human activities but it’s just a periodic natural phenomenon. However it is true that average temperature of the Earth is rising and the problem is that some scientists have hastily concluded that the emission of carbon dioxide is the main cause of climate change. At this point, the investigation about Earth’s history and geological features are needed more than before.
As we can see the counterattack of climate change in U.S., not only forest fire but also drought, heavy rain and flood will increase in a close year.