Final Paper Progress Prepare: In preparation for this discussion forum, make a

Final Paper Progress
Prepare: In preparation for this discussion forum, make a list of what you learned most throughout the process of researching your final essay topic, as well as difficulties you may have encountered along the way.
Reflect: Think about what you have learned in the development of your research findings on the global societal issue you chose in the Week 1 discussion forum, your proposed solution and its ethical outcomes, and share with your classmates why this specific issues requires further research. Which was:
Climate Change
Climate change is the topic I have chosen for my final paper since this topic raised my concern after it has been in media for a long. One method I used to identify and narrow down this topic was to search on the UAGC Library and other search engine websites (Knight, & Harrison, 2013). Besides, I had also heard some information about climate from the media news since climate change is the global area of concern. Notably, I would like to study more about the issue since many people worldwide, including leaders, are complaining and referring to it as a significant problem on earth.
I will analyze sources if they are scholarly by checking if these sources on climate change are written by experts and qualified researchers or scholars from climate change faculty. I will also check narrowly if the sources’ language is of the climate change discipline (Knight & Harrison, 2013). Besides, I will confirm whether these sources were peer reviewed or refereed by climate change specialists before publication. Lastly, I will check If the sources have full citations for sources.
Knight & Harrison (2013) source have argued that national and international policy initiatives have been implemented to limit future climatic warming to reduce carbon emissions. This source has noted that policymakers have less attention in modeling, monitoring, and managing climatic change impact on the earth surface dynamics such as coasts, rivers, mountains, and glaciers. Grimm et al. (2013) source has argued that the structure and function of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems are being altered by climate change in the US and offering strategies to address these impacts. The changes in seasons are shifting the ecosystem types, process rates, other ecosystems connection, rising temperature and temperature, and acceleration of the hydrologic cycle.
Scholarly sources should be used to support my writing on climate change topics because they will back and support my ideas and provide evidence for my argument (Knight & Harrison, 2013). The sources will also help me write the essay body paragraphs to support the main topics from the thesis statement found in the introduction. Lastly, scholarly sources will also be used to quote the essential findings to assist in writing my argumentative essay.
References:
Grimm, N. B., Chapin III, F. S., Bierwagen, B., Gonzalez, P., Groffman, P. M., Luo, Y., … & Williamson, C. E. (2013). The impacts of climate change on ecosystem structure and function. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 11(9), 474-482.
Knight, J., & Harrison, S. (2013). The impacts of climate change on terrestrial Earth surface systems. Nature Climate Change, 3(1), 24-29.
Write: For this discussion, you will address the following prompts:
Identify the global societal issue you have chosen to research for your Final Paper, an argumentative essay, and explain why further research on this topic is important.
Provide a clear and concise thesis statement that includes a solution to the global societal issue (see Writing a Thesis Statement (Links to an external site.) for assistance).
Explain how this global societal issue impacts a specific population.
Locate a peer-reviewed scholarly source and provide statistical data that you found surprising on the topic.
Your initial post should be at least 250 words in length, which should include a thorough response to each prompt. You are required to provide in-text citations of applicable required reading materials and/or any other outside sources you use to support your claims. Provide full reference entries of all sources cited at the end of your response. Please use correct APA format when writing in-text citations (see In-Text Citation Helper (Links to an external site.)) and references (see Formatting Your References List (Links to an external site.)).