Climate Change
| The debate over climate change continues, but for the team at LearnStuff.com, the evidence they have gathered points in one direction. They have compiled their research in a new infographic that does not look too well for our future. |
While many continue to debate the reality and effects of climate change, the evidence does point in the direction that human activity is having an enormous impact.
Since the Industrial Age spurred the increasing usage of fossil fuels for energy production, the weather has been warming slowly. Since 1880, the temperature of the earth has increased by 1 degree Celsius.
Although 72% of media outlets report on global warming with a skeptical air, the overwhelming majority of scientists believe that the extreme weather of the last decade is at least partially caused by global warming.
Storms, droughts, and floods are causing death and economic issues for people all over the world, as they always have been, but substantial alterations to the earth's temperature may amplify these effects.
Evidence also indicates that the face of the Earth is changing because of warming trends. The ice caps of the Arctic are noticeably shrinking, the ice cap of Mt. Kilimanjaro alone has shrunk by 85% in the last hundred years, and the sea levels are rising at the rate of about 3 millimeters per year because of all the melting ice.
Carbon dioxide levels increased 38% since the Industrial Revolution, arguably mainly because of humans, methane levels have increased 148%, nitrous oxide is up 15% – and the list goes on and on.
For those who believe we are moving into an age of Abundance built on the science and technology of the Singularity, understanding and controlling global climate (on this world and others) will be one of the features. (Part of that understanding may be that the Earth's climate is always in a state of flux). For that to occur though, we might have to stumble past some mistakes of our past and the present.
Check out LearnStuff.com's infographic below the break to see what else the team at LearnStuff.com suggests climate change is affecting.
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There are some interesting debates (I do not know if they are interesting or not, but participating in those, gave me an anthropic bias here) regarding the truths of global warming. Some argued that the temperature anamoly is of natural factors. I have then studied the complete literature, reviewed data and information from disparate sources, and found that there are these weather cycles called as DO cycles Dansgaard–Oeschger cycles, with a period of 1500 years, that contribute changes to the global weather. And if this is a fact, we should find historical evidences for these events as they happen. The I looked into the historical geology, found that this should have happened 25 times in the holocene. And evidences are recovered for 20 of these events conclusively. But not denying the anthropic co2 and global warming also plays a part. And more over this decade recorded the stabilisation of the global temperatures. it is unknown if this is a natural stabilisation program of the nature or is it by human efforts is non decisive so far.
ReplyDeleteHow is the air more acidic? Do they mean oceans?
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