Believe it or not, climate change is here, real, and affecting the world around us with irreversible consequences caused by humans. At this point, there is a monumental amount of data and scientific agreement on climate change, every single person should be scared of climate change and the effects it is having on the world. The current level of abhorrence at the very thought that humans are causing the climate to change, that the climate even is changing, and that this change is having detrimental effects to humans around the world, should not exist. The evidence and effects of climate change is all around us, and yet we refuse to do anything about it, some of us refuse to even acknowledge and believe it exists. However, whether we chose to
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What happens to ice when it gets warmer? It melts. Arctic ice is decreasing at a rate of 13.4 percent per decade since 1980, while Antarctic land ice is declining by about 100 gigatons per year, and Greenland’s land ice is declining by around 280 gigatons per year (NASA, NSIDC). Water levels have been rising because as the oceans have been getting warmer, they have been expanding. Also, the water from the melting ice has gone into the oceans, causing them to rise 3.5mm since the 1990s. As the oceans try to absorb more carbon dioxide to keep up with what humans release, they become more acidic. This is ocean acidification. “By the end of this century the surface waters of the ocean could be nearly 150 percent more acidic, resulting in a pH that the oceans haven’t experienced for more than 20 million years,” (NOAA) People who don’t believe in climate change are the ones who have access to the most information about it, and how learn more about it through news outlets, but who refuse to believe it because they have never had to deal with the consequences of climate change. Climate change is impacting the world right now. All of the evidence that climate change exists, everything that happens because of it, is our fault. Starting with rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and all of the pollution, lowers the air quality. There's more carbon dioxide, less plants to
What happens to ice when it gets warmer? It melts. Arctic ice is decreasing at a rate of 13.4 percent per decade since 1980, while Antarctic land ice is declining by about 100 gigatons per year, and Greenland’s land ice is declining by around 280 gigatons per year (NASA, NSIDC). Water levels have been rising because as the oceans have been getting warmer, they have been expanding. Also, the water from the melting ice has gone into the oceans, causing them to rise 3.5mm since the 1990s. As the oceans try to absorb more carbon dioxide to keep up with what humans release, they become more acidic. This is ocean acidification. “By the end of this century the surface waters of the ocean could be nearly 150 percent more acidic, resulting in a pH that the oceans haven’t experienced for more than 20 million years,” (NOAA) People who don’t believe in climate change are the ones who have access to the most information about it, and how learn more about it through news outlets, but who refuse to believe it because they have never had to deal with the consequences of climate change. Climate change is impacting the world right now. All of the evidence that climate change exists, everything that happens because of it, is our fault. Starting with rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and all of the pollution, lowers the air quality. There's more carbon dioxide, less plants to