Climate Change

We all know that the worlds climate is changing. There a a few questions we all need answered. Here's my go at it.

 

Is the climate currently changing? Yes, yes it is and one of the most recent studies shows that humans are "Extremely likely" to be the cause. This means that we're 95% of the reason the world is heating up. The average temperature around the world has risen about 1.3oF in only a century.

 

What does the evidence say about the humans impact in the changing climate? Well, we're cause for all the greenhouse gasses, like Carbon Dioxide and methane, when we do things like destroy forests, burn fossil fuels, or industrial processes. The main reason these greenhouse gasses are being released is the burning of fossil fuels that make our energy. That's the big hitter in this equation. What happens is these gasses get trapped in our atmosphere creating a heat blanket around the world.

 

How is climate change going to affect our society and world? The sea level is rising because the ice caps are melting.The heat is causing the oceans to heat up, which is changing the life in the ocean. The temperature change can also affect the rainfall around the world, some areas are getting more or less rain than normal, which drastically changes the environment. Carbon dioxide does not go away easily, so even though the world is changing and trying to reduce greenhouse emissions, the carbon is going to stick around for years to come, meaning that the globe is going to continue to get warmer. Our summers in Riverside are pretty warm, and they're only going to get hotter with the climate changes. It's not just us, either. All around the world the heat is going to get worse, which makes living in these conditions less enjoyable.

 

Did you know this is actually a huge debate? That humans are (or are not) the major cause of global warming? I didn't either, so this is what I found.

 

The argument is, how do we know humans are to blame? How do we know that the climate change isn't natural? How do we predict how much global warming is actually GOING to happen?

 

What do I think will happen in 50 years? I think that the world will still be about the same as it is now, to be honest. Will it be easy? Probably not, and it's probably going to be terrible. I mean, I know I already hate the summers here. I also believe that if we continue with the changes with our greenhouse gas emission that have already been started, we have a much better chance of keeping things the way they are. It's taken a century for the world to raise 1 degree, in 50 years I don't think the change will affect us as much as we're lead to believe.