Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Global Climate Change

Emissions significantly increase in the past 100 years. The graph almost looks like an exponential curve
   Global climate change is a real issue. I know that we just touched upon it in our last class, but it sounded like a fun and interesting topic to talk about, so I did some research. It turns out, if most of you didn't know already, that global climate change is when the average temperatures around the world start to increase. CO2 is a main factor in this. I have talked about this before in a previous post. Having drastic changes in the temperature can have devastating effects as far as the weather. The image below shows what scientists document and measure to prove the existence of Global climate change.
Air temperature near surface, humidity, temperature over oceans, sea surface temperature, sea levels, ocean heat content and temperature over land are all increasing, while glaciers, snow cover and sea ice are all decreasing.
The co2 within our atmosphere has had an effect on all of our lives and the problem is not slowing down according to the graph. We need to do something otherwise we will be seeing some serious disasters. Please comment below.
                                                                              
http://www.globalissues.org/article/233/climate-change-and-global-warming-introduction#WhatarethemainindicatorsofClimateChange

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