10 Important Climate Change Facts | CSS, PMS Notes in PDF

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1) Temperatures are breaking records around the world:

2) There is no scientific debate about the reality of climate change:
3) Arctic sea ice and glaciers are melting:
4) Sea levels are rising at their fastest rate in 2,000 years:
5) Climate change will lead to a refugee crisis:
6) Two-thirds of the Great Barrier Reef has been damaged as a result of climate
change:
7) The ocean is 26 percent more acidic than before the Industrial Revolution:
8) Global flooding could triple by 2030:
9) More greenhouse gases are in our atmosphere than any time in human history:
10) Earth could warm by six degrees this century:

1) Temperatures are breaking records around the world:

The 21st century has seen the most temperature records broken in recorded history. 2016
was the hottest year on record since 1880, according to NASA, with average temperatures
measuring 1.78 degrees Fahrenheit (0.99 degrees Celsius) warmer than the mid-20th
century mean Since the 1950s, every continent has warmed substantially. NASA’s latest
visualizations, above, make that reality stark.

2) There is no scientific debate about the reality of climate change:

Multiple studies show that a massive 97 per cent of researchers believe global warming is
happening But climate change is considered only the third most serious issue facing the
world by the world’s population, behind international terrorism and poverty, hunger and the
lack of drinking water

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3) Arctic sea ice and glaciers are melting:

Arctic sea ice coverage has shrunk every decade since 1979 by 3.5 to 4.1 per cent. Glaciers
have also been in retreat, including in major mountain ranges like the Alps, Himalayas and
Rockies. In 2017, Arctic sea ice reached a record low for the third straight running

4) Sea levels are rising at their fastest rate in 2,000 years:

Levels are currently rising at their fastest rate for more than 2,000 years and the current
rate of change is 3.4mm a year. In July, a massive crack in the Larson C ice shelf finally gave
way sending a 5,800 square km section of ice into the ocean. The newly formed iceberg is
nearly four times the size of London.

5) Climate change will lead to a refugee crisis:

An average of 21.5 million people have been forcibly displaced since 2008 due to climate
changed-related weather hazards, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees.

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6) Two-thirds of the Great Barrier Reef has been damaged as a result of

climate change:

In April 2017, it was revealed that two-thirds of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has been
severely damaged by coral bleaching. As a result, the coral loses its vibrant appearance,
turns white and becomes weaker. Scientists say it will be hard for the damaged coral to
recover.

7) The ocean is 26 percent more acidic than before the Industrial

Revolution:

The pH of ocean surface water has decreased by 0.1, which makes them 26 percent more
acidic now than at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. The waters are more acidic
now that at any other point in the last 300,000 years.

8) Global flooding could triple by 2030:

The number of people exposed to flooding each year is at risk of tripling from 21 million to
54 million by 2030, This would result in the economic costs of flooding increasing from £65
billion to around £340 billion.

9) More greenhouse gases are in our atmosphere than any time in

human history:

The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reached the milestone of 400 parts
per million for the first time in 2015 and surged again to new records in 2016

10) Earth could warm by six degrees this century:

The Earth’s temperature will continue to rise so long as we continue to produce greenhouse
gases. The estimates for how much temperature will increase by 2100 range from two
degrees Celsius to as much as six degrees Celsius.

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