Climate Change
What is Climate change? Climate change is the changing of the environments of our earth as we know it. Like how recently there have been massive fires in Australia and then torrential rain and floods and more fires.
I will start off by explaining some key facts about climate change. One thing that people forget is that climate change is not all man-made and some of it is natural and would have happened without humans ever being here. But I am not saying that all of the climate change is natural but quite the opposite. The majority of it is man-made from things like greenhouse gases. The global temperature rose by 1.62degrees celsius ever since the beginning of the industrial age. The majority of this happened around 1970 and onwards. This is not the same everywhere as it is warming up about three times as fast around the poles.
There is a satellite ship up in space that NASA has sent up called the Aqua. This satellite observes The rising temperatures of the Earth including water temperature cycling of water, evaporation, ice levels, water levels, and more. Aqua was launched on 4, May 2002. This particular satellite has six different instruments that observe the things listed above. Aqua was first thought to last about six years but has definitely exceeded that timeline. Currently, four of its six instruments are still functioning at a high quality. The fifth instrument still operates but produces reduced quality. The last instrument lasted about 9 months of high-quality data then failed in February 2003.
Most of us have heard about the shrinking ice sheets. The two most affected areas are Greenland and Antarctica. NASA has launched a program to record the amount of ice lost. They did this between 1993 and 2016. Its findings are that Greenland lost an average of 286 billion tons of ice per year. Antarctica, on the other hand, lost about 127 billion tons of ice. The rate of Antarctica ice mass loss has recently tripled over the last decade or so. But there are also other effects such as the ocean’s top 700 metres temperature rising around 0.4 degrees Fahrenheit. But there are more like glaciers retreating, decreased snow cover, sea-level rise, the decline in the amount of Arctic sea ice, extreme weather events, Many animal habitats getting destroyed or wiping out entire species, and ocean acidification.
To finish off I would like to say what I think about Climate Change. I think that Climate Change is something that should be addressed seriously and people should really take care of what they do with their waste for example and together we could fix this big mess. Climate change also has a positive side in my opinion. This can be bringing people together and teaching them how to dispose of their waste responsibly and care for the environment in which we live and is so important to our survival.
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Global temperature measury thingy
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