21 Striking Facts For Nature Climate Change War
Climate change rapidly, the ocean temperature is rising, our global ecosystem is out of balance. Therefore, You must see these Striking Images Of Climate Change. So, We Need To Act NOW!
Let’s Keep Nature!
Lost Penguins
Sea ice is melting rapidly, especially in the Arctic. So, Scientists at the University of Leeds have determined that global warming contributes to the loss of a tremendous amount of sea ice. But, enough to equal 1.5 million icebergs the size of the Titanic every year due to Climate Change.
In addition, Melting icebergs and melting ice caps are causing sea levels to rise, in some areas significantly. Also, Rising sea levels are expected to cause flooding and erosion in low-lying, coastal cities. Moreover, other species in danger of becoming extinct!
Modern Crab Trap
Meanwhile, A simple walk on any beach, anywhere, and the plastic waste spectacle is present. All over the world, the statistics are ever-growing, staggeringly.
Therefore, Tons of plastic debris is discarded every year, everywhere, polluting lands, rivers, coasts, beaches, and oceans. Which by definition are waste that can vary in size from large containers, fishing nets to microscopic plastic pellets or even particles
Distortion
The global primary production of plastic was 270 million tonnes in 2013. However, global plastic waste was 275 million tonnes. So, it did exceed annual primary production through wastage of plastic from previous years!
In addition, plastic waste generated in coastal regions is most at risk of entering the oceans. For instance, in 2015 coastal plastic waste, generated within 50 km of the coastline amounted to 99.5 million tonnes.
Rain-forests Funeral
Half the world’s rainforests have been destroyed in a century, at this rate you could see them vanish altogether in your lifetime! We must take action so that these forests, plants, and animals and us humans who depend on them continue to live.
In addition, Deforestation is in fact considered the second major driver of climate change (more than the entire global transport sector). Also, responsible for 18-25% of global annual carbon dioxide emissions.
New Olympic Sport – Garbage Surfing
The problem with plastics is relatively new but serious. John Hocevar, marine biologist and oceans campaign director for Greenpeace USA, told ABC News. The mass production of plastic emerged in the 1950s and has continued to expand exponentially ever since, and almost all of the plastic that has ever been made “is still with us here today,” Hocevar said.
Nothing we use for a few minutes should be allowed to pollute our rivers and oceans for hundreds of years—especially when we don’t really need it. That’s why we’re calling on more than 25 states to ban take-out foam cups and containers.
Have You Ever Saw a Crying Iceberg?!?
Glaciers around the world can range from ice that is several hundred to several thousand years old and provide a scientific record of how climate has changed over time. Through their study, we gain valuable information about the extent to which the planet is rapidly warming. They provide scientists a record of how climate has changed over time.
Glaciers around the world can range from ice that is several hundred to several thousand years old and provide a scientific record of how climate has changed over time. Through their study, we gain valuable information about the extent to which the planet is rapidly warming. They provide scientists a record of how climate has changed over time.
Excessive Oil Fields on Steroids
The world derives over a third of its total energy production from oil, more than any other source by far. As a result, the countries that control the world’s oil reserves often have disproportionate geopolitical and economic power.
Moreover, the “BP Statistical Review of World Energy” to identify the 15 countries with the most proven oil reserves. The countries on this list span five continents and control anywhere from 12.8 billion barrels of oil to 303.2 billion barrels of oil.
Melting Decade
Meanwhile, Everywhere on Earth ice is changing. Also, The famed snows of Kilimanjaro have melted more than 80 percent since 1912. Glaciers in the Garhwal Himalaya in India are retreating so fast that researchers believe that most central and eastern Himalayan glaciers could virtually disappear by 2035.
In addition, Arctic sea ice has thinned significantly over the past half-century, and its extent has declined by about 10 percent in the past 30 years.
Next Generations…
The first synthetic plastic, Bakelite, was produced in 1907, marking the beginning of the global plastics industry. However, rapid growth in global plastic production was not realized until the 1950s.
Over the next 65 years, the annual production of plastics increased nearly 200-fold to 381 million tonnes in 2015. For context, this is roughly equivalent to the mass of two-thirds of the world population.
Recycle Plastic Waste!
Scientists are still documenting the scope of plastic pollution and investigating its effects. But for decades we’ve known that one of the worst forms of plastic pollution is polystyrene foam, the kind used in foam cups and take-out containers, what most of us call Styrofoam.
Polystyrene foam breaks apart easily, but it persists in the environment in tiny particles—and every bit of it ever made is still out there and could continue to threaten wildlife for hundreds of years to come. Also, The materials never completely disintegrate, but rather break down into microplastics, particles less than 5 millimeters in diameter, that continue to be distributed throughout the earth.
Missing Puzzle
NASA’s repeated laser altimeter readings show the edges of Greenland’s ice sheet shrinking. Therefore, Spring freshwater ice breakup in the Northern Hemisphere now occurs nine days earlier than it did 150 years ago, and autumn freeze-up ten days later.
So, Thawing permafrost has caused the ground to subside more than 15 feet (4.6 meters) in parts of Alaska. Also, From the Arctic to Peru, from Switzerland to the equatorial glaciers of Man Jaya in Indonesia, massive ice fields, monstrous glaciers, and sea ice are disappearing, fast.
The Black Hole Is HERE
According to WHO, In 2017, 71% of the global population (5.3 billion people) used a safely managed drinking-water service. Therefore, one located on-premises, available when needed, and free from contamination. In addition, 90% of the global population (6.8 billion people) used at least a basic service. However, 785 million people lack even a basic drinking-water service, including 144 million people who are dependent on surface water.
Globally, at least 2 billion people use a drinking water source contaminated with feces. Also, Contaminated water can transmit diseases such as diarrhea, cholera, dysentery, typhoid, and polio. Therefore, Contaminated drinking water is estimated to cause 485 000 diarrhoeal deaths each year. By 2025, half of the world’s population will be living in water-stressed areas. In the least developed countries, 22% of health care facilities have no water service, 21% no sanitation service, and 22% no waste management service.
Grinnell Glacier (SAD) Overlook
“If we don’t have it, we don’t need it,” pronounces Daniel Fagre as we throw on our backpacks. We’re armed with crampons, ice axes, rope, GPS receivers, and bear spray to ward off grizzlies.
However, we’re trudging toward Sperry Glacier in Glacier National Park, Montana. I fall in step with Fagre and two other research scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey Global Change Research Program. They’re doing what they’ve been doing for more than a decade: measuring how the park’s storied glaciers are melting.
L O N E L Y
The melting of Antarctic ice sheets is one of the most visceral consequences of climate change. But, the full extent of their impact on the cycle remains mostly unknown.
Now, researchers from the US and South Korea have run climate simulations that include the “iceberg effect”. In addition, they found that melting icebergs could play a significant role in slowing warming in the Southern Hemisphere.
Domino Effects
Carbon dioxide concentrations are rising mostly because of the fossil fuels that people are burning for energy. Fossil fuels like coal and oil contain carbon that plants pulled out of the atmosphere through photosynthesis over the span of many millions of years.Therefore, we are returning that carbon to the atmosphere in just a few hundred years.
In fact, the last time the atmospheric CO2 amounts were this high was more than 3 million years ago, when the temperature was 2°–3°C (3.6°–5.4°F) higher than during the pre-industrial era, and sea level was 15–25 meters (50–80 feet) higher than today.
Smoking Fields
Natural increases in CO2 concentrations have periodically warmed Earth’s temperature during ice age cycles over the past million years or more. However, The warm episodes (interglacials) began with a small increase in sunlight. Also, due to a tiny wobble in Earth’s axis of rotation or in the path of its orbit around the Sun. Moreover, That little bit of extra sunlight caused a little bit of warming. As the oceans warmed, they outgassed CO2 —like a can of soda going flat in the heat of a summer day. Therefore, The extra CO2 in the atmosphere amplified the initial warming.
CO2 is a greenhouse gas: a gas that absorbs and radiates heat. Warmed by sunlight, Earth’s land and ocean surface continuously radiate thermal infrared energy (heat). Unlike oxygen or nitrogen (which make up most of our atmosphere), greenhouse gases absorb that heat and release it gradually over time, like bricks in a fireplace after the fire goes out. Moreover, Without this natural greenhouse effect, Earth’s average annual temperature would be below freezing instead of close to 60°F. But, increases in greenhouse gases have tipped the Earth’s energy budget out of balance. Also, trapping additional heat and raising Earth’s average temperature.
Lack Of Ice
Wildlife crime is big business. Run by dangerous international networks, wildlife and animal parts are trafficked much like illegal drugs and arms.
By its very nature, it is almost impossible to obtain reliable figures for the value of the illegal wildlife trade. Experts at TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network, estimate that it runs into billions of dollars.
Population Density
The increased size of urban areas in terms of their population and their land consumption has intensified adverse urban environmental impacts. The increased capacity of the human race provokes adverse environmental change on a truly global scale.
Moreover, in the last two decades all over the globe rapid changes in technology and in the re-location of the population from rural to urban areas have altered local natural environments beyond recognition, now the global environment is at risk.
Arctic Monkeys
Interestingly, this conclusion goes against a previous study that found that melting glaciers actually speed up further melting in a vicious cycle. But, the team says, both could be different parts of the same complex system, and they may even roughly cancel each other out.
The main conclusion is that melting icebergs are a major factor that may not yet be under consideration in many models. That includes the latest assessment by the IPCC for Climate Change.
War Of Leather
The world is dealing with an unprecedented spike in illegal wildlife trade, threatening to overturn decades of conservation gains. Ivory estimated to weigh more than 23 metric tons—a figure that represents 2,500 elephants—was seized in the 13 largest seizures of illegal ivory in 2011. Poaching threatens the last of our wild tigers that number around 3,890.
Some examples of illegal wildlife trade are well known, such as poaching of elephants for ivory and tigers for their skins and bones. However, countless other species are similarly overexploited, from marine turtles to timber trees. Not all wildlife trade is illegal. Wild plants and animals from tens of thousands of species are caught or harvested from the wild and then sold legitimately as food, pets, ornamental plants, leather, tourist ornaments and medicine.
Deadly Dust
Breathing in polluted air can be very bad for our health. Long-term exposure to air pollution has been associated with diseases of the heart and lungs, cancers and other health problems. That’s why it’s important for us to monitor air pollution.
“Most air pollution comes from energy use and production,” says John Walke, director of the Clean Air Project. “Burning fossil fuels releases gases and chemicals into the air.” And in an especially destructive feedback loop, air pollution not only contributes to climate change but is also exacerbated by it. “Air pollution in the form of carbon dioxide and methane raises the earth’s temperature,” Walke says.
In conclusion, these Striking Images Of Climate Change must wake you up.