Our Changing Climate

23 Aug 2017

Food, fuel, electricity … Modern world needs energy but our way of getting the energy changes the world. Can we find a better way? Climate change is not a scam or a scientific conspiracy, it is real.

it’s here and we’re the cause of it.

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It confirms what we’ve known for decades:

-Climate is changing

-Humans are responsible

-The risks are serious

-The time to act is now

 

 

1950: Year when atmospheric CO2 levels broke records from the previous 400,000 years, sharply rising and continuing to grow.

8 inches: Rise in global sea levels over the last century. The rate of rise has nearly doubled in the last two decades.

16: Number of record-breaking hottest years since 2000. 2016 was the hottest year yet.

1.5 degrees: The average worldwide temperature increase in Fahrenheit compared to a century ago.

400 parts per million: Average concentration since 2016 of CO2 in the atmosphere, compared to 275 PPM for past 400,000 years.

19th century: When the heat-trapping nature of CO2 was first demonstrated.

30 percent: The increase in acidity of the world’s oceans. Sources: NASA and EPA

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