How can such a small increase in temperature be so brutally harmful to our environment?
To help put into perspective the effects that global warming and climate change has on our our planet, we can educate ourselves with reliable resources such as National Geographic. According to this clip, the increase of even one degree creates a tipping point for our planet. It is not only an increase in temperature, but the PACE.
Although, I do believe this is a possible event. I think there is more we can do to make sure this does not happen. The effect of a tipping point could be so harmful to a majority of human civilization and I'm not sure who would actually survive such a drastic change on our earth. While unpredictable changes could occur, the likelihood is lessened if we take conscious action now.
Somebody explained a bit, recently - that there is only so much CO2 etc that we can emit into the atmosphere before we cause enough warming to lock ourselves into a tipping point. Then we end up with a different world than we have right now. Those types of changes are very difficult to predict.
ReplyDeleteWe’re currently going past the 2°C past the average global increase. If we go past 2°C Green land will melt irreversibly which will increase ocean levels so much that it’ll drown a bunch of coastal cities. If we go a bit past 2°C the secondary permafrost will melt irreversibly.
We’re already at 0.6°C hotter than pre-industrial times. So a small buffer defines the amount we’re able to release into the atmosphere - before we put enough into the atmosphere that we lock ourselves into passing a tipping point.
Science is changing rapidly on this but roughly it’s thought that the entire world needs to become climate-neutral by 2050 – given what has already been put in and the rates that we’re increasing. And, in order to get down to zero by 2050, we also need to peak by 2016 (10 years).