How climate change is already altering oceans and ice, and what's to come (October Current Event)
Aiden Sherman
The UN has recently released a report on changes in climate and abnormalities in weather, especially in the colder regions of Earth. The report focuses on the outcome of rising global temperatures. One projection shows humanity reducing emissions and temperature rise to only about 2 degrees Celsius. This is the least destructive outcome, as the second projection demonstrates global warming at an excess of 4 degrees. This shows the drastic melting of polar ice sheets, especially in Greenland and Antarctica. Additionally, higher global temperatures are predicted to kill off corals and other aquatic organisms. The higher temperatures also increase growth of algae, which is toxic for the native life where algae blooms form. Other problems with the ocean would include higher acidity, rising water levels and more brutal and common extreme weather, forming in the warmer ocean waters.
Obviously, I find this second prediction to be a bleak future for humanity. Since we have had so many grand warnings about the planet, it is sadly hard for the article to have an impact on many people. I am in no way saying that climate change is not impactful, but the article is similar to many which repeat the same general idea that the earth will not be habitable if we do not take care of it. That being said, we should be glad we have a warning on what is going to happen and how we can fix it. Climate change is arguably the greatest threat facing this generation, but we have the power to stop it if we act on the information we've been given.
Work Cited
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ipcc-how-climate-change-already-altering-oceans-ice-future
Temming, M. (2019, September 25). How climate change is already altering oceans and ice, and what's to come. Retrieved from https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ipcc-how-climate-change-already-altering-oceans-ice-future.
The UN has recently released a report on changes in climate and abnormalities in weather, especially in the colder regions of Earth. The report focuses on the outcome of rising global temperatures. One projection shows humanity reducing emissions and temperature rise to only about 2 degrees Celsius. This is the least destructive outcome, as the second projection demonstrates global warming at an excess of 4 degrees. This shows the drastic melting of polar ice sheets, especially in Greenland and Antarctica. Additionally, higher global temperatures are predicted to kill off corals and other aquatic organisms. The higher temperatures also increase growth of algae, which is toxic for the native life where algae blooms form. Other problems with the ocean would include higher acidity, rising water levels and more brutal and common extreme weather, forming in the warmer ocean waters.
Obviously, I find this second prediction to be a bleak future for humanity. Since we have had so many grand warnings about the planet, it is sadly hard for the article to have an impact on many people. I am in no way saying that climate change is not impactful, but the article is similar to many which repeat the same general idea that the earth will not be habitable if we do not take care of it. That being said, we should be glad we have a warning on what is going to happen and how we can fix it. Climate change is arguably the greatest threat facing this generation, but we have the power to stop it if we act on the information we've been given.
Work Cited
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ipcc-how-climate-change-already-altering-oceans-ice-future
Temming, M. (2019, September 25). How climate change is already altering oceans and ice, and what's to come. Retrieved from https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ipcc-how-climate-change-already-altering-oceans-ice-future.
I agree with your opinion on articles like these being repetitive and redundant. If only humanity would actually act upon fixing the problems that we create rather than complaining and hoping that our problems will go away, maybe we would be able to fix our environment. We can't save the environment on our own, but I feel like humanity won't come together to fix global warming unless there is a huge problem that occurs that effects everyone.
ReplyDeleteI highly agree with the premise of over-exaggerating the climate change issues. I also agree with Caleb's ideas about actually doing something if it is so dire. Although in my own opinion, it isn't near as bad as it is said to be, as actually, during winter time, ice caps are growing much faster than before. Furthermore, if it was really so bad, and so many people with so much money believe it will happen, it should have already been solved, or at least we should see a bigger effort to solve it.
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