I’ve often wondered, as probably many of you may have if climate change and global warming are a real problem? Could it be that they are something politicians or environmental lobbyists made up or use to get certain laws passed or to get project funding?
Is the climate crisis / Global Warming real? I’ve researched and read about both sides. See what you decide by reading further and finding the answer you are looking for.
IS THIS WHAT IS HAPPENING?
Is the climate crisis real?
- The earth has experienced climate changes from the very beginning. It’s just a natural cycle.
- The earth’s climate has had seven cycles of glacial advance and retreat in the last 650,000 years.
- Most climate changes have been the result of a very small variation in the orbit of the Earth. That changed the amount of solar radiation the earth received.
- Approximately 11,700 years ago the last ice age ended abruptly. This was the beginning of the modern climate era and of human civilization.
IS THE CLIMATE CRISIS / GLOBAL WARMING REAL TODAY?
ACCORDING TO NASA
- Global warming is the long-term heating of Earth’s climate system observed since the pre-industrial period (between 1850 and 1900).
- It is due to human activities, primarily fossil fuel (oil, gas, coal) burning. These activities increase heat-trapping greenhouse gas levels in Earth’s atmosphere”. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.
Interesting, but where’s the evidence?
- Evidence of global warming comes from ocean sediments, coral reefs, tree rings, and layers of sedimentary rocks. It shows that the current warming trend is ten times faster than the average rate of ice-age-recovery warming.
- The scientists’ conclusion is that the carbon dioxide that is caused by human activity is increasing more than 250 times faster than it did from natural sources after the last ice age.
NASA SATELLITES HELP MODEL THE FUTURE OF CLIMATE
August 25, 2021
- It is really important to see how our atmosphere, land, and ocean are changing over time.
- NASA has flown many instruments to track greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide and other gases). The readings show how greenhouse gases affect the transfer of infrared energy through the atmosphere.
- The conclusion is that higher levels of greenhouse gases cause the Earth to warm.
The colored shapes in this graph show how much each greenhouse gas contributes to the total energy imbalance in Earth’s atmosphere. Together, these gases trapped nearly 3.2 extra Watts of heat energy per square meter in 2020 compared to 1750.
3.28084 feet = (1) meter 10.7639 square feet = (1) square meter Credit NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio+
United Nations: “Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns, mainly caused by human activities, especially the burning of fossil fuels.”
- Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas that traps heat 28 times more effectively than carbon dioxide over a 100-year timescale.
- Concentrations of methane have increased by more than 150% since industrial activities and intensive agriculture began.
- After carbon dioxide, methane was responsible for about 23% of climate change in the 20th century.
This time series shows the Arctic sea ice extent in millions of square kilometers over the past roughly 1,500 years.
The vertical axis starts at 8, not 0, to better show year-to-year variations.
Credit: Climate.gov image adapted from Figure 3 in “Paleoceanographic Perspectives on Arctic Ocean Change” in the 2017 Arctic Report Card. Original data from Kinnard et al., 2011.
- This data is taken from the 2017 issue of NOAA’s Arctic Report Card: Research shows that the extent and rate of sea ice decline in the Arctic is unprecedented over at least the past 1,500 years.
- Scientists use sediment/ice cores, tree rings, and fossilized shells of ocean creatures to figure out sea ice extent far back in time.
OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE
IS THE CLIMATE CRISIS – GLOBAL WARMING REAL?
- The evidence is overwhelming.
Climate crisis / global warming is real and is threatening our planet and our very existence.
IS WIND AND SOLAR THE ANSWER?
- Why renewables can’t save the planet | Michael Shellenberger | TEDxDanubia
HELP SAVE OUR PLANET FROM CLIMATE CHANGE – GLOBAL WARMING
Credit: Jack Harris July 30, 2021
WHAT CAN YOU DO PERSONALLY
Save our planet from climate change / global warming
- Recycle.
- Properly dispose of oil, paint, batteries, medical waste, and old medicines.
- Volunteer to help clean up rivers and beaches.
- Plant a tree or support tree-planting programs.
- Become a beekeeper (hobby) or support beekeeping.
- Plant a vegetable garden.
- Make your next vehicle a hybrid or electric vehicle.
- Ride a bike or walk when possible instead of driving.
- Vote for environmentally conscientious political leaders.
- Educate your children about the environment.
- Teach others about the environment.
EVENTS ATTRIBUTED TO CLIMATE CHANGE – GLOBAL WARMING
FROM 2022 BACK TO 2010
Do you remember any of these events?
2022
- La Niña, climate change, and bad luck: the climate context of Colorado’s Marshall Fire
- Wet, then dry extremes contributed to devastating Marshall Fire in Colorado
- NOAA-led drought task force concludes current Southwest drought is a preview of coming attractions
2021
- A late-summer heatwave and rain at Greenland’s summit
- Western drought 2021 spotlight: Arizona
- Preliminary analysis concludes Pacific Northwest heat wave was a 1,000-year event…hopefully
- A foot of rain causes flash flood emergency in Louisiana during mid-May 2021
- Record-breaking June 2021 heatwave impacts the U.S. West
- Astounding heat obliterates all-time records across the Pacific Northwest and Western Canada in June 2021
- Torrential spring rains lead to flash flooding around Nashville at end of March 2021
2020
- Over a million acres burned in California in second half of August 2020
- A Colorado summer: Drought, wildfires and smoke in 2020
- Larger-than-average dead zone forecast for Gulf of Mexico in summer 2020
- Drought emerges across the Pacific Northwest in spring 2020
- Spring 2020 brings rare ozone “hole” to the Arctic
- Catastrophic wildfires in southeastern Australia in 2019-20
2019
- Flash drought engulfs the U.S. Southeast in September 2019
- Europe’s rogue heatwave melts Greenland
- High temperatures smash all-time records in Alaska in early July 2019
- Heat wave broils the U.S. Southeast over Memorial Day weekend 2019
- River flooding inundates the Northern Plains in spring 2019
2018
- Wild weather on the West Coast in February 2018
- Early March 2019 tornado outbreak ravages parts of U.S. Southeast
- Hot, dry summer and slow start to wet season primed California for November 2018 fires
- Alaska’s 2018 early fall extremes
- Dry 2018 water year comes to an end in California
- A hot, dry summer has led to drought in Europe in 2018
- Harmful algal blooms linger in parts of southern Florida in July and August 2018
- A soggy summer for the Mid-Atlantic in 2018
- Extreme overnight heat in California and the Great Basin in July 2018Strong winds whip up deadly wildfires in Greece in late July 2018
- Dust from the Sahara Desert stretches across the tropical Atlantic Ocean in late June/early July 2018
- Day Zero water shut-off deferred in Cape Town
- Wildfires burn through southwestern Colorado in June 2018
- Alberto and Aletta become the first named storms of the 2018 hurricane seasons
- Torrential rains bring epic flash floods in Maryland in late May 2018
- Tropical cyclone makes landfall in Somalia in May 2018
- Oklahoma tornado drought to start 2018
- Onslaught of rain soaks California
- February 2018 heatwave across the Far North
- Record warmth in February 2018
- Winter so far has people out west asking, Where’s the snow?
- Day Zero approaches in Cape Town
- Nor’easters pummel the U.S. Northeast in late winter 2018
- Seine River overflows in Paris
- Winter storm brings destructive mudslides to California in January 2018
2017
- Dry Southwest still waiting on winter in January 2017
- Mount Agung erupts in Indonesia: Is it a climate event?
- December wildfires scorch southern California in 2017
- Smog descends on India and Pakistan in mid-November 2017
- King tides cause flooding in Florida in fall 2017
- Water rationing in South Africa’s second-largest city after multi-year drought
- Former hurricane Ophelia batters Ireland
- Climate conditions behind deadly October 2017 wildfires in California
- Reviewing Hurricane Harvey’s catastrophic rain and flooding
- Massive fires burning across the West in September 2017
- Greenland: A land of ice and…other stuff
- Wildfire still burning in Greenland tundra in mid-August 2017
- First hurricane of the 2017 Atlantic season hits Mexico
- Heat wave scorches the Pacific Northwest
- Wildfires burn in British Columbia
- Exceptional drought in Northern Plains in July 2017
- Monsoon causes deadly flash flood in Arizona
- Early summer heat wave in Europe
- Hot temperatures roast the western United States
- Torrential rains swamp southern Florida, make serious dent in drought
- Cyclone Mora hits vulnerable Bangladesh
- Tropical Storm Adrian kicks off the 2017 eastern Pacific hurricane season
- Cyclone Donna churns in the South Pacific
- Heavy rains in early May lead to flood emergency in Montréal
- Tornados and blizzards. It’s spring across the Great Plains!
- Spring drought conditions expand in Florida
- Second year of widespread bleaching underway on the Great Barrier Reef
- Climate conditions aren’t solely to blame for current famine in Africa
- A superbloom of wildflowers overtakes California’s southeastern deserts in March 2017
- Late winter wildfires burn through Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas in March 2017
- Heavy summer rains flood Peru
- February’s Storm Doris weather bombs Great Britain
- Flooding concerns at Oroville Dam as water levels reach capacity
- Soaking rains and massive snows pile up in California in January 2017
- January 2017 brings the heat down under in Australia
- Scientists link to toxic algal blooms along U.S. West Coast to warm waters in the Pacific
- The paradox of lake effect snow: global warming could bring the Great Lakes more of it, at least for a while
2016
- Deadly, record-breaking hurricane hits Central America in November
- The mid-October windstorm in the Pacific Northwest
- Record-breaking hurricane Matthew causes devastation
- How can we call something a thousand-year storm if we don’t have a thousand years of climate observations?
- Northwest Passage clear of ice again in 2016
- Arctic sea ice ties for second lowest in 2016
- Global warming increased risk, intensity of Louisiana’s extreme rain event
- Major Hurricanes Madeline and Lester poised to give Hawaii a close call
- August 2016 extreme rain and floods along the Gulf Coast
- 2016 eastern Pacific hurricane season makes up for lost time
- New Eastern Hemisphere heat record? The detective work behind world record weather
- ‘Thousand-year’ downpour led to deadly West Virginia floods
- Scorching heat bakes the Southwest in mid-June 2016 – Part two
- Scorching heat bakes the Southwest in mid-June 2016
- Atmospheric ‘Groundhog Day’ behind flooding in France and Germany
- Will the Great Barrier Reef recover?
- April 2016 snow cover did no favors for Fort McMurray fire
- Lake effect snow buries parts of the Great Lakes in December 2016
- Climate connections to Fort McMurray fire
- Great Barrier Reef suffers through record-breaking bleaching event
- Greenland melt season off to very early start
- Drought in the Pacific
- “Maya Express” behind Gulf Coast soaking
- Where, oh where, has Alaska’s winter gone?
- Huge waves means it’s time to surf in Hawai’
- Tropical Cyclone Winston causes devastation in Fiji, a tropical paradise
- A not so rainy season: Drought in southern Africa in January 2016
- In case you missed it, there was an Atlantic hurricane in January
- Rains return to California to start 2016
2015
- California closes Dungeness and razor clam fisheries due to algal toxin
- An upper-level low does a box step over US Southwest, brings flooding to Southern California
- Thousand-year deluge in South Carolina
- Survey photos reveal damage of this year’s global coral bleaching event
- This summer’s West Coast algal bloom was unusual. What would usual look like?
- Wait, a hurricane formed where in the Atlantic?
- Central Pacific hurricane party: three’s company
- Stay out of the scum, warns NOAA’s latest bulletin on Lake Erie’s Harmful Algal Bloom
- Late July’s stupefying heat indexes in southwest Iran
- Record-setting bloom of toxic algae in North Pacific
- Record-breaking algal bloom expands across the North Pacific
- A wet several days for southern California
- Wildfires burn up western North America
- Summer heat wave arrives in Europ
- Hyperactive start to eastern Pacific hurricane season
- India heat wave kills thousands
- Flood disaster in Texas and Oklahoma
- Alaska sets new record for earliest day with temperatures in the 90s
- Deluge inundates Oklahoma City with third-wettest day in its history
- Flooding in the Atacama Desert: How did that happen?
- Flooding in Chile’s Atacama Desert after years’ worth of rain in one day
- Quiet March in Tornado Alley
- Twin tropical cyclones in western Pacific
- “Winter” in Alaska
- It’s supposed to be the rainy season in Brazil, so where has all the water gone?
- Winter can’t quite quit New England, won’t give the West a second glance
- Southeastern Africa’s monsoon goes from dry to deluge
- For Malaysia and Thailand, monsoon plus MJO equals disaster
- Southeastern Africa’s topsy-turvy monsoon
- Devastating monsoon flooding from Sri Lanka to northwest Australia
- It poured in California in December. Can we stop talking about the drought?
- Record September warmth for Alaska maritime locations
2014
- U.S. temperature extremes and the polar jet stream
- Record-breaking rain in Arizona
- Spring climate plays major role in Lake Erie algae blooms
- 2014 temperature extremes: U.S. runs hot and cold
- Groundwater: California’s big unknown
- For southeastern Colorado, dry times may persist into summer
- Winter storms bring only fleeting relief to drought-stricken California
- Great Lakes ice cover most extensive since mid-90s
- Despite Fall Floods, Drought Persists in Southeastern Colorado
- January precipitation deficits keep California drought outlook grim
- Alaska unseasonably warm in January 2014
- California Facing Worst Drought on Record
- How unusual were the Antarctic sea ice conditions that trapped a research ship on Christmas Eve 2013?
- How is the polar vortex related to the Arctic Oscillation?
- Polar vortex brings cold here and there, but not everywhere
- Wobbly polar vortex triggers extreme cold air outbreak
2013
- October More Like Summer Than Fall in Alaska
- Alaska having September’s Climate in October
- Historic Rainfall and Floods in Colorado
- Does the August Lull in Atlantic Hurricane Activity Mean We Won’t be Having an Active Season?
- New Record Temperature in Southwest Greenland?
- Heat hammers Europe in July and August
2012
- Arrival of monsoon eases India drought
- Arctic Sea Ice Breaks 2007 Record Low
- Late monsoon leads to drought in India
2011
- March 2011 Ice Extent Second Lowest on Record
- Winter Temperatures Influenced by North Atlantic Oscillation, La Niña
- Influence of El Niño and La Niña on Southwest Rainfall
- Dry Winter in the Southwest
- Another Wintry Winter for the Eastern U.S.
2010
- 2010 La Niña Continuing in the New Year
- Early wet season deluge in Australia
- Dry Winter in U.S. Southeast
Credit ClimateChange.gov
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