Facts proving that the climate change is real

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June 22, 2019

By: Amrita Singh

“ONLY WHEN THE LAST TREE HAS BEEN CUT DOWN, THE LAST FISH BEEN CAUGHT AND THE LAST STREAM POISONED , WE WILL REALISE WE CANNOT EAT MONEY.”

Environmental change is real and that’s evident. It’s high time that we realise the need for our actions and take steps to combat the environmental changes.

Repercussions of environmental change is widespread. Recently a starving polar bear has strayed hundreds of kilometres from its natural Arctic habitat into the Russia city of Norlisk in Siberia. It is the first polar bear seen in the city in more than 40 years.

Over the past few years it has been observed that Arctic has been reportedly turning brown. This, reportedly, has been credited to the extreme temperatures the region faces.

When you think of snow the first thing that comes to the mind is a thick white sheet of snow covering the area. However it was reported that this winter due to the pollution in Siberia the snowfall wasn’t white it was black making it toxic.

7 environmental change facts you should know :-

• Sea levels are rising at their fastest rate in 2000 years.

• More greenhouse gases are in our atmosphere than any time in the human history.
• Climate change will lead to a refugee crisis.
• Two-thirds of the Great Barrier Reef has been damaged due to climate change.

• Earth could warm by 6 degrees this century.
• The PH of ocean surface water has decreased by 0.1, which makes them 26 percent more acidic now.
• The Arctic region may have its first completely ice-free summer by 2040.

Well, talking only about the problems is of no use, what is needed is quick action.

This year, The Deerfield Beach International Fishing Pier in Florida drew 633 divers. The Scuba divers gathered trash from the ocean floor and, in doing so, set a Guinness World Record for the largest underwater cleanup.

For the first time ever, UK uses more reusable energy than fossil fuels.

The school strike for climate (also known variously as Fridays for Future, Youth for Climate and Youth Strike 4 Climate) is an international movement of school students who are deciding not to attend classes and instead take part in demonstrations to demand action to prevent further global warming and climate change.

This shows that people are making efforts to combat environmental changes but more awareness and actions are needed. The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.
So realise the wrong we are doing to the planet before it’s too late !

Friendly reminder:-
EARTH IS THE ONLY HOME WE HAVE !

NASA’s shock claim reveals Apocalyptic risk of sudden meteor strike

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Sugat Srivastava

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May 6, 2019

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Our Earth and a meteor is on a collision course and has the potential to be apocalyptic. This is not a fanatic speaking but claimed by NASA. It has issued a terrifying warning, proclaiming that the Earth is under threat of a meteor strike amid growing concerns of an imminent asteroid impact.

NASA’s chief scientist Jim Bridenstine issued one of the agency’s most alarming warnings yet – claiming that the Earth is “about to face its biggest threat from outer space”. His doom-laden remarks came during a conference organised to better equip humans with ways to defend the planet against a meteor strike.

This week scientists from around the world have been meeting at the 2019 Planetary Defense Conference in College Park, Maryland. The exercise has become a regular event among the international community of “planetary defense” experts.

This year, the conference has been scrambling to develop methods of combating imminent asteroid impact, as well as emergency evacuation plans.

Popular television scientist Bill Nye also warned about the existential threat to humanity during the conference.

He told reporters: “The Earth is going to get hit with another big asteroid. The problem is, we don’t know when. It’s a very low probability in anyone’s lifetime, but it’s a very high-consequence event. If it happens, it would be like control-alt-delete for everything.”

NASA Chief Scientist Jim Green echoed Bill Nye’s remarks: “It’s not a matter of if; it’s only a matter of when.”

During a role-playing simulation exercise, NASA scientists tried and failed to stop a meteor crashing into the earth – despite being given eight years to prepare in the simulation.

In this scenario, the meteor was heading for New York City, which was eventually forced to evacuate under the simulation scenario.

The asteroid blast destroyed everything within a 15 kilometer “unsurvivable” with an energy 1,000 greater than the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

NASA is currently working with Elon Musk’s Space X company to develop a Double Asteroid Redirection Test in a bid to stop a future collision. It seems like they are the last hope for the earth’s survival if the threat proves to be true.

Oceans will be bluer and greener in color in 2100, thanks to climate change

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Sugat Srivastava

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February 9, 2019

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Climate change is not only increasing the sea level but will also change the color of the ocean by 2100. A new study by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) found the relation between color and climate change. The color won’t be extremely dramatic and hardly noticeable by the human eye but the change is real.

The warming planet is changing the distribution of phytoplankton across the world’s oceans. It’s well-known that seasonal changes regularly change colors, bit warmer oceans may permanently alter the mosaic of blues and greens as seen from space. In subtropical regions, warm waters will get even warmer, driving out phytoplankton populations and even marine life, in general. In water closer to poles, the warming will make the water appear greener while in subtropical regions, it will appear bluer.

“These microscopic organisms live in the water and are the base of the marine food chain,” said Stephanie Dutkiewicz, a marine ecologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the leader of the study, published Feb. 4 in the journal Nature Communications. “By being in the water, they change the color that we see by eye. If there are less of them in it, the water will be slightly bluer.”

Phytoplanktons are very small plants residing in the water bodies. They provide food for the fishes and other sea animals. They are the food chain initiator in the water bodies. Scientists have found that climate change will likely alter the types of phytoplankton that abound in future oceans.

For their research, Dutkiewicz and her colleagues developed a computer model that simulated changes in the world’s climate from 1860 through 2100. The model assumed that global temperatures would rise by 3 degrees Celsius — which is what most scientists think will happen if no effort is made to curb greenhouse gas emissions. The simulations, which take about three weeks to run on a large array of computers, revealed we can expect our oceans to look a little different in the future.

Climate change is real though many of our leaders don’t want to believe it. This effect of the color change is a little trivial but the main issue is the decline in the population of phytoplankton. They initiate the marine food chain and without them, the sea animals would die. Let’s hope we save that the conservative estimation of 3 degrees Celsius rise doesn’t become the reality.

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Facts proving that the climate change is real

7 environmental change facts you should know :-

NASA’s shock claim reveals Apocalyptic risk of sudden meteor strike

Oceans will be bluer and greener in color in 2100, thanks to climate change