In early 1989 a professor Bill McKibben wrote a book on this subject. The Nature of this was a book that today can be called The Story of Climate Change. The Story on Climate Change only starts then. Listed below are a few hard facts on Global warming and climate change.
However, the first recorded studies on Climate Change and Global Warming date back to 1824, when a Scientist named Joseph Fourier believed the earth’s temperature should be much cooler than it is because of the earth’s distance from the sun.
In fact, he felt the temperature on Earth should be 0Deg C, very similar to that of the moon. He believed something in the earth’s atmosphere could possibly be acting as a type of insulation, trapping the heat in.
Of course, in those early years, this would have been regarded as the rumblings of a madman.
One of the first women and early pioneering scientists, Eunis Foote, realized that Carbon Dioxide was the key factor in the insulating layer around the earth.
In fact, in early 1850, she did an experiment. She took two glass Jars, one with CO2 and the other with Air. She then linked these two jars with a tube and heated them. Using a thermometer, she realized the sun warmed the CO2 quicker than regular air.
This lady concluded, “An Atmosphere of This Gas Would Give the earth a Higher Temperature.”
In fact, around two years later in the 1850s a very famous scientist of the time John Tyndall came to the same conclusion as Eunis Foote in his experiments. As this subject seemed to go nowhere, at this time and for years to come.
50 Years Later, the Challenge to Solve Global Warming and Climate Change Continue
It was almost 50 years later that a Swedish Chemist, Svante Arrhenius, who a few years later won the Nobel Prize, realized that major industries at the time had started to burn coal to drive their Industries and manufacturing plants and heat our homes.
It was then apparent that the amount of CO2 around the planet would increase in temperature to heat it. It is evident that when you burn Coal, gas, or Oil, you give off CO2.
In fact, burning these products produces substantial amounts of CO2. In fact, a 5Ltr Gas container weighs about 5 Kg. It contains about 85% Carbon and gives off about 5 Kg of carbon when it has been burned.
What then happens is that one Carbon Atom joins with two oxygen Atoms to give us CO2. When it burns, 5 litres of fuel will produce approximately 9 kg of CO2.
Many other scientists scoffed at this man’s theories, believing that the fast oceans and lakes would absorb all the extra CO2 that we created.
Years Later, Ocean Scientists Roger Revelle and Hans Suess Continued with a New Angle on the Subject
However, many years later, two Ocean Scientists, Roger Revelle and Hans Suess 1950, felt that the upper layers of the ocean were saturated with CO2.
These gentlemen believed it must then be accumulating in the Earth’s atmosphere. In 1958, they encountered a young scientist named Charles Keeling to test this theory.
He then built a CO2 monitoring station in a hut on the slopes of Mauna Loa Volcano in Hawaii.
These gentlemen realized that the amount of Carbon Dioxide had been increasing. In fact, it has been increasing every year since 1960, from 310 parts per million in 1960 to 400 parts per million in 2015.
This graph is known as THE KEELING CURVE. In fact, the jagged face of the graph is due to spring soaking up a lot of CO2.
When the plants and leaves die in autumn, they increase again.
Unfortunately, at this point, nobody knew what the danger zone would be with the rising CO2 levels. Temperatures fluctuated in summers and winters, and there was no exact science to tell us what the danger zone was.
How the Largest Oil Company Kept Reacted to the Looming Global Warming Information
THE GREEN HOUSE EFFECT DRAFT OF 1977
Research by J.F. BLACK PRODUCTS RESEARCH Division
EXXON RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING CO.
Former Environmental Justice Chief Mustafa Ali has acknowledged that some of the first scientists to realize the impact of CO2 worked for oil companies.
In July 1977, Exxon’s Chief Scientist told the company that there was a GENERAL SCIENTIFIC AGREEMENT THAT THE MOST LIKELY WAY mankind influences the global climate through carbon dioxide released from burning fossil fuels.
A doubling of carbon dioxide is estimated. This can increase the average global temperature from 1 degree C to 3 degrees C, with a 10 degrees C rise at the poles.
More research is needed to establish the validity and significance of these predictions concerning the greenhouse effect.
It is currently estimated that mankind has a 5 to 10-year time window to obtain the necessary information.
A year later, in June 1978, the executives of the largest oil company received a more explicit warning: Doubling the amount of carbon in the atmosphere would raise the temperature by 4 to 5 degrees F.
The executives of oil companies believed their Scientists and started raising the level of the oil Rigs to accommodate the rising sea levels caused by Global Warming.
These companies knew the long-term outcome. However, this information was not made public, as surely this would have affected their financial gains. Instead, they kept this quiet.
Global Climate Change as Forecast by Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Three-Dimensional Model
By Jim Hansen, I. Fung, A. Lacis, D. Rind, S. Lebedeff, R. Ruedy and G. Russel
The NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre, Goddard Institute for Space Studies New York
In 1988, Jim Hansen was ready to tell the congressional committee the shocking news. In fact, because the weather was so hot at that time, the paper received a lot of attention.
As we are all too aware, since then, climate change has increased steadily at a rapid rate. The rise in temperature worldwide has been remarkable.
- In fact, 2014 was the hottest year ever recorded on our planet.
- In 2015, these temperatures were smashed as the planet recorded new record highs.
- Guess what in 2016, the temperatures on our planet smashed all the previous highs of 2015
- In February of 2017, there were 29 lowest temperatures vs 4498 record highest temperatures.
- Last year, we saw the highest temperature ever recorded on the planet: 55 degrees C in Basra, Iraq. This is at the upper limits of human survival.
The fact of the matter is that the extra warmth that our CO2 traps produce is almost equivalent to 400,000 Hiroshima bombs every day. This would be enough heat to destabilize the vast Glaciers and sheets of the Antarctic. This has now bleached huge swaths of the world’s coral reefs, and the levels of the world’s oceans have started to rise.
How is Climate Change Affecting our Planet? Is Global Warming Having an Impact?
Having said that, a terrifying prospect is the rising sea level. This will leave the future generation—almost the new generation—with problems that can’t be rectified.
As icebergs melt and drift away, it is estimated that this could raise sea levels by as much as 1 Mtr. This would mean we could lose all coastal cities.
It is difficult to predict the timescale. However, this seems inevitable. Scientists have predicted 50 years. This could potentially make the planet ungovernable, as a war for fertile land receiving a good share of rain would be scarce.
Food resources, including fresh produce, fish, and game, would be depleted as the natural habitats of animals and fish stocks would be affected.
The Pentagon has warned that its biggest fear is Global Warming and its effect on the world population.
One of the current leading Scientists on Global warming, Katharine Hayhoe, has this to say. “We know it was warmer when there were Dinosaurs it was colder during the Ice Age so how do we know if this is another cycle the planet is going through?”
Why are we Getting Hotter When, Realistically, we Should be Colder?
Since 1880, the sun’s heat has been steadily climbing until the 1960s, when it began a cycle of steadily reducing the heat it projects to planet Earth.
So, if the sun controls our temperature right now, we should be getting cooler. However, this is not the case; temperatures are rising, and icebergs are melting.
It is now a fact that every scientist in the world has said Humans cause Global Warming and is Very Real.
If you don’t trust Scientists on this issue, then ask the Insurance Industry, which is the part of our economy that oversees analyzing risk.
The world’s largest insurance company has this to say. “THE ONLY PLAUSIBLE EXPLANATION FOR THE RISE IN WEATHER-RELATED CATASTROPHES IS GLOBAL WARMING”
“THE ONLY PLAUSIBLE EXPLANATION FOR THE RISE IN WEATHER-RELATED CATASTROPHES IS GLOBAL WARMING”
So, scientists started to notice more than 200 years ago that the molecular structure of CO2 traps heat near the planet and the atmosphere that would normally radiate out to space.
NASA RELEASE TIME LAPS INFO ON DEPLETING ICECAP
A NASA study reports that Arctic Ice is losing its (BULWARK) or defensive wall against warming summers.
Nasa explains the two-main thick ice losses over the last 30 years.
The first ice loss spanned a few years and started in 1989.
The second ice loss began in mid-2000, and Multiyear ice, which made up 20% of the sea ice cover, is only about 3% now.
According to NASA reports, in September 1984, there were 1.86 million square kilometres of old ice throughout the Arctic Sea Ice Cap.
In 2016, there were just 110,000 square kilometres of older sea ice left.
What is the Importance of The Arctic and the Antarctic Regions?
The Arctic and the Antarctic act as the earth’s air conditioners. Because they are cold and reflect a lot of heat, they stay cold and keep the earth cooler.
However, they are more sensitive to climate change. We see the biggest effects of climate change in these regions, with global warming temperatures in the Arctic regions.
In the last decade, we have seen an increase of as much as three times the global average for this region. As temperatures increase, ice melts.
A Trillion-Ton Iceberg in Antarctica is about to break off. At 3040 square Kilometres, the biggest crack in the Antarctic is deepened, according to experts and is ready to break away any day.
Making this the most significant breakaway in history. This Iceberg is almost half the size of Qatar and is expected to break apart in the next few weeks. THE CAUSE IS WARMING WATER BECAUSE OF GLOBAL WARMING.
The Arctic is heating up twice as much as the rest of the planet. Melting snow is exposing the icebergs to the sun. As these ice caps melt and fall away and become warmer water, their volume increases, as warm water has more volume than colder water.
By the year 2100, sea levels are expected to rise as much as 1 meter. This will affect Islands like the Maldives as they will be submerged. Other areas, including densely populated areas like Bangladesh, Vietnam, the Netherlands, and the East Coast of the United States, are all under threat.
The loss of floating icebergs has increased by 12 in the last two decades. In the late 1990s, we were losing 6 billion tons of ice; now, we are losing 74 billion tons.
How is Global Warming Going to Affect Us?
In some areas, weather patterns will change as temperatures get colder. Freezing temperatures will occur where previously mild temperatures are in place. Will this be everywhere? No, it will be in certain regions or areas.
However, in most Areas, the climate will change to severely hot. As it is now, some regions are experiencing dangerously elevated temperatures. In fact, the highest temperature ever recorded on earth recently was achieved in Qatar, a staggering 54.5 degrees C.
In Cape Town, South Africa, an unconfirmed summer record high of 50.5 was supposed to have been recorded.
Rising seas are caused by Global Warming and melting Icebergs. This will wipe out many areas, some highly populated, in the next 100 years. Rising seas are already affecting many coastal properties throughout the world. Higher water levels caused by warmer waters will destroy homes, agricultural land, and industry.
What Effect Will Global Warming Have on Countries Worldwide?
With hundreds of millions fleeing their flooded lands, there will be a mass migration as people migrate to other areas. This will cause overpopulation and all the problems that will come with this.
With the impact of coastal flooding and loss of land. Many people will also be migrating to areas that are not severely hot. Temperatures will rise to extreme highs that are too dangerous to live in.
Temperatures of 55 Degrees C have already been achieved. In years to come, because of continued global warming and climate change, these temperatures will steadily rise.
Food shortages in countries like the Philippines, Nigeria, Vietnam, Haiti, Bangladesh, and Malawi are just some nations that will be at risk. As they are expected to see an increase in hot weather and tropical storms, their ability to grow crops will be badly affected.
Multiple millions of people will need to be relocated. Today, many countries are refusing to take in refugees from war-ravaged areas. What will the plight of the millions needing to be relocated be?
The impact on countries that will take in some of the millions of refugees will be massive. Knowing their economies will already be radically affected by Global Warming.
It is estimated that the millions who are unable to migrate will be struck by poverty on a scale never imagined before.
Food production worldwide will drastically reduce as less land is available to plant crops. Without this, it would not be possible to feed the world’s population.
Strangely THOSE WHO HAVE HAD THE LEAST IMPACT ON GLOBAL WARMING WILL BE THE MOST AFFECTED BY GLOBAL WARMING.
The World Bank Estimates More Than 100 Billion Dollars a Year in Aid
The World Bank estimates that more than 100 Billion Dollars a year in aid just to survive barely. On top of this, it is estimated that climate change and Global Warming will cost the next generation.
A study by NextGen Climate and Demos expects the millennial generation to lose nearly 838 Trillion Dollars in lifetime income, and the children of millennials will lose tens of millions of Dollars.
This is because of the environmental impact of a much warmer earth. This study was based on historical data collected from 166 countries over the past 50 years.
These studies considered the impact of rising heat on the Gross Domestic Product, including the increasing number of natural disasters and rising sea levels.
This will hugely affect the growth of wheat and corn in the USA and abroad. It is estimated that we could experience an 87% increase in food prices and other commodities.
Corn, Barley, and Wheat will all be more difficult to grow. Products like alcohol and beer will be too expensive to buy. There will probably be no beer or very little by the year 2050.
Poppy seeds and flowers will grow in massive volumes as the planet gets hotter. This, in turn, will increase the heroin market as the poppy seeds will be more potent and create a far bigger drug market worldwide.
The increase in temperature will heavily affect health, bringing with it the growth of many more sicknesses. There will also be an increased number of allergies, including kidney stones and diarrhoea.
With the increased heat, millions of people will suffer from kidney stones. Lime disease has already increased in certain countries. E. coli disease will increase with a massive increase in Tornados.
What We Can Do To Reduce this Devastation.
- Recycle as much as possible.
- Make use of biodegradable products and packaging wherever possible.
- Stop using plastic bags and plastic bottles. These products are destroying sea lif.e
- Join lift clubs or use public transport when available.
- Installing roof insulation on your roof and walls will reduce the need for carbon-producing heating and cooling.
- Install double-glazed windows.
- Reduce water consumption
- It very significantly conserves our forests. Plant trees
- Reduce factory emissions
- Building energy-efficient homes is a major priority now more than ever. This applies to factories and offices.
- Using the benefits of Solar Power to harvest energy.
- Living off the Grid will reduce our carbon footprint and help slow down the inevitable impact of Global warming.
