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CLIMATE CHANGE - DECODED?

https://saranshsharma.me/unheard-climate-change-problems.html

Originally published by saransh sharma.

We all have problrms.

The problem with human mind is that it runs away from truth. Climate change generally refers to all of the various long-term changes in our climate, including sea level rise, extreme weather, and ocean acidification.

"Potential truth of this century is climate change."

We are not aware of what is happening outside. Confined in our silos we are living a wonderful life, Aware, knowing of climate changes talking endlessly but not doing anything.

Act and change is the need of the hour.

Existence is telling us something everyday through unspoken words and silence as Mark Twain said

"Climate is what you expect; weather is what you get.”

Man spends his life in securing material things for himself and family. What about our home,our source of life which is this amazing green Planet which is giving us everything What are we leaving behind? We have exploited our home unconsciously .

We are pushing the climate system across dangerous tipping points. Beyond such points things like ice sheet collapse become self-sustaining and unstoppable, committing our children and children’s children to massive problems.

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Virtually all of us are now convinced that global warming poses clear and present danger to civilization.

Building an infrastructure that sustains a healthy, safe, and efficient society is, in part, a scientific and engineering challenge which dates back to the 1800s when the Industrial Revolution spurred rapid urban growth. That growth created new social and environmental problems.

At the dawn of the Industrial Revolution 250 years ago, CO2 levels in the atmosphere were approximately 280 parts per million (ppm).

Carbon dioxide levels in the air have now passed 400 parts per million (ppm).

Some scientific conclusions or theories have been so thoroughly examined and tested, and supported by so many independent observations and results, that their likelihood of subsequently being found to be wrong is vanishingly small. Such conclusions and theories are then regarded as settled facts. This is the case for the conclusions that the Earth system is warming and that much of this warming is very likely due to human activities.

Globally, some 90% of glaciers are shrinking in size.

Antarctic ice sheet is now losing 159 billion tonnes of ice each year—twice as much as when it was last surveyed.

The vast amount of overall human-caused warming—more than 90%—goes into heating the oceans.

During the last 5,000 years, the Earth on average cooled about 1.3 degrees Fahrenheit–until the last 100 years, when it warmed about 1.3 degrees F.

In short, primarily because of human-caused greenhouse gases, the global temperature is changing 50 times faster than it did during the time when modern civilization and agriculture developed, a time when humans figured out where the climate conditions—and rivers and sea levels—

Global warming generally refers to the observed warming of the planet due to human-caused greenhouse gas emissions. Climate change generally refers to all of the various long-term changes in our climate, including sea level rise, extreme weather, and ocean acidification.

A new study by British and Canadian researchers shows that the global temperature rise of the past 15 years has been greatly underestimated. The reason is the data gaps in the weather station network, especially in the Arctic. If you fill these data gaps using satellite measurements, the warming trend is more than doubled in the widely used HadCRUT4 data, and the much-discussed “warming pause” has virtually disappeared.

(I would like to discuss in the next post how using blockchain we can reduce the data gaps and provide security and inter-personal support across community without trusting each other but relying on data. Blockchain’s highly resilient architecture and distributed nature make it an interesting platform to deliver this nervous system for society.)

Climate change shifts precipitation patterns, causing semi-arid regions to become parched.

Russia was hit by the most lethal heat wave in human history, killing at least 55,000 people.

Russia lost 40% of its wheat crop and banned grain exports for 18 months, which contributed to soaring food prices globally, which in turn set the stage for unrest in the Middle East and around the world.

Pakistan was hit by the costliest natural disaster in its history, a deluge that put more than one fifth of the country underwater, affecting some 20 million people.

Amazon experienced its second 100-year drought in 5 years, killing a large number of rain forest trees and causing tremendous emissions of carbon dioxide

Greenland saw “the strongest ridge of high pressure ever recorded at middle levels of the atmosphere, anywhere on the globe.

Carbon based lifeforms most of the natural and non-natural products release carbon in the environment and it amounts for CO2 in the air for longer duration as compared to CH4.

Like for an instance Graviky pioneered the idea of recycling air pollution in 2013. By capturing air pollution and turning it into ink. They have developed KAALINK, a retrofit technology which captures carbon emissions from vehicles and chimneys before it enters the atmosphere. The captured pollutants are then recycled into inks, which they call AIR-INK.

We have to go inwards first to understand ourselves and then only we can understand what is happening outside our world. It’s time to move forward with outdoor experiments and broader research programs.