Climate change is a huge topic, so let's start with the basics. We break down what scientific data say about how we ended up with the climate crisis we face today, and what we need to do next. (From 2020) EarthDay
because the city has pumped up too much groundwater, leaving the land to collapse like an empty water bottle.The number of homes in the US that could end up underwater if sea levels rise 6 feet by 2100, as models suggest. The Miami area would be particularly devastated: Nearly 33,000 homes would end up underwater, at a total loss of $16 billion.The decline in arctic sea ice per decade since 1980.
Political controversy has continued to call into question scientists’ consensus on data supporting the concept of human-caused climate change, motivated by the financial incentives of the fossil fuel industry. But in 2015, the world’s leaders appeared to transcend those squabbles. On December 12, after two weeks of deliberations at the 21st United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Le Bourget, France, 195 countries agreed on the language in what’s known as the Paris agreement.
We also must fix our fundamentally broken relationship with the land itself. In the summer of 2019, the IPCC All of those changes will cost money. That was one of the primary motivators for the Paris agreement: Switching away from cheap fossil fuels means that businesses and companies are going to need to take a financial hit to ensure a profitable, livable future. Which is why many of the solutions to climate change have nothing to do with climate science, per se: They have to do with economics.in the lowest layer of our planet’s atmosphere. Compare that to 380 ppm just a decade ago.