How Climate Change Will Affect the World
By Lucas Eaves on 03/04/2013 in climate change with 4 CommentsRead Time: 2 - 4 minutes
Over the last decade, through extensive research and noticeable changes in weather and storm prevalence, climate change has been accepted as a reality by a majority of the scientific community.
A number of observations support this conclusion. For example, did you know:
- 11 of the past 12 years have been the hottest recorded since 1850.
- In 1910, Montana’s National Glacier Park contained 150 glaciers. That number has dwindled to 27.
- Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania has lost 80 percent of its ice.
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In the long term, climate change will have a negative impact on people as well as wildlife. According to Learn stuff, by 2050:
- 30 million people won’t have enough food.
- 100 million people will die from droughts, storms, and diseases caused by climate change.
- 1 in 4 animals species will be near extinction.
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These changes are linked to human activity over the last 50 years.
The following infographic, created by Learn Stuff, highlights not only the consequences of climate change, but also its causes.
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4 Comments
Joe
03.04.2013
This infographic is an awesome representation of climate change. Using different and creative ways to show the impact of climate change may be the only way that we can affect people not willing to look at the text behind it. I recently saw a great documentary, Chasing Ice, that had some awesome visuals. I think screenings are still circulating – http://www.chasingice.com – a lot of information including the trailer
Michael Higham
03.05.2013
@michaelhigham
Even if someone is a climate change skeptic, the numbers on consumption are eye-opening.
The doomsday aesthetics definitely drive the point home.
Edward Bonnette
03.05.2013
@edwardbonnette
I agree that global warming is real and affected by humans, but is there really much that can be done? I understand it is good for everyone if we start going green and emitting less, but doesn’t the Earth go in natural warming and cooling cycles, whether humans are here or not. In the middle ages we had a mini ice age, at times when the dinosaurs were around scientists say there may have been no ice caps and life found a way to adapt. My advice would be just try and do the best you personally can to not pollute, and go to the Malidives now (the highest point is 3 feet so they will likely be gone before the end of this century).
Ricky Gandhi
03.07.2013
@rgandhi
There is a lot we can do. We can create technology that consumes greenhouse gasses (see green algae lights). We can develop greener technologies that mitigate the greenhouse gas outputs. Also, just by preserving forests and plants, we can drastically reduce the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere.
Yes the Earth goes through cycles, but we can undergo methods so we don’t exacerbate the cycle. Also, cycles don’t move as quickly as they have in the last 100 years