For those of us who are older or know people that are older, it is interesting to ask them about how the weather is different from say twenty years ago or fifty years ago. I had a talk with my grandmother about the weather on her most recent visit, seeing as she is in her late nineties, she has experienced a lot. She talked about the difference in how the weather has been in the past few years compared to when she was a child or even how different it is from when she was in her mid adulthood. She has experienced the change in our planet first hand. She told me she worries for future generations.
Over the past few years I have done some research on what is going on. I have article upon article and research after research about what is causing our climate to change. The fact is, one big problem that affects our climate is pollution. CO2 emissions, methane, human-made aerosols, and overall pollution has contributed to where our climate is today. Below I'm providing some visuals of change.
Here is a link with a video that shows the progression of the earth's surface temperature changes from 1950-2013. Video: Global Temperature Variation
NASA has a great site that shows images of how the earth has changed over time. NASA Images of Change
This comment has been removed by the author.
ReplyDeleteThe sad part is our current EPA isn't allow to mention the term "climate change" or "global warming."
ReplyDeleteHi Ivan. Being banned from using words referring to climate change is absolutely ridiculous. I feel like this just enforces keeping people in the dark about issues that don't have time to be ignored or pushed to the back burner. This conversation would bring us into a political talk and though I would love to have one of those, I know it is a controversial one. Politics and the environment are so intertwined it makes it difficult at times.
DeleteIt is beyond scary to think of how the weather continues to change in just one generation. I've only been alive for 32 years and I can even recall the weather differences growing up as compared to now. And even more concerning is the rapid speed in which it is happening. Even Las Vegas, which is fortunate enough not to experience the same natural disasters like wildfires and hurricanes, is affected by global warming. Summers here were already hot but at least bearable. More recent years have seen relatively warm winters and hotter, longer summer months. I read an article a couple of years ago stating that at the rate the weather is going, Las Vegas summers would soon average 120 degrees F - the same as the Sahara Desert.
ReplyDeleteHi Andrea. It is scary to think about how the weather has changed through the generations. I agree with you that even in the last 30 years the weather has changed drastically. I could not even imagine living in Las Vegas with temperatures that averaged 120 degrees, I can barely stand the hot temperatures now. The thing that scares me more than hot temperatures is the thought of running out of clean water to drink.
DeleteI happen to believe that global warming is a hoax. If the earth is billions of years old as many scientists believe, than there is not enough statistical data available to determine what is the earth's mean temperature; scientists would need to know this data to determine if the earth is warming or cooling. Further, many of these same climate scientists in the nineteen seventies were claiming the earth would be in a ice age at the term of the millennium (2000). Although, I do not believe we are heading for a ice age, however, judging from the temperature so far in Las Vegas this year maybe global cooling is closer to the truth (it is March 26, 2018 we have yet to a eighty degree day this year).
ReplyDeleteI think people who think global warming is a hoax, are always hilarious. First, I would state 2014 was the hottest year on record. Then 2015 was the hottest year on record. Then 2016 was the hottest year on record. I believe your argument as stated is flawed. Why would you need to know what mean temperature of the earth over billions of years is, before you can state whether global warming is occurring? For me, it's like a doctor telling me I'm getting fatter year after year and that I need to lose weight. But then I respond to the doctor, you don't know what my mean weight over the course of my life was. Regardless of what I've stated, scientists have been able to approximate the temperature of earth over billions of years.
Deletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_temperature_record