It's gone beyond science and predictions. People's lives are being affected.
"Oyster and other shellfish farmers along the Georgia Strait are experiencing the effects of climate change today. The oceans are becoming acidic. Every year, roughly one third of the carbon dioxide from fossil fuel emissions dissolves in the oceans, forming carbonic acid. In the past 200 years, global oceans have become 30% more acidic – the most dramatic change in ocean chemistry in the past 50 million years."
Discussions of climate change tend to be predicated upon some far-off future. When reading about sea level rise, feedback loops, or other ramifications of global climate change, I often find myself honing in on timelines. I’m comforted by the hope that the dystopian future will be after I’m...
www.wcel.org
"Homes are sinking and trees are tipping over in Alaska. Mammoth bones are surfacing in the Russian Far East — so many that people have begun selling the tusks as a substitute for elephant ivory. And in 2016, more than 70 people in western Siberia were hospitalized for exposure to anthrax, likely spread from a decades-old reindeer carcass that thawed from frozen ground."
Melting permafrost in the Arctic is unearthing diseases and destroying landscapes.
www.discovermagazine.com
This isn't "the sky is falling" scaremongering predictions of imminent doomsday. This is now, today, and if you don't care because It's hundreds and thousands of miles away, just wait. Global warming will start affecting your life soon enough.
Oddly enough, global warming affects the high altitude jet stream, making it look like a since wave with greatly increased amplitude and bringing arctic air further south. If you get more and more 'generational' cold snaps, that's part of the warming.
Compost it and use it in your garden. This isn't science. This is Henny Penny crying that the sky is falling.
