What Is Climate Change? How Do We Measure It?
This boundary concerns the equilibrium of our planet's climate system, specifically focusing on the concentration of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. Human activities have markedly escalated CO2 levels, resulting in climate shifts such as global warming and disturbances in weather
What Are The Consequences?
The impact of global warming is evident: Records show an average sea level rise of 3.3 millimeters per year since 1870.
The decade from 2009 to 2019 was the warmest ever recorded, and the peak was set in 2016. Fire seasons and other extreme weather events like cyclones and floods have become longer and more intense, striking even in atypical seasons and causing increasingly devastating effects.
Conclusions
We must begin to speak of a climate crisis because while the climate has always changed, it has never done it so rapidly.
To stay within this boundary, we must work to limit the emissions of greenhouse gases and transition to renewable energy sources to mitigate the impacts of climate change on our planet and its inhabitants.
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