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Climate Change
solutions
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changing transports methods into more sustainable and environment-friendly transports to reduce their carbon footprints
be more efficient: use public transports or carpool when possible, turn off lights when leaving a room, unplug devices from taking smaller showers, etc
consume less: eat more healthily and from natural sources, buy fewer materials (instead, buy efficient and multi-use ones which can be used through various different circumstances), buy reliable or recycled stuff
stop cutting down trees, or encouraging them to be cut down, buy recycled or reliable paper
separate trash, organic form reciable
adapt and introduce new habits into your daily routines (ex: shower one once a day, go grocery shopping one once a week, cook own meals)
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spreading awareness about the causes, effects and the different methods that can be adopted in other to improve this issue
effects
both minimum, as well as maximum temperatures, have drastically risen because of climate change, forcing living things and non-living things to adapt into new environment with new conditions
for example: when combining land and ocean temperatures, we are to become to the conclusion that the average decade increase rate from 1880 until 1981, was of 0.07ºC, however, this amount has increased to 0.18ºC, from 1981 until now
precipitations levels have risen, causing extreme weather events, such as heavier and more frequent rain and hail
glacials shrink and ice melts in faster rates, influencing ocean currents into becoming slower and causing sea levels to rise
it has been recorded that seas have risen over 23cm during the past 140 years, increasing around 3.2 mm each year
Even though climate change has caused a great amount of negative effects, it's also responsible for a few positive ones
less and shorter winters, because of the constantly increasing instead or decreasing temperatures
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agricultural yields became more sustainable and reliable, improving as a total
a smaller amount of droughts, meaning that there were fewer losses and destruction of wildfire and their habitats, no food or drinking water shortages occurred, diseases in wild animals didn't increase, etc
increase of biodiversity, a expansion of species from all living things (including plants, bacteria, animals, and humans) occurred in different regions and ecosystems
many permafrost are thawing, because of the warmer and warmer earth temperature that causes the ice inside permafrost to melt, and only leave water and soil behind.
caution and rapid solutions are required, as thawing permafrost have the ability to cause dangerous impacts on our planet and it's living things
causes
Greenhouse effect
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4 green house gases
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CO2
released through respiration, volcanos, deforestation, burning fossil fuel,
nitrous oxide
produced in agriculture (specifically in fertilizers and different soil cultivations) and fossil fuel combustion
Human Activity
in a study made by over 1000 independent scientists from different countries concludes that there is a 95% chance that human activities increased the Earth's temperature over the last 50 years
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evidence
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Decrease of snow cover
it's possible to see through satellites that snow in the northern hampshire in the last five years has started to melt earlier because of the comparison of the amounts of snow in spring
Shrinking of ice sheets
a study conducted by NASA between 1993 and 2019 shows that Greenland has lost 279B tons of ice and Antarctica lost 148B tons of ice
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Extreme events, concerning animals, weather, etc
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