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Findings #climatechange
Global warming is another name for climate change and it is caused by humans using fossil fuels which release carbon dioxide and other gases into the air (What is climate change?, 2020)
There are many causes of climate change such as burning fuel to power factories, cars and buses, agriculture and deforestation which also contributes to climate change (What is Climate Change?, 2020)
Deforestation releases sequestered carbon into the air and its estimated that clear cutting, fires and other forms of forest degradation contributes to up to 20% of global emissions (Global Climate Change: What You Need to Know, 2020)
Fertilizer use (primary source of nitrous emissions), livestock production(cattle, buffalo, sheep, goats -emit methane) and industrial processes which release fluorinated gases and other human activities that produce air pollution (Global Climate Change: What You Need to Know, 2020)
Concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane and mitrous oxides "have increased to levels unprecedented in the last 800,000 years(Global Climate Change: What You Need to Know, 2020)"
Carbon dioxide has risen by 40% (Global Climate Change: What You Need to Know, 2020)
The forests and oceans absorb greenhouse gases from the atmosphere through various processes like photosynthesis but these natural carbon sinks can not keep up with the increasing emissions (Global Climate Change: What You Need to Know, 2020)
The earth's temperature has increased by 1 degree Farenheit during the 20th century (Global Climate Change: What You Need to Know, 2020)
The earth's temperature is expected to rise more than 11.5 degrees Fahrenheit (What is climate change?, 2020)
The ice sheets are melting into the seas which is causing the oceans to rise (Global Climate Change: What You Need to Know, 2020)
By 2100, the oceans will rise 1-4 feet higher which will threaten coastal ecosystems and low-lying areas (Global Climate Change: What You Need to Know, 2020)
The increase in temperature of the oceans has caused an alteration of the range and population of the underwater creatures and causing coral bleaching which is killing many reefs (Global Climate Change: What You Need to Know, 2020)
"Between 2015 and 2020, the rate of deforestation was estimated at 10 million hectares per year, down from 16 million hectares per year in the 1990s (The State of the World's Forests 2020: Forests, biodiversity and people [EN/AR/RU]-World, 20200"
The world has 4.06 billion hectares of forests (31%) however, of this area only about 1.1 billion hectares are native forests that remain undisturbed by humans (4.06 billion hectares remain of global forest area. What does this mean?, 2020)
1,44 million square miles (3.74 million square kilometers) of ice has been recorded this year, 2020 (Kate Ramsayer, 2020)
About 75% of coral reefs worldwide are currently threatend by a combination of local and global stressors (Reefs Are At Risk | Reef Resilience, 2020)
In the last 30 years, over 50% of the worlds coral reefs have died and up to 905 may dies within the next century- there are very few untouched coral reefs that still exist (SECORE International | Why coral reefs need our help, 2020)
Coral reefs cover less than 1% of the ocean floor- all the reefs combined would equal 285000 square kilometers, about the size of Nevada (Contributor, 202)
Coral reefs are the most productive and diverse ecosystems on Earth (Contributor, 2020)