Climate change is real and a legitimate threat to the planet. If you don’t think so, read on…
Current Events :
It snowed in Los Angeles on Friday. SNOWED — in sunny California. Let’s start there. For Southern Californians who barely see rain and are used to 75-degree weather on average, the surprise weather change was apocalyptic and a clear sign that it’s time to finally consider the severity of climate change.
Due to the potential for strong winds and heavy snow, a BLIZZARD WARNING was issued for the #LACounty and #VenturaCounty mountains from 4 am Friday to 4 pm Saturday. Snow accumulations up to 5 feet and wind gusts in excess of 55 mph are expected. #CAsnow #CAwx pic.twitter.com/wJUzMrqLim
— NWS Los Angeles (@NWSLosAngeles) February 22, 2023
If you’ve never given climate change much consideration and have taken the environment for granted, you’re not alone. Most people have somehow convinced themselves that the way the planet is today is the way it will always be. WRONG!
The truth is (and this is especially for conservative climate change deniers) climate change is so out of control, we’ve already almost run out of time to reverse it and save the planet. Or, to put it bluntly, those experimental flights to Mars may be necessary sooner than we think.
Snow in Los Angeles. No snow with mild temperatures in New York City all winter. Freezing temperatures in Florida. These are all signals that the planet is becoming too warm, which is a far more legitimate threat to human life than most know.
For example, Antarctica and Greenland are home to the 2 largest ice sheets on earth. In fact, they extend more than 6 million square miles combined. Sadly, those ice sheets are melting at a rapid pace. However, what would happen if those ice sheets were to completely melt?
In Europe, Brussels and Venice would each go underwater. In Asia, residents of Mumbai, Beijing, and Tokyo would be forced to move inland because their cities would be drowned. South America would instantly lose Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro. In Africa and the Middle East, Dakar, Accra, and Jeddah would all become nothing more than memories.
In the US, Houston, San Francisco, New York City, and the entire state of Florida would slowly disappear into the sea. We could also say goodbye to Philadelphia and the famous Bourbon St. in New Orleans.
According to a National Geographic estimate, the sea levels would rise 216 feet. In short, this would mean the world map would be completely remade and the planet would be decimated.
Researchers in the U.S., U.K., and Germany discovered a few years ago that unless we change our ways, our dependency on fossil fuels could completely melt the Antarctic ice sheet.
“This would not happen overnight, but the mind-boggling point is that our actions today are changing the face of planet Earth as we know it and will continue to do so for tens of thousands of years to come,” said Ricarda Winkelmann, of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.
“If we want to stop this from happening,” she added, “we need to keep coal, gas, and oil in the ground.”
OK WASSUP! discusses the Climate:
Climate change may soon be catastrophic.
Smithsonian: Two major glaciers in Antarctica may be shedding ice faster now than they have at any point in the past 5,500 years, new research suggests. The melting ice could lead to more than 11 feet of global sea level rise in the next several centuries, according to a new study published in Nature Geoscience. “Our work suggests that these vulnerable glaciers were relatively stable during the past millennia, yet their current rate of melting is accelerating and raising global sea level,” says coauthor Dylan Rood from Imperial College London in a statement. “These currently elevated rates of ice melting may signal that those vital arteries from the heart of West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) have burst, leading to accelerating flow into the ocean that is potentially disastrous for future global sea level in a warming world.” Scientists studied both the Thwaites Glacier (nicknamed the “Doomsday Glacier” for the potentially… Read more »