07/05/2023
‼️DID YOU KNOW‼️
Global warming can have a significant impact on ocean currents? As the Earth's temperature rises, the melting of polar ice caps can cause changes in the salinity of ocean water, which can disrupt the natural flow of currents. This can lead to changes in weather patterns, affecting everything from precipitation levels to sea levels. In fact, scientists believe that global warming may be a contributing factor to the recent slowdown of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), which is responsible for bringing warm water from the equator to the North Atlantic.
Changes to Earth’s climate driven by increased human emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases are already having widespread effects on the environment: glaciers and ice sheets are shrinking, river and lake ice is breaking up earlier, plant and animal geographic ranges are shifting, and plants and trees are blooming sooner. Climate change are now occurring, such as sea ice loss, accelerated sea level rise, and longer, more intense heat waves. Some changes (such as droughts, wildfires, and extreme rainfall) are happening faster than scientists previously assessed. In fact, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) — the United Nations body established to assess the science related to climate change — modern humans have never before seen the observed changes in our global climate, and some of these changes are irreversible over the next hundreds to thousands of years. Scientists have high confidence that global temperatures will continue to rise for many decades, mainly due to greenhouse gases produced by human activities.
There’s a lot of misinformation out there about climate change and the environment. Here are some facts.
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📌Sources:
https://climate.nasa.gov/effects/
https://www.checkpointnews.org/climate-change-check-the-facts/amp/
Spiel by: Jilian Alonso
Poster by: Kevin Kaufman