7 reasons why #climatechange is undeniable
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Like chocolate in a mouth, the polar ice cap is melting. Like a vanishing spray in an EPL match, the ozone layer keeps disappearing.
'Climate change is a hoax'. This statement, as unintelligent as it sounds has been made by people one would expect to be found at the upper echelon of intelligence. Granted that sometimes all the five sense organs of humans might not be functioning effectively at once, I personally do not feel one needs all the five senses to know that over the years, the world's climate is changing at rather alarming rate. I have highlighted below few of the reasons that make these changes undeniable
one: Global increase in temperature
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One does not even need to have eyesight in order to know that over the years, the average annual temperature has increased. Year 2016 happened to be the warmest year on record with eight of the 12 months that make up the year recorded as the warmest in history. This increase in temperature coincides with increase in the level of carbon (IV) oxide, a green house gas. The desertification of forest regions and conversion of forest lands to grasslands are one of the resultant effects of increase in global temperature. Something must be fishy, for those that have nose.
Two: Decreasing ice mass in the arctic and antarctic
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There is no doubt that increase in global temperature means more ice will melt in the polar region such as Greenland and the antarctic. This exactly is the case as decrease in ice volumes have been recorded in these two areas. Call the mopers!
Three: Rise in sea levels
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Where do you think all the water from the molten ice would go? In the seas and oceans down south of course! So it is not surprising to found an increase in the level of several seas and oceans of the world. Lots of biodiversity have been lost, several habitats submerged and inestimable human and properties lost all because of rise in sea levels
Four: Ocean acidification
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The increase in atmospheric concentration carbon (IV) oxide (an acidic oxide) has led to an increase in the dissolution of this gas into the various oceans. This in turn leads to a decrease in their pH levels culminating in an increase in acidity. The amount of this gas absorbed by ocean surfaces has actually increased by 2 billion tons annually https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/#footnote_13
Others evidences include
Extreme events https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/#footnote_10
Glacial retreat https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/#footnote_9
Shrinking ice sheets
In natural science, we do not only tell them, we show them
Regards: @gentleshaid