Climate Change: How Carbon Emissions are changing patterns.

Extreme weather conditions are concerning globally as air and sea temperatures continue to rise. How are carbon emissions affecting us?

• Climate change is largely the result of too much carbon dioxide (CO₂) in the atmosphere. (1)
• Carbon overload has been created from global destruction of the natural environment. Decimating forests, the burn of fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas.
• These actions increase CO₂ releasing more heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere.
• Less plant life as countries develop to absorb CO₂.
• Oceans exchanging higher levels of CO₂ further compromising its own ecological system through rising water temperatures.

Once carbon dioxide joins the atmosphere, 40% will remain in the atmosphere for 100 years and 20% will reside for 1000 years, while the final 10% will take 10,000 years to turn over. (2)

• Energy is held in the atmosphere retaining heat.
• The ability to hold water vapour increases.
• Water vapour has a short cycle in the atmosphere (ten days on average) before it becomes a weather event and falls to Earth.
• Increased air temperatures are evaporating moisture from waterways, soil and plant life.
• Rainfall arrives, hits dry soil unable to absorb water, causing floods.

The atmospheric carbon dioxide levels rose 40 percent between 1750 and 2011. (4)

In 2013, atmospheric CO₂ levels surpassed 400 million parts per million for the first time in human history. (5)

People have created half of these carbon dioxide emissions in the past four decades. (6)

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1. https://theconversation.com/climate-explained-why-carbon-dioxide-has-such-outsized-influence-on-earths-climate-123064.
2. https://doi.org/10.4155/cmt.13.80
3. https://ar5-syr.ipcc.ch/topic_observedchanges.php
4. https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/upoads/2018/02/SYR_AR5_FINAL_full.pdf
5. https://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/7/graphic-carbon-dioxide-hits-new-high/
6. https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/upoads/2018/02/SYR_AR5_FINAL_full.pdf