The reality of climate change

Antarctic and Arctic sea ice loss has tripled in the last decade. The Earth has lost 28 trillion tonnes of sea ice in less than 30 years, reducing the planet’s ability to reflect solar radiation, compounding the planet’s warming caused by carbon dioxide and greenhouse gas emissions (CO2e). The loss of Arctic sea ice has been proven to have a linear relationship to CO2e emissions. 

In short, the world is getting warmer. Our oceans are more acidic.  Sea levels are rising.   Weather is more extreme, and animals are becoming extinct.

Why  to reduce carbon dioxide and greenhouse gas emissions  is so important?  

The world is getting warmer

The average temperature of our planet has risen by one degree in the last 200 years. The last five years have been the warmest on record. The carbon dioxide in our atmosphere is at its highest levels in over 800,000 years.

Our oceans are more acidic

Since the industrial revolution, our oceans have become 30% more acidic. By the end of this century, the ocean’s surface waters could have a pH around 7.8. The last time the ocean pH was this low was 14-17 million years ago.

Sea levels are rising

In the last century, sea levels have risen by over 20cms. The rate of increase has doubled in the past two decades. Sea levels could rise by up to a meter by the end of the century; every centimeter will displace a million people from their low-lying homes.

Weather is more extreme

Extreme weather events have tripled. Hurricanes, wildfires and flash flooding are multiplying. What had once been biblical is becoming commonplace. Coastal flooding is projected to rise by 50% by the end of the century.

Animals are becoming extinct

Animal extinction rates are 100 times more than any other time over several million years. The population of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians has fallen by over 70% in the last 60 years.