On
this page are some facts
against
global warming.
Climate
changecan
be natural, and yes, it
has happened naturally since
the beginning of our planet.
It is
obvious that the
early changes have been natural, because they happened
long
before humans ever lived on the Earth.
And yes, in the long
term, we are in one of such warm changes at the moment, and it is expected that the
climate is slowly
getting warmer.
But - the
recent global warming
that has happened during a very short period of 200 years, since the
western world started getting industrialised, and since we have
accumulated the levels of greenhouse gases by 1/3, is NOT a part of that natural
change.
Natural climate changes occur over millions of years, not over two
centuries.
The rate at which the climate is
changing at the moment, is definitely out of pattern.
It cannot possibly be a coincidence that we have almost doubled the
greenhouse gases since the 1800s when the western world
started to be industrialised. And we don't expect it to be a
coincidence, since we know
that our activities increase the rate of global
warming.
While we live a comfortable life, it is easy to forget where all the
food is coming from.
Even though our shops never seem to run out of food, it all still
starts with agriculture.
We still depend on Mother
Earth, and we don't even fully understand the complex
factors behind
climate changes.
Global warming can have devastating
consequenses on agriculture and fishing.
Not to
mention stronger
hurricanes, worse wildfires, droughts and flooded coastal
cities by rising sea levels.
If
you say that global warming is not to worry about because our planet
has previously survived many natural climate changes, well, our planet will
survivethis
one too.
But our way of life will
not.
See? There are no
good facts against global warming.
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