Change is good but only when it is for betterment. We all will agree to one thing and that is, climate change doesn’t seem to be creating a positive wave as it should. In fact, with the impending threat, this has given a huge rise to the increasing global warming which is becoming severe as we are moving forward in days. The bustling and vibrant cities, beautiful mountains, mesmerising corals- nature’s wrath isn’t likely to spare any of these beauties. Why am I talking about this is because we all know what global warming is, but there lies so many models, theories, and predictions in the world regarding global warming threats, which might literally make one confused about what to an not to believe on!
I have listed below 24 shocking facts about climate change and global warming that would help you get clear on how the phenomena behind the changing world.
1. Rising Sea Level can flood a large part of US East Coast
The global warming effects on the oceans has led the water level to rise between 11 and 38 inches (28 to 98 centimetres) by 2100, which is more than enough to deluge many of the cities along the U.S. East Coast.
2. Global Warming Has Turned the Jungle Foliage into Junk Food
Global Warming has turned the jungle leaves, fruits and vegetable plants into junk food like source, making them less nutritious which is hazardous to the animals that feed on them.
3. The year 2017 was the second hottest year followed by 2014
Studies found that the year 2014 was the hottest till 2015. And according to NASA, breaking the record by 0.17°C, the second hottest year was 2017 without the influence of El Nino. In fact, every component of the Earth’s is warming including surface air temperatures, lower atmospheric temperatures, ocean temperatures, and as ice around the globe is melting the sea level is expected to rise will rise by 7-23 inches by the end of 21st century, according to the IPCC 2007 report.
4. The Arctic Mosquitoes are Growing Bigger in Size
Research on climate change and global warming found that mosquitoes in the Arctic are growing quickly bigger in size as the giant blood sucker monsters. As the Arctic temperature has risen to 2°C, study predicts that these mosquitoes will increase by 53%. Even though Arctic mosquitoes do not cause harm to the humans but could become a trouble for reindeer and upend the ecology of the tundra.
5. The world has seen maximum rise of CO2 in 800,000 years
The increasing level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has set up a record for the first time in 800,000 years. Sad, but true that the catastrophic effect of global warming is going to impact human health and the planet itself. From this we figure out that the atmosphere we are living in and the air that we breathe has never had as much carbon dioxide in it as it does today.
6. Approx 250,000 people are likely to lose their lives in the next 3 decades
The climate change is expected to cause approximately 250,000 additional deaths per year between 2030 and 2050, as stated by WHO. Certain areas in the developing countries with the weak infrastructure has been predicted to be the least able to cope without any assistance.
7. The US National Park is only left with 26 glaciers out of 150
The rapid climate and environmental change have brought down the glaciers with just 26 out of 150 in the Montana Glacier National Park. Scientific research predicts that all the global warming effect on glaciers would vanish them all within few decades.
8. Natural Disasters have caused 600,000 Deaths Over the last 20 Years
Approx 600,000 deaths occurred worldwide due to natural disasters from 1990 onward, out of which 95% were from the poor/developing countries. For instance, a cyclone in Odisha, India, caused 10,000 deaths in October 1999 and a flash flood in Uttarakhand in 2013 caused the death of 5748 people. The recent flood in Kerala have already took the life of 400+ people and has left 1 Million people homeless. Also, according to a U.N. report, in the year 1995, 4.1 billion people became homeless and injured.
9. Amazon Forest is turning into a desert
Global Warming being associated with the hotter temperature is creating the opposites. In the sense, the Amazon Rainforest is turning into a desert and the Sahara Desert is becoming greener and greener. Said by PATT Foundation of the UK.
10. The Arctic would be ice-free by 2040
The Arctic is expected to be ice-free as early as the year 2040. A report from the Arctic Council states scientists believe that the summer of 2040 will witness the end of frozen north pole after a rapid shrinking of the ice coverage in the years to come.
11. Global Warming has affected many places
Venice, The Dead Sea, Cape Town, The Maldives, Key West, The Rhone Valley, Mumbai, Alps, Napa Valley, Rio de Janeiro, Alaska, Sudan, Lagos, Northern Italy, Osaka are the places which have been most affected by the Climate Change.
12. Climate Change can make Children Vulnerable to Human Trafficking
Natural disasters have always brought a change in the weather cycle and with this floods and drought are expected to grow making the children and grown-ups homeless. This may well drive more children around the globe into the hands vulnerable human trafficking.
