Climate Change Is Real

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on Earth and we will not be able to reverse these changes once they take place. So if the world’s ice caps are melting, sea levels are raising, rainforests are disappearing, droughts and severe hot and cold spells are increasingly taking place, we can’t reverse all these changes.

Though we can’t reverse climate change, there is still much that we can do to stop the conditions from getter worst and our dear Mother Earth turning into a place unlivable for us. If we don’t want to disappear like the dinosaurs, we need to take climate change seriously — each and every one of us — and there is a lot we can do individually and collectively in this regard.

While the heads of states from 147 nations and negotiators from 195 countries are addressing the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties (COP21) in Paris to find ways to reduce global carbon emissions and limiting global warming to 2C (3.6F), let us find out what climate change, global warming and many other ...

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expansion of seawater as it warms has resulted in global sea level having risen by about 8 inches since reliable record keeping began in 1880. It is estimated to rise another 1 to 4 feet by 2100.

Because the oceans take a very long time to respond to warmer conditions at the Earth’s surface, sea level will continue to rise for many centuries at rates equal to or higher than that of the current century.


Extreme weather:

HURRICANES will become stronger and more intense

Since the early 1980s, it is seen that the intensity, frequency and duration of North Atlantic hurricanes, and the frequency of the strongest (Category 4 and 5) hurricanes, have all increased.

There will ...

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