My capstone project is on the misconceptions vs facts about climate change. There are a lot of misconceptions about climate change. You should know about them so you can can stay informed and know the truth and act on climate change. We found and made a list of misconceptions which we narrowed down to 12. The 12 misconceptions are Climate Change is caused by nature; consensus on climate change is around 51-65%, there isn’t anything we do about climate change; climate is the same as weather; isn’t happening now, etc. Two of the biggest ones are that it is not happening now, it is natural and the consensus of scientists on human caused climate change. Climate Change is happening now hurricanes have gotten worse in recent decades, the oceans have gotten warmer, ticks and other Vectors are moving farther north, the global climate had increased by 1.5 degrees fahrenheit., the seas have risen on average 8 inches since 1820. Climate Change is happening now. Climate Change is not natural because the number one rate of warming we see today is unprecedented compared what is show for past climatic changes, number 2, the atmospheric heat signature of greenhouse gases is a warming of the lower atmosphere and a cooling of the upper atmosphere. Volcanoes cool the lower atmosphere attend warm the upper atmosphere and their has been no increase in volcanoes, the Sun warms and atmosphere evenly the whole way through. What we are seeing is mostly the Warming of the lower atmosphere and cooling of the upper atmosphere reminiscent of greenhouse gas emissions but with some natural effects as well. Number 3 the carbon isotope of the ambient CO2 is from plants so it can't be the deep ocean or volcanoes but other evidence from radiocarbon tells us that it is a radio-carbon dead source which plants actually are not, but fossil fuels. The scientific consensus of publishing Climate scientists on human caused climate change is 97%. Try getting 97% of anybody to agree on anything. My personal elevator speech:
My capstone project is on the misconceptions vs facts about climate change. There are a lot of misconceptions about climate change. You should know about them so you can can stay informed and know the truth and act on climate change. We found and made a list of misconceptions which we narrowed down to 12. The 12 misconceptions are Climate Change is caused by nature; consensus on climate change is around 51-65%, there isn’t anything we do about climate change; climate is the same as weather; isn’t happening now, etc. The ones I did where Climate is not happening now, climate change is good for us, the amount of CO2 is not increasing, and climate varies just like a cycle so human caused climate change is not real. Climate Change is happening now and is bad, hurricanes have gotten worse in recent decades, the oceans have gotten warmer, ticks and other Vectors are moving farther north, the global climate had increased by 1.5 degrees fahrenheit., the seas have risen on average 8 inches since 1820. Droughts have also gotten worse, as have floods. Hurricane Sandy storm surge and Hurricane Harvey’s rains have seem to be made worse by climate change. Coral Reefs are currently bleaching because of it Climate Change. There are also many other impacts happening. Climate Change is happening now. Climate Change is not good for us, Coral Reefs bleaching, more prolonged and warmer Heat waves and Droughts, more and heavier heavy downpours, more floods, stronger hurricanes, sea level rise, a decrease in air quality, a longer allergy season, more disease, damages to infrastructure, lessening water and food supply, more soil erosion and less forests, and damages to ecosystems, and less biodiversity and more forest fires, and sea ice and glacial ice melting and national security concerns caused by those and economic problems caused by those earlier problems as well. So climate is not good for us ethier. The rate of CO2 is increasing for over 100 years, in 2013 it was at 400 parts per million today it is at 408 parts per million. Climate does vary like a cycle but this is not a cycle. The rate of CO2 is raising at an unprecedented rate as is the temperature, that we have never seen in nature before (using ice cores, sediment core, tree cores, coral cores, etc or from climatic models of the past), when something in nature has caused a rate close to this in the past mass extinction events have gone along with it. Also climatic fingerprints from atmospheric temperature signatures tell us that it is human activity because what we are seeing is close to what climate models are predicting for greenhouse gas emissions with natural factors not volcanoes or the sun. Besides it doesn’t make sense does just because you haven’t seen something before mean that it won’t happen, I mean if you have never gotten the flu before does that mean that you will never get the flu for example.
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