Climate Change-Benjamin Z. by Lockhart Learners

What does it mean?

lockhartlearners — 2023-09-14 18:43:05 UTC

Climate Change refers to long-term shifts in Temperatures, and weather patterns. These Shifts used to be natural, because of the Sun's activity, and Volcano eruptions.

Who made it worse?

lockhartlearners — 2023-09-14 18:51:08 UTC

Climate Scientists have done some research and found out that Humans were responsible for Global warming, and Climate changes. Wow, who would've thought. Since the 1800's humans started climate change by burning fossil fuels, coal, and oil.

Effects of Climate Change

lockhartlearners — 2023-09-14 19:00:59 UTC

Climate Change has a lot of effects on the environment, so Ill put 5 of my choice, and put them separately.

1. Droughts are obviously on the climate change, because Greenhouse gases are wrapping the earth like a blanket, and containing all the heat. (I did make a section about Greenhouse Gases)This leads to a heatwave, evaporation, and of course a drought. Crops might not have the chance to grow, because the intense drought might destroy the crops, but not all of them.

Effect Number 2

lockhartlearners — 2023-09-15 18:41:28 UTC

2. Floods.
You wanna know what else Climate Change does, cause a river flood. Climate Change is exacerbating the frequency of more extreme flood events. Climate change is also decreasing the number of more moderate floods. How does this happen, well warmer temperatures cause more water to evaporate from land and oceans. This causes the change of size and frequency of heavy precipitation. This event may turn and effect the size and frequency of flooding.

Effect #3

lockhartlearners — 2023-09-15 18:50:49 UTC

3. Melting Polar ice caps.
Ah yes, who would've thought that climate change, and global warming could melt polar ice caps. Climate change causes warmer airs around the world, and these warm airs, visit Antarctica, or any tundra, well you might know what happens. These cause the ice to melt, and increase the sea levels, thus flooding all Coastal Cities. Companies knowing about these polar ice caps melting are either scared, worried, or don't care. Polar Bears, and other Arctic animals are not happy about this.

What is Climate Change

lockhartlearners — 2023-09-15 18:51:17 UTC

Climate Change is where the temperature shifts into a different temperature. These shifts happen due to the sun's activity, or large Volcanic eruptions. What Climate Change does is, well, it increases the heat on the world.

Greenhouse Gases

lockhartlearners — 2023-09-15 19:00:55 UTC

People either say that Greenhouse Gases are either good or bad. So I'll tell their pros, and cons.

Pros:
Greenhouse Gases can somewhat help the environment, and this is how. What they do is that it can produce clean air, make the days bright and happy, can stabilize the environment, and protect our plants, and animals. Apparently they also cause the Earth to be warm, and if we didn't have them the whole Earth would freeze.
Cons:
Greenhouse gases were a great idea, until they started work in the Summer. What they do is trap the sun's heat, which raises the temperature on the Earth. The greenhouse gases can make Hot, and uncomfortable days, can raise the sea levels, Change the weather patterns, and of course pose a threat to our wildlife.

So I ask you, are Greenhouse Gases a good idea or bad idea? (Please answer in the comments)

Save Energy

lockhartlearners — 2023-09-19 15:36:30 UTC

Somehow using too much electricity is bad for climate change, and electricity does use fossil fuels, gasoline, nuclear energy, and how can I forget, renewable energy sources. If we use less electricity, we can promote clean air. The downsides of this though is that Trains that use electricity would go down, and important things lights that tell us what to do, would go down.

Use Other modes of transportation

lockhartlearners — 2023-09-19 15:42:45 UTC

We all know that Cars, use gasoline, and they all go up into the air, which pollutes the air, and this isn't the main reason why people are driving electric cars. The main reason why people are driving electric cars like the Tesla, is that the gas prices are way more expensive. To save the environment, is to either walk, run or ride a bike to stop polluting the air. This is the downside, you wanna spend like an hour or a while day to get to your work, I'm pretty sure you don't wanna get fired too. Your car battery will also die if you don't drive it.

Why do people make solutions?

lockhartlearners — 2023-09-19 15:46:17 UTC

People try and convince other people to help the environment by not using their car, stop using electricity, and don't use fossil fuels. People think if they come up with a solution, they wont have downsides right? WRONG! Every time someone comes up with a solution, there's always a problem, like a car battery dying, and etc.

Eating Healthy

lockhartlearners — 2023-09-21 15:44:46 UTC

Apparently eating fruit’s, vegetables, whole grains, beans, and any kind of nuts like almonds, and cashews, can help climate change. Eating healthy apparently uses less energy, land, water, and decreases the intensity of Greenhouse gasesBut you wanna know what happens if you eat too much Fruit, and Vegetables, you get a little something called Gut-Reactions, which not fun to have. If you just eat fruit and vegetables and nothing else, a bacteria type will populate your gut to change and take a period of time to get a little something called Gas-bloating, and another change of the population of the bacteria.

Effect #4

lockhartlearners — 2023-09-21 15:59:54 UTC

Hurricanes.
You know how climate change causes intense droughts, which can dry up all the water. Well when water vapor is evaporated into the atmosphere, that water vapor is fuel for intense, and powerful storms to develop. Then when the heat rises in the atmosphere, and when the oceans get warmer, well it’s probably not a good thing obviously. When a Hurricane is in progress, this increases the wind speeds, and I think you know what is going to happen. Heavy wind, and rain can knock down a tree, destroy houses, and possibly cause a flood. But the bright side is that if people were in a heatwave, they finally got out if it.

Effect #5

lockhartlearners — 2023-09-22 15:20:42 UTC

Wild Fires.
You know how climate change causes droughts, well don’t go into a forest or plain when there hasn’t been any rain when there is a drought. You probably know what happens right?
Research shows that climate change creates a warmer air, drier conditions and longer and more active fires. You wanna know who increased the thirst of the atmosphere? Well it’s none other than Humans. I wonder why?. The difficulty of stopping a wildfire, is pretty difficult, because the fires spread really fast. And where does this happen? Either in plains, area’s that contain grass, oh and forest’s. You wanna know which state has the most wildfires? Well it’s none other than “California,” it self.

The worst drought in History

lockhartlearners — 2023-09-22 15:46:18 UTC

It’s no surprise that a drought comes around in the U.S, but China had the worst drought in the 1800’s. In Northern China 1876, China had gotten a famine, by none other than a drought. This Famine had lasted for 3 years,(1876-1879) and you might be wondering how many people had died. You might think it’s 500,00 people or 1,000,000 right? Well you’d be wrong. The amount of people who had died is insane, and was 9 million people to 13 million people who had died. Not only that, but 5 million Indians also died, the Indians died, because something called the Monsoon failed in successive years the monsoon lasted for 2 years (1876-1878) when China had a drought.

NASA Global Climate Change: Sustainability and Government Resources

lockhartlearners — 2023-09-26 18:24:44 UTC

The Vatican's Efforts With Climate Change

lockhartlearners — 2023-09-26 18:25:15 UTC

Interactives - Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet

lockhartlearners — 2023-09-26 18:26:11 UTC

China Floods

lockhartlearners — 2023-09-26 18:59:37 UTC

In 1931, a river called the “Yangtze-Haui,” which translate to the “Chang Jiang” river. The Yangtze River is the longest river in Asia which estimates to 16,400 meter on the Plateau of Tibet. It kept going to the eastward of the Plateau, until it started going to its major delta system, East China. In 1548 a barrier Great JinJiang Levee was put around the river. The way the barrier worked is, well you know how a barrier works, it blocks the water, the barrier also had drains so that the water doesn’t over flow, because people don’t want a flood. But in the late 19th century, only 4 drains operated on the south side. Due to heavy rain, this caused the water levels to rise, and create a lowland on the north bank. Now originally China had flood control lakes to stop a flood, but China did a dumb thing to cut the lakes off by barriers, and turn some into a crop land. And when more heavy rains came by the lower side of the Yangtze River, and the consequences, became catastrophic. The flood covers 30,000 square miles of China, and the flood hit cities like Nanjing, and Wuhan. After the flood ended on November 1937, (apparently every time I try to look up what day the flood ended will just tell sites, and the month it started, and ended, so if you find the day it ended please tell it in the comments) there had been 3.7 million deaths or more, and about 40,000,000, homelessness in China. The 1931 China floods, was followed by 2 more floods, but did less deaths than the 1931. In 2010 a dam was provided, because China didn’t want another repeat of 1931. But does it make up for the thousands of property damage?

Example: Machine that Removes Carbon from the Air

lockhartlearners — 2023-09-26 19:05:19 UTC

The decade that melted the ice caps.

lockhartlearners — 2023-09-29 18:49:48 UTC

It’s no surprise that the ice caps are still melting, but before it wasn’t. Before the early 1900’s the ice caps were just fine, nothing melting that, much, but part of it was still melting, but when the early 1900’s came around, well you probably know what happens. Since climate change came around the ice caps started to melt, which is causing sea levels to rise. Since the ice caps were melting throughout the years, it wasn’t really a problem, but in one specific year, was the worst year the ice caps melted, and the year was 2019, according to IMBIE. Between 1992-2020 over 612 billion tonnes of ice melted, and 2019 was of course the last year, and 2019 melted over 532 billion tonnes of ice. This happened, because 2019 was the result of an exceptional heatwave in the arctic, during the summer. Now scientists predict that in 2040, all the polar ice caps will melt, and flood, in which more sea levels will rise by 70 meters, which is approximately 230 feet. This will cause, you probably know a flood that will cause all the coastal cities in the world to flood. Here is 2 maps before the ice caps melt, and if the ice caps melted. (I have to put the 2 maps separately, because one, I can’t add 2 in one section like this, and 2 it would be confusing if I added a map on this section, and the other one down, because if I add a map here it will be on top.)

If the ice caps melted map

lockhartlearners — 2023-09-29 18:51:11 UTC

The world if the ice caps didn’t melt

lockhartlearners — 2023-09-29 18:53:54 UTC

The Hurricane that took the most lives.

lockhartlearners — 2023-10-03 18:47:45 UTC

According to Google, the hurricane that took the most lives was the Great Galveston Hurricane, which took about 8000 lives, but these are rookie numbers compared to another hurricane. The Great Galveston hurricane is well known, because it happened during the 1900’s, but let me tell you about another hurricane called the “Great Hurricane.” The Great Hurricane was the worst hurricane in the world, taking over about 20,000 lives. This hurricane took place in Martinique, Barbados, and St. Eustatius, on October 9-20. When the Hurricane first formed, Barbados was hit first, causing about 4,326 deaths St. Eustatius was also hit causing about 4000-5000 deaths, and Martinique had about 9000 deaths. The hurricane also had a very high wind speed, of over 200 miles per hour, and if I’m right, I think trees, and materials from houses might have gone flying. Now, The Galveston Hurricane is still ranked the deadliest hurricane, but people who said that the Galveston hurricane deserved top 1 of deadliest hurricane, might’ve not done any research at all, because Galveston only killed like 8,000 or 10,009 people compared to The great hurricane.

The worst Gender reveal

lockhartlearners — 2023-10-05 18:57:42 UTC

So we all know what a gender reveal party right, everything is fun, and at the end, families reveal a gender in some crazy way. But this couple took things a bit farther. In July 21, 2021, a couple were planning to reveal a gender in the best way possible. What was the way you ask? Well their plan was to use a smoke bomb, but this was a stupid idea, because the area was dry, and you wanna know what happens. Now the bomb it self didn’t exactly set off the fire, the smoke bomb malfunctioned, and sparks just shot everywhere. About 22,744 acres of land was burnt because of the couples stupid decision. 10 buildings were also destroyed, 6 building were damaged, and about 12 or 13 people were injured. This is the sad part, not the buildings or injuries, it’s because a firefighter died while trying. This firefighter has served for 18 years, and sadly died while going alone to scout out the fire, which is kinda dumb. Now the firefighter died because of his decision to go alone, but the couple was responsible for the fire, injuries, destruction, and this firefighters death. The couple got a felony charge dismissed, but let the other 29 stand, including the most serious. Their charges were: Manslaughter, a felony, and among other felonies, and misdemeanor charges. You wanna know what the couple pleaded,? NOT GUILTY. The couple also demanded to drop all charges, and sadly they aren’t in custody.