https://padlet.com/maryjantsch/5rgnl3nquh9pg5li Facts, causes, and effects. en-us 2022-04-30 20:01:17 UTC 2025-04-02 23:14:55 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f30e.png maryjantsch https://padlet.com/maryjantsch/5rgnl3nquh9pg5li/wish/2165452060 Scientists attribute the global warming trend observed since the mid-20th century to human expansion of the "greenhouse effect" - warming that results when the atmosphere traps heat radiated from Earth towards space.]]> 2022-04-30 20:15:20 UTC https://padlet.com/maryjantsch/5rgnl3nquh9pg5li/wish/2165452060 maryjantsch https://padlet.com/maryjantsch/5rgnl3nquh9pg5li/wish/2165453409 The evidence for rapid climate change is compelling:
- Global Temperature Rise
- Warming Ocean
- Shrinking Ice Sheets
- Glacial Retreat
- Decreased Snow Cover
- Sea Level Rise
- Declining Artic Sea Ice
- Extreme Events
- Ocean Acidification]]> 2022-04-30 20:19:01 UTC https://padlet.com/maryjantsch/5rgnl3nquh9pg5li/wish/2165453409 maryjantsch https://padlet.com/maryjantsch/5rgnl3nquh9pg5li/wish/2165455149 Future Effects:
- Change will continue throught this century and beyond
- Temperatues will continue to rise
- Frost-free season will lengthen
- Changes in precipitation patterns
- More droughts and heat waves
- Hurricanes will become stronger and more intense
- Sea level will rise 1-8 feet by 2100
- Artic likely to become ice-free]]> 2022-04-30 20:23:52 UTC https://padlet.com/maryjantsch/5rgnl3nquh9pg5li/wish/2165455149 maryjantsch https://padlet.com/maryjantsch/5rgnl3nquh9pg5li/wish/2165455849 On December 12, 2015, the Paris Agreement was approved, a legally binding pact that contains all the elements necessary to build a global strategy to fight climate change.]]> 2022-04-30 20:25:40 UTC https://padlet.com/maryjantsch/5rgnl3nquh9pg5li/wish/2165455849 maryjantsch https://padlet.com/maryjantsch/5rgnl3nquh9pg5li/wish/2165456594 The goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, will likely be out of reach by the end of this decade. That's the threshold beyond which scientists say the dangers of global warming — including worsening floods, droughts and wildfires — grow considerably.]]> 2022-04-30 20:28:03 UTC https://padlet.com/maryjantsch/5rgnl3nquh9pg5li/wish/2165456594 maryjantsch https://padlet.com/maryjantsch/5rgnl3nquh9pg5li/wish/2165457780 The acceleration of the water cycle has implications both at the ocean and on the continent, where storms could become increasingly intense. This higher amount of water circulating in the atmosphere could also explain the increase in rainfall that is being detected in some polar areas, where the fact that it is raining instead of snowing is speeding up the melting.]]> 2022-04-30 20:31:40 UTC https://padlet.com/maryjantsch/5rgnl3nquh9pg5li/wish/2165457780 maryjantsch https://padlet.com/maryjantsch/5rgnl3nquh9pg5li/wish/2165458581 2022-04-30 20:33:53 UTC https://padlet.com/maryjantsch/5rgnl3nquh9pg5li/wish/2165458581 maryjantsch https://padlet.com/maryjantsch/5rgnl3nquh9pg5li/wish/2165459026 Climate-warming trends over the past century are extremely likely due to human activities.]]> 2022-04-30 20:35:07 UTC https://padlet.com/maryjantsch/5rgnl3nquh9pg5li/wish/2165459026 maryjantsch https://padlet.com/maryjantsch/5rgnl3nquh9pg5li/wish/2165460360 The analysis shows that greenhouse gas emissions are projected to drop about 6 percent in 2020 because of the bans on travel and complete lockdowns, the pollution caused by industries and factories had a drop of about 90% in the months of April, May, and June. ]]> 2022-04-30 20:39:05 UTC https://padlet.com/maryjantsch/5rgnl3nquh9pg5li/wish/2165460360 maryjantsch https://padlet.com/maryjantsch/5rgnl3nquh9pg5li/wish/2165462800 2022-04-30 20:45:17 UTC https://padlet.com/maryjantsch/5rgnl3nquh9pg5li/wish/2165462800 https://padlet.com/maryjantsch/5rgnl3nquh9pg5li/wish/2226848132 Life on earth depends on the energy of the sun. The greenhouse effect consists of this light reaching the earth, some of this energy is reflected to space, some is absorbed in the atmosphere and transformed into heat, and this heat is absorbed by the greenhouse gases and distributed throughout the earth.]]> 2022-06-21 14:00:17 UTC https://padlet.com/maryjantsch/5rgnl3nquh9pg5li/wish/2226848132 maryjantsch https://padlet.com/maryjantsch/5rgnl3nquh9pg5li/wish/2229051311 Global warming and climate change are facts. The world needs to reduce or eliminate emissions, and fast. But while many of the problems inhibiting effective climate action are political, they aren’t really about politicians failing to do anything. There has been plenty of climate action over the last couple of decades. So far, however, it’s largely failed. And unfortunately, for somebody, global warming results in a new and promising business opportunity. Global warming is heating many sectors, like oil exploration, insurance services, and land acquisition.

The melting of glaciers results in shipping routes and, consequently, oil exploration opportunities in an unexplored land, for example, in Greenland and northern Canada, by oil companies  (Shell, BP, Deutsch, and others).

Insurers and land acquisition can be favored by global warming, for example, Forest fires in Colorado (where private firefighting companies make a lot of money), calamities in China, desertification in Spain, food shortages in Senegal, floods (where land is sold below market prices).

And with that, we ask ourselves “Is Money the Oxygen on which the Fire of Global Warming Burns?”


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