The 2019 data are out.It was the 2nd hottest year in the hottest decade in recorded history.If you have any doubts about human-caused climate change, set them aside.Human-caused climate change is real.It's affecting the entire planet...
It's clearly documented in:
Rising surface temperatures.
Rising ocean temperatures.
Increases in severe wildfires around the world.
Accelerating destruction of the Arctic ice cap.
Fast melting of Greenland.
Rising sea levels.
More severe typhoons and hurricanes.
Worsening...
Floods and droughts.
Heat waves.
Changing bird and butterfly migrations.
Expanded ranges of tropical diseases.
And more.
We know the causes: burning of fossil fuels, deforestation, certain agricultural practices.
And the good news is we know how to slow & ultimately stop it...
What's missing is action by our politicians and leaders, corrupted by fossil-fuel money and producers, misled by dishonest deniers of science, and misinformed by politically biased right-wing media moguls.
It's time to...
Reduce and eliminate greenhouse gas emissions. How?
Cut all fossil fuel subsidies.
Cease all fossil fuel exploration.
Ban all coal use.
Accelerate investments in non-carbon energy.
Accelerate elimination of internal combustion vehicles.
Protect/expand forest carbon sinks.
And...
Rapidly invest in adaptation strategies to reduce the severity of the climate impacts we can no longer avoid.Finally, if you don't think climatechange is a real problem...
Educate yourself.
Listen to the world's national academies of science & professional scientific associations, ALL of whom agree on the threat.
Tune out the voices of paid industry deniers & those who pretend this isn't a problem because they fear the solutions.
Vote.
Shout.
Act.
Climate/water scientist; US National Academy of Science;
