Climate change: Vital signs of the planet

How did we reach here!!!!

Nature has enough for everyone’s need, not for everyone’s greed

World population-7 Billion

Glaciers

have

shrunk

Ice on

rivers, lakes

breaking up

earlier

Plant &

animal

ranges

have

shifted

Trees

flowering

sooner

More intense heat

waves

Global area

affected by drought

has increased

(since 1970s)

A layer of greenhouse

gases – primarily water

vapour, and including

much smaller amounts

of carbon

dioxide, methane and

nitrous oxide – act as a

thermal blanket for the

Earth, absorbing heat

and warming the surface

to a life-supporting

average of 59 degrees

Fahrenheit (15 degrees

Celsius)

Ninety-seven percent

of climate scientists

agree that climate-

warming trends over

the past century are

very likely due to

human activities

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There is no question that climate change is happening; the only

arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.

Freshwater availability projected

to decrease in

Central, South, East and

Southeast Asia by the 2050s

Fast facts, The clock is ticking fast

• On august 2013-Co2 level as high as

395.15PPM.• Arctic ice is rapidly disappearing, and the region may have its

first completely ice-free summer by 2040 or earlier. Polar

bears and indigenous cultures are already suffering from the

sea-ice loss.

• More than a million species face extinction from disappearing

habitat, changing ecosystems, and acidifying oceans.

• Our Earth is warming. Earth's average temperature has

risen by 1.4°F over the past century, and is projected to rise

another 2 to 11.5°F over the next hundred years.

Earth is our treasure, not our dump

• After 2000 years of minimal change in global average

sea levels, it rose at 0.13inches per year between 1993

& 2011.

• Global average surface temperature is rising at more

than 0.15F per decade & 2001-2010 was the warmest

decade.

• Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the

acidity of surface ocean waters has increased by about

30 percent. Acidifying at the fastest rate in 300 million

years.

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our

children. We need answers for them.

Fast facts, The clock is ticking fast

Consequences for not acting now

We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on earth as its other

creatures do

1931 China flood: death toll-4 million

1976 Tangshan earthquake

China ::1 million death toll

Tangshan earthquake

memorial

2005 Hurricane Katrina Katrina

2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami

Uttarakhand Disaster

What you can do?

• If you want to live a long life, focus on making

contributions. Plant trees, save water, conserve

electricity & educate yourself as well as others.

• If you have entrepreneurial aspirations ,put your ideas in

the context of climate change.

• Join the movement against fossil fuels & oppose any

deforestation activities around your vicinity.

• Change your behavior and most importantly try to lead a

harmonious life devoid of artificial luxuries because true

luxury is harmony with the nature.

• Support organizations who are actively fighting to save

our planet.

Sometimes the questions are complicated but the answers are simple

Protecting our Forest cover

Climate change is the single biggest thing that humans have ever done on this planet.

Did the planet betray us or did we betray the planet?

Taken as a

whole, the range

of published

evidence

indicates that

the net damage

costs of climate

change are likely

to be significant

and to increase

over time.