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Millions tons carbon emissions don exist11/10/2023 Adaptation is crucial for saving lives and livelihoods, but humans’ ability to adapt to climate change is not limitless. (IPCC)Īdaptation alone cannot keep up with the impacts of climate change. In that case, inhabitants may have no other option than to abandon their homes. A small island, for example, may become uninhabitable due to sea level rise and lack of sufficient freshwater. If global temperatures keep rising, adapting to climate change will become increasingly difficult, especially for poorer countries. (IPCC)įACT: The climate is changing faster than humans, plants and animals can adapt Today, the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is about 50% higher than in 1750, far exceeding the natural changes over at least the past 800,000 years. The amount of CO2 in the atmosphere has been increasing at an unprecedented rate since the Industrial Revolution, when manual labor began to be replaced by machinery fueled by coal, oil and gas. There is a strong relationship between cumulative CO2 emissions and the increase in global surface temperature. The more of this pollution, such as carbon dioxide (CO2), accumulates in the atmosphere, the more of the sun’s heat gets trapped, the warmer it gets on Earth. (Global warming then leads to other changes like droughts, water scarcity, severe fires, rising sea levels, flooding, melting polar ice, intense storms and declining biodiversity.) (IPCC)īurning fossil fuels creates a blanket of pollution trapping the sun’s heat on Earth and raising global temperatures. Today, it’s human activities that are causing climate change, primarily due to the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil, and gas. Natural changes in the sun’s activity or large volcanic eruptions have caused ancient shifts in the Earth’s temperatures and weather patterns, but over the last 200 years, these natural causes have not significantly affected global temperatures. FACT: Climate change is caused by human activity
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