Our Battle Against Climate Change Begins with Knowledge
What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
- Dr. Jane Goodall
Climate change isn't something people get to choose to believe or not: it's happening.
- Matt Gaetz
When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin
Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, it's common sense.
- Ronald Reagan
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
- Nelson Mandela
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.
- Mahatma Gandhi
temperature
Surface temperatures are rising by about 0.2 °C per decade,with 2020 reaching a temperature of 1.2 °C above the pre-industrial era. Since1950, the number of cold days and nights has decreased, and the number of warm days and nights has increased.
carbon dioxide
Since the middle of the 20th century, annual emissions from burning fossil fuels have increased every decade, from an average of 3 billion tons of carbon (11 billion tons of carbon dioxide) a year in the 1960s to 9.5 billion tons of carbon (35 billion tons of carbon dioxide) per year in the 2010s.
methane
Methane has more than 80 times the warming power of carbon dioxide over the first 20 years after it reaches the atmosphere. Even though CO2 has a longer-lasting effect, methane sets the pace for warming in the near term. At least 25% of today’s global warming is driven by methane from human actions.
nitrous oxide
The impact of 1 pound of N2O on warming the atmosphere is almost 300 times that of 1 pound of carbon dioxide. Globally, about 40% of total N2O emissions come from human activities. Nitrous oxide is emitted from agriculture, land use, transportation, industry, among other activities.
polar ice
Polar ice caps are melting as global warming causes climate change. We lose Arctic sea ice at a rate of almost 13% per decade, and over the past 30 years, the oldest and thickest ice in the Arctic has declined by a stunning 95%. If emissions continue to rise unchecked, the Arctic could be ice-free in the summer by 2040.
