I know it’s being done to death, but at what point is it going to get so bad that governments worldwide start acknowledging there is a serious problem and the current measures are not strong enough ?
Based on current policies , we’re forecast to have global temperatures rise by 3 degrees Celsius by 2100 . Doesn’t sound to big but such an increase will destroy plenty of ecosystems and subject significant parts of the world to famine and severe water shortages . I mean we’ve already had an increase of just 1.2 degrees Celsius and already all of southern and Eastern England are under drought and I read a shocking statistic a few weeks back that nearly 60% of the eu were in danger of entering drought. Satellite images currently of Southern England and France make them look like deserts
I don’t know about you lot but even as a 31 year old I’ve noticed the weather change over time :
- every few years you could guarantee a winter with a decent bit of snow . Aside from the beast from the east , this hasn’t happened in the last 12 years .
- you do sometimes get them , but mornings in the winter where you wake up to frost are much less frequent
- winters just feel overall milder
I seriously worry for the future unless more radical action is taken on this subject :
- banning of sales of petrol and diesel cars needs to be accelerated
- our cities need much more trees and greenery
- carbon capture as a technology needs to become much more common than it currently is
- more investment in renewables and promotion business of companies that sell renewables
- much more of investment in nuclear energy . Much more investment in the research of fusion technology too
Based on current policies , we’re forecast to have global temperatures rise by 3 degrees Celsius by 2100 . Doesn’t sound to big but such an increase will destroy plenty of ecosystems and subject significant parts of the world to famine and severe water shortages . I mean we’ve already had an increase of just 1.2 degrees Celsius and already all of southern and Eastern England are under drought and I read a shocking statistic a few weeks back that nearly 60% of the eu were in danger of entering drought. Satellite images currently of Southern England and France make them look like deserts
I don’t know about you lot but even as a 31 year old I’ve noticed the weather change over time :
- every few years you could guarantee a winter with a decent bit of snow . Aside from the beast from the east , this hasn’t happened in the last 12 years .
- you do sometimes get them , but mornings in the winter where you wake up to frost are much less frequent
- winters just feel overall milder
I seriously worry for the future unless more radical action is taken on this subject :
- banning of sales of petrol and diesel cars needs to be accelerated
- our cities need much more trees and greenery
- carbon capture as a technology needs to become much more common than it currently is
- more investment in renewables and promotion business of companies that sell renewables
- much more of investment in nuclear energy . Much more investment in the research of fusion technology too