Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis by The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Compiled of many facts and figures, the IPCC report on Climate Change 2007 indicates and affirms many worries of climate change. Mostly being anthropocentrically caused, there is much to be concerned about. Primarily the greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, water vapour and nitrous oxide, are great causes in
climate change which is global warming and cooling. It is obvious throughout the report that the common trend is increased atmosphere toxicity as well as increased change to our water sources, weather patterns, and global temperature. Our continued use of fossil fuels are contributing to glaciers melting, sea level rise, increased temperature, increased precipitation as well as decreased precipitation, and changes in wind patterns and storms. Added freshwater and increased temperatures to our ocean effects the currents, tropical storms, and sea level rise, depending on latitude.
We are on a path to self destruction, and even if we plateau at our current levels our planet it still going to be in a state of great change. CO2 levels are likely to continue to rise, glaciers and ice caps are likely to melt, temperatures and weather will likely change as well. The IPCC believe that regardless of the theories out in the world, all variability in the climate systems prior to 1950 were of natural events, further reinforcing that the changes happening in only the last 50 years are very significant to our future. They are projecting that warming will be greatest over land and at high latitudes, snow cover will contract, sea ice could shrink in the Arctic and Antarctic, tropical cyclones will intensify, storm tracks will move poleward with changes in wind, and ocean circulation will change. It will take a long time to reverse what humankind has done to the planet, change must happen immediately and everyone needs to get on board.
We are on a path to self destruction, and even if we plateau at our current levels our planet it still going to be in a state of great change. CO2 levels are likely to continue to rise, glaciers and ice caps are likely to melt, temperatures and weather will likely change as well. The IPCC believe that regardless of the theories out in the world, all variability in the climate systems prior to 1950 were of natural events, further reinforcing that the changes happening in only the last 50 years are very significant to our future. They are projecting that warming will be greatest over land and at high latitudes, snow cover will contract, sea ice could shrink in the Arctic and Antarctic, tropical cyclones will intensify, storm tracks will move poleward with changes in wind, and ocean circulation will change. It will take a long time to reverse what humankind has done to the planet, change must happen immediately and everyone needs to get on board.
1) image taken from http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/dsn08/excursion.html
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