1960-2019 By the Numbers: It Isn’t Rocket Science
Fully 80% of all manmade CO2 emissions ever produced have been generated since 1960, and half of all emissions have been generated just since 1990.
Fully 80% of all manmade CO2 emissions ever produced have been generated since 1960, and half of all emissions have been generated just since 1990.
While a handful of scientists & activists raise the alarm re: climate change, the rest of us go about our business as if there were nothing to worry about.
As the atmosphere’s air conditioner, the Ocean has saved us from an early demise, but its capacity to absorb heat, though large, is not infinite.
We will reach the critical 1.5-degree threshold that portends severe and irreversible climate change even without another iota of emissions. Now what?
Sophisticated tech is an asset when change is limited in scope, but when the scale is vast & progressive (like with climate change) it’s a vulnerability.
The time for complacency is over as we have to reckon with global warming and its impacts now if we are to save the planet for our grandchildren.
Will the forcings and feedbacks of climate change get the best of us?
Green walls can act as a passive system reducing energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions.
One quarter of Americans’ tax burden goes to the U.S. military, which in and of itself emits more greenhouse gases than most nations of the world.
Despite significant growth in the amount of energy generated from renewable sources, 2018’s carbon emissions were up 1.7% from the previous year.