{"id":112,"date":"2023-12-24T11:43:53","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T16:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aachips.co\/blog\/?p=112"},"modified":"2023-12-24T11:43:53","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T16:43:53","slug":"each-degree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aachips.co\/blog\/each-degree\/","title":{"rendered":"What each degree of warming means"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What each degree means<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Current Climate Status: <strong>.8 Degrees C of warming since pre-industrial age.<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2012: Melting of Greenland in July, record level heat waves, Hurricane Sandy, drought in the Midwest, crazy wildfires in Australia &amp; two new colors added to the temperature map to accommodate heat wave temperatures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1 Degree C of warming (92 GT CO2)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Increase of atmosphere\u2019s capacity to hold water vapor by 7%. In other words, more water in the air, humid areas more humid, carrying stronger storms. Drier areas become drier, causing drought and difficulties obtaining water especially in these parts of the developed world., potential for climate refugees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2 Degree C of Warming (493 GT CO2)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2018Safe\u2019 limit determined by UN during Copenhagen Summit in 2009. \u201cThe Threshold of danger.\u201d \u2018Too high to be safe, too low to be possible.\u2019 We are almost certainly going to blow past 2 Degrees. Questions raised about who this limit is deemed safe towards. This limit has been protested by African and Islandic Nations who will be in the midst of a full blown humanitarian emergency at this level. \u2018Two Degrees are Suicide\u2019 and \u2018We will not Die Quietly\u2019 were popular chants among the African delegates when the documents were leaked of this limit prematurely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">4 Degree C of Warming \u2013 \u201cHell on Earth\u201d&nbsp;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Hottest earth has been in 30 million years. Sea level rise 3-6 feet. Persistent drought, damages to agriculture, &gt;200 million climate refugees, half of known species on earth extinct.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In tamed scientific terms:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201c<\/strong>What scientists are nearly unanimously predicting by the end of the century, without serious policy changes. Scenarios are devastating: the inundation of coastal cities; increasing risks for food production potentially leading to higher malnutrition rates; many dry regions becoming dryer, wet regions wetter, unprecedented heat waves in many regions, especially in the tropics; substantially exacerbated water scarcity in many regions; increased frequency of high-intensity tropical cyclones; and irreversible loss of biodiversity, including coral reef systems.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sea-level rise 15 to 20% over global mean means flooded coastlines. Most of human population lives close to the coastlines, which means they will have to refuge elsewhere, causing domestic conflicts and wars, especially over water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/climatechange.worldbank.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Turn_Down_the_heat_Why_a_4_degree_centrigrade_warmer_world_must_be_avoided.pdf\">http:\/\/climatechange.worldbank.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Turn_Down_the_heat_Why_a_4_degree_centrigrade_warmer_world_must_be_avoided.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">6 Degrees C<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;If we conduct our business as usual, we are projected to hit this point by the end of the century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This warming is manmade and attributed to the extraction and burning of fossil fuels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<em>Transition to a post-fossil fuel world of clean energies will not occur as long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy. Fossil fuels are cheap only because they are subsidized and do not pay their costs to society. Air and water pollution from fossil fuel extraction and use have high costs in human health, food production, and natural ecosystems, with costs borne by the public. Costs of climate change and ocean acidification also are borne by the public, especially young people and future generations.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cWe cannot go down the path of the dirty fuels without guaranteeing that the climate system passes tipping points, leaving our children and grandchildren a situation out of their control, a situation of our making.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>-Dr. James Hansen, Head of NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies &amp; Leading Scientist<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe cannot go down the path of the dirty fuels without guaranteeing that the climate system passes tipping points, leaving our children and grandchildren a situation out of their control, a situation of our making.\u201d<br \/>\n-Dr. James Hansen, Head of NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies &#038; Leading Scientist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[34,44,73],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-change","category-educational","tag-advocacy","tag-climate","tag-solarpunk"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.6 - 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