Blog Assignment #2: The State of the Planet

Climate change is a reality, and science confirms that human activities are heavily implicated in this change. That we must do something at the climate threat and the environmental issues, it realizes well most.But over the last few years a new environmental phenomenon has been constructed in this country - the phenomenon of "catastrophic" climate change.It seems that mere "climate change" was not going to be bad enough, and so now it must be "a catastrophe" to be worthy of attention.The reasoning is now characterized by phrases such as "climate change is worse than we thought", that we are approaching "irreversible tipping in the Earth's climate", and that we are "at the point of no return".

The emissions of CO2 in the world increased three times as fast in the beginning of the 2100 century than in 1990s. Now the emissions are increasing with over 3 % each year. That’s an more considerable acceleration than in the worst scenario FN:s climate panel pictured.

Climate changes with higher and lower temperatures have existed in centuries, long before humans started to use combustion engines. How can we be sure that humans are the reason behind the climate changes? Historical you can’t see such temperature changes as we have had the last ten years. Suchlike haven’t existed in the last thousand years. For earlier years you have to lean on indirect measurements and that increases the insecure. You can’t explain the observed temperature changes only with natural variations. You know this by measure the existence of climate gasses, aerosols and ground changes. Then you’ll see that they are increasing steadily.

I think that as an individual person you can do a lot in preventing the climate change and the harm of nature in generally. But of course doesn’t it create a big impact until a lot of persons do these things. Someone have to start this campaign and give other persons a wake-up call by giving them a big shake. You can start travel by bus/train/aircraft instead of driving a car. If you don’t have this opportunity of communication, you can choose to drive a car which has ethanol as fuel. And I think it matter a lot with pre-separation of source. The material recycling will increase and lower the energy consumption. I also think that little things like turn off your electrics equipment when not in use and using of low energy-bulbs will help in the long run.

I’m not the right person to predict the future of the state of this planet. It’s a precarious thing for me to do, when I’m only are a layman. But what I learn and what I’ve seen I know that something have to be done. We can’t take the earth resources for granted, they are running out. But I don’t think it’s a “catastrophic” and ominous climate change as media has pictured this issue. I think that if we shape up and distribute our primary products well our children also have the chance to experience four different seasons.