What’s Going on With the Climate?

Though most people are aware of climate change and believe in it, the consequences of our actions have not truly been seen til now. Climate change is a bigger issue than most people know. The pollution from human activity has just kept getting worse. Fossil fuels just keep getting used for more and more things worsening the environment. 94% percent of the fuel used for transportation is the worse criminal of carbon emission. Everything you order online uses huge amounts of fossil fuels to get to where you are because of the long routes that most orders must take. Civilian transportation has also added lots to the total carbon emissions which is why carpool lanes exist, to try and put a bandaid on a bullet hole. Recently the long-term effects of climate change have begun to expose themselves through the weather. If you look at the weather this December it is evident that the climate is very damaged. Half of the days this month, 8 out of 15,  have reached over 50 degrees Fahrenheit which only occurred 7 times last year. The weather forecasts foresee the temperature over 50 at least three more times this month. Carbon Emissions from 2000-2014 alone have increased by around 6,500 million metric tons to almost 10,000. These changes are just the beginning of an increasingly worsening issue. 

Citations

Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data | US EPA, www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/global-greenhouse-gas-emissions-data. Accessed 16 Dec. 2023.