Climate Change

The source I read is the Climate page of the NASA website. It lists tons of ways how climate change is shown to be happening. It starts off by saying the satellites orbiting Earth and other technological advancements have allowed scientists to see climate on a global level, and how there is clear evidence of it. Global temperature rise is one of them. The surface temperature of earth has risen about 2 degrees Fahrenheit since the 19th century, and continues to rise today. Most of this warming has occurred in the past 35 years. This can be directly related to the advancement of technology and its use of fuels that emit carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. Sixteen out of the seventeen warmest years occurred since 2001. Along with warming surface temperature is the warming ocean temperatures. The earth’s oceans have absorbed much of this heat increasing its temperature by 0.302 degrees Fahrenheit since 1969. With the earth’s surface and ocean temperatures rising, it has caused glaciers and ice caps to melt. This has caused sea levels to rise 8 inches in the last century. While that seems like a small number in such a long time span, the rate in the past two decades nearly doubled the rate of the previous century. The large and continuous amounts of carbon dioxide being released is also the cause of an increase of extreme weather conditions. If we keep continuing what we have been doing, we will slowly destroy the planet that houses us.  I believe this to be a very credible source as it is NASA’s official website. They have the technology and resources to get credible information and I think their intentions are to spread the word.

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