RT Article
T1 What Is Climate Change Doing to Us and for Us?
JF Zygon
VO 53
IS 2
SP 443
OP 461
A1 Carr, Paul H. 1935-
LA English
PB Wiley-Blackwell
YR 2018
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1576159248
AB What are we doing to our climate? Emissions from fossil fuel burning have raised carbon dioxide concentrations 35 percent higher than in the past millions of years. This increase is warming our planet via the greenhouse effect. What is climate change doing to and for us? Dry regions are drier and wet ones wetter. Wildfires have increased threefold, hurricanes more violent, floods setting record heights, glaciers melting, and seas rising. Parts of Earth are increasingly uninhabitable. Climate change requires us to act as a global community. Climate justice enjoins emitters to pay the social-environmental costs of fossil fuel burning. This would expedite green solar, wind, and next-generation nuclear energy sources. Individuals should conserve resources, waste less food, and eat a plant-rich diet.
K1 carbon dioxide
K1 Climate Change
K1 Environment
K1 fossil fuel burning
K1 Global warming
K1 Globalization
K1 green energy
K1 greenhouse effect
K1 rising seas
K1 weather extremes
DO 10.1111/zygo.12410