GLACIERS
The Earth's average temperature has risen 1.9 degrees since the late 19th century. Our oceans have increased .4 degrees fahrenheit since 1969. Antartica lost 127 billion tons of ice per year since 1993-2016 and that number has tripled since then. Greenland lost 286 billion tons of ice between the years 1993-2016.
DEFORESTATION
11% of emissions are due to deforestation, and an average of 3.5-7 billions trees are cut down per year. That's the same amount of trees as the population of Earth.
11% of emissions are due to deforestation, and an average of 3.5-7 billions trees are cut down per year. That's the same amount of trees as the population of Earth.
NATURAL DISASTERS
800 million people are affected by natural disasters that are a product of climate change, such as flooding, heat waves, droughts. That amount of people is more than the entire population of Europe.
OUR OCEANS
Since the beginning of the industrial revolution, the acidity of the ocean water has increased by 30%. The sea level is rising 3.3 millimeters per year, which is 1.3 inches every decade. The global sea level has risen 8 inches in the last century, which is an issue for populations on the coast.
HOW WE USE OUR ENERGY
85.2% of our energy is produced from oil, natural gas and coal.
EARTHS RESOURCES
Every year we blow our ecological budget earlier and earlier and at our current rate of resource use we'd need 1.75 planets to support our demands on Earth's ecosystem. Before the 1970s, our resource use remained within the boundaries of what our planet could produce - in 1961, we only used three-quarters of our annual resources.
INCREASING WARMTH
The past five years have been the five warmest since record-keeping began in the late 1800s. The Earth has experienced 42 straight years (since 1977) with an above-average global temperature.
CARBON EMISSIONS