Not looking for a political argument. I need facts. I am in no way a climate change denier, but I had a conversation with someone who told me the average increase is only 2°F over the past 100 years. That doesn’t seem like a lot and would support the argument that the climate goes through waves of changes naturally over time.
I’m going to run into him tomorrow and I need some ammo to support the climate change argument. Is it the rate of change that’s increasing that makes it dangerous? Is 2° enough to cause a lot of polar ice caps to melt? I need some facts to counter his. Thanks!
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So water allows light to pass through it, which means the oceans heaat up from the bottom up. This is the opposite from land, which heats only the top layer of dirt and material and it cools down very quickly.
So with the oceans heating from increase on global tempreture, it means the salinity (salt level) and acidity is changing rapidly. The smallest organisms in the ocean, zoo and phytoplankton, cant survive these rapid changes and are at risk of collapsing. They are the primary food source at the bottom of the food chain in the ocean, so everything will collapse and we face a global marine collapse.
Protein from fish is a major food source for the majority of people on the planet. Hungry people topple governments.
So yeah, small changes have devastating effects.
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