The Link between Climate Change, the Environment, and our Health

Excerpt from Impakter:

Climate change has been widely studied since it was first theorized in the late 19th century. A consensus has formed amongst the scientific community, with over 97% of the world’s scientists agreeing that the use of fossil fuels is causing rapid warming changes to the Earth’s climate and upsetting weather patterns.

The climatic conditions that have led to the success of the planet’s biodiversity are succumbing to more extreme fluctuations, threatening to have a lasting negative impact on the global environment.

The National Oceanographic & Atmospheric Association (NOAA) has kept a running tally of yearly temperature increases dating back 140 years. Nine of the ten warmest years on record have occurred since 2005, and 2019 marked a 43rd consecutive year of above-average ocean and land temperatures.

As part of the Paris Agreement, signatory nations are working towards reducing carbon emissions in order to keep global temperatures from increasing by up to 5°F, however, experts believe we are currently on track to reach 7°F by 2100.

These increases in temperatures are evident when analyzing the increasing frequency of heatwaves in Europe, large-scale wildfires in North America, and Australia as well as larger, more destructive storms in the Caribbean and the Pacific.

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