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Earth is currently in a period of warming. Over the last century, Earth's average temperature rose about 1.1 F (0.6C). In the last two decades, the rate of our world's warming accelerated. Scientists predict that the globe will continue to warm over the course of the 21st century. Is this warming trend a reason for concern? After all, our world has witnessed extreme warm periods before, such as during the time of the dinosaurs. Earth has also seen numerous ice ages on roughly 11,000-year cycles for at least the last million years. So, change is perhaps the only constant in Earth's 4.5-billion-year history.
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out of the whole situation the earth to describe floats like a water bottle really slowly In fact so slow that the north pole was created!
Unless the rate of change decreases, weather conditions will become unpredictable and potentially hazardous. It's not getting better, which is why the thing to do is to stop increasing the releases of CO2 and NOx into the atmosphere. Simplified, this means not burning more oil than absolutely necessary and not investing in new oil-based infrastructure.
2) Stop unnecessary releases of COx and NOx
2.1) More nuclear, less coal based power (also, coal actually releases MORE radioactive materials into the environment than nukeplants)
2.2) Supplement existing energy infrastructure with wind, tidal, solar and geothermal energy production
3) Don't make new infrastructure dependent on oil or natural gas (makes sense both economically and environmentally)
4) Stop burning stuff (waste, etc) without filtering the smoke.
doesn't it seem to happen ever 10-25 k yrs or so.?
Hope this helps!
Stefanie
Thousands of real scientists disagree with you and your environmentalist religion. Try getting your science from something other than a politically charged documentary.