Post # 7 6 degrees

6 degrees could change our world. When you talk about 6 simple degrees it doesn’t seem like a big change but as of right now our world is only experiencing 1 degree of global warming and it is effecting everyone. Australia being one of the driest continents already is experiencing the largest drought it has had in the last 1000 years. Ice sheets are melting taking the water supply for thousands away. All this is happening with only 1 degree of change, experts are expecting to see 6 degrees (11 degrees Fahrenheit) of change in the next 100 years. 6 degrees on a single day could just be the difference between shorts and pants, but globally 6 degrees on a regular basis could be the difference between fires, drought, death or the survival of all ecosystems. The temperature change although may help crops in winters or even allow other countries to grow different crops then they were once able to, it doesn’t not counter act the overall disruption that it goes on in the majority of all other countries.

All these damages that our world is seeing right now is with only 1 degree of change, our world is on the tipping point of having a 2 degree change. Although it doesn’t seem like much either but with this extra degree these tragedies become much worse and more severe. It becomes a wide spread “meltdown” of ice caps, fires spreading the across our planet, and further extinction of our wildlife. Steps are being taken to try and reduce the possibility of this 2 degree change by florescent lights, making our coal plants more efficient, and using solar energy but it may be too little too late. Without a change our world will soon have a new face to it due to the increasing temperatures.

Our world being just a few years from a point of no return, it is scary to see what 2 degrees can do to a planet but it will not stop there. Maybe not in 20, 30, or 40 years but our world will reach its 3^rd degree of temperature change and with this change it will bring some of our most saturated lands to a desert state. A 3^rd degree could cause a catastrophic chain of events that will change out world forever. There will be more energy in all aspects of super storms, hurricanes will be more often and be more sever due to the increase in power of our oceans. The tidal waves that have taken place are nothing compared to hwat we will begin to see without a change in our habits as a planet.