Humans are ruining this planet. Yes, there’s data to back that up.
“Getting the numbers straight is the first step in trying to understand these systems, and we can learn a lot just by looking at the numbers,” says Rachel Banks, a biophysicist at Caltech and the Chan-Zuckerberg BioHub, and one of the lead authors of a. “And for sure, we want to keep these numbers updated and keep growing the database, but we also want to try to understand the Earth systems better.”and poke around.
I got lost for hours in HuID. I’ve plucked out 14 particularly powerful, important, or just plain fascinating indicators—along with the graphs from the report that show their growth over time—that I think help illuminate those three threads.Thanks to humans loading the atmosphere with excess carbon, global surface temperatures have been rising steadily since 1850, as shown in the graph above. They’re now about 1.1 degrees Celsius warmer than in preindustrial times.
than the global average, because as it loses more sea ice, the darker underlying waters absorb more of the sun’s energy.As temperatures rise, glacial melt accelerates, driving up sea levels
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