Climate Change has been a common topic of people's conversations for the past few years. The worry that the world could be dying is a concern many people have today. The map shown above is sort of a timeline from the years 1990 - 2020. I selected this map because I've heard from many sources of how bad the climate has been getting with the temperature rising.
If you take a close look at the year of 1990, you see how floods were much more current than in the present time. At first glance, the map for this year appears to be bluer indicating that natural disasters containing water were more frequent since climate change wasn't a big issue in the 1990s. In some of the colder months, like December or January, the average temperature would be much colder.
In the year of 2005, you can see how it is starting to make a transition from being bluer to now a redder tone. This transition shows the how floods and water related natural disasters were beginning to be less common, and people during this time were experiencing droughts. Droughts being the direct opposite of floods, since droughts mean it was drier than normal conditions.
In the year of 2020, this is the beginning of a time period when climate change started to be more common in normal everyday conversations even though they never realized it's been slowly progressing, and didn't just suddenly begin out of nowhere. In the map, 2020 is mostly a deep red showing how the droughts of 2005 have only been getting worse, and even more droughts are starting to appear. Climate change is only going to worsen from here if there is not something done.
Ultimately, I've selected this map to help give a better understanding about how truly dangerous Climate Change is. Showing in the time period of 30 years how water related natural disasters have slowly diminished, and how droughts are becoming more common due to the rising of the temperature. This is slowly getting more, and more dangerous. The winter isn't feeling much different than the spring temperature, and summer is reaching some dangerously high degrees to the point where it is dangerous to be outside. Climate change is an event that is based off of human activities, so if we all make a change, we can hopefully end these dangerous heats before it's too late.
1 comment:
This is very interesting but also sad too! I think this is a good map for people who don't believe in climate change to look at and see the actual effect of
the way we as humans are treating this planet. Solving this issue will not be easy- we not only need individuals to jump on board, but also corporations and factories who are contributing to much of the carbon monoxide going into the atmosphere. Solving the problem of climate change will take action on a political and global scale.
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