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Our Mission

This site's main goal is to provide unbiased climate change data and to explain how our species and all life on this planet is interconnected. How we Humans are contributing to a faster changing global environment that will have dire consequences for all of life on this planet if we do not unify and deal with it together.

A Bit About How Our Planet Works

Our planet is constantly changing. Natural cycles balance and regulate Earth and its atmosphere. Human activities can effect these natural cycles.

Hurting one of it's cycles can cause others to start to fail. If the planet has multiple system failures at once it will be impossible to restore them to a healthy balance. If, we can all change our thinking from this is not an immediate crisis, to let's unify together as a species and fix the problem now, then maybe we can stop or even undo the damage, rather then to figure out we were wrong after the fact, for in such a scenario it may be too late.

Natural cycles Of Our Planet

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  • The Nitrogen Cycle

    Nitrogen circulates between air, the soil and living things.

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    Human Interference In This Cycle

    The five processes in the nitrogen cycle – fixation, uptake, mineralization, nitrification, and denitrification – are all driven by microorganisms.

    Humans influence the global nitrogen cycle primarily through the use of nitrogen-based fertilizers. These fertilizers make the nitrogen hungry microorganisms stronger, while simultaneously killing out all the other microorganisms, making our food less nutritious, more susceptible to disease and weeds or other harmful plants. This is just one of the ways Human activities can disrupt the planet's natual nitrogen cycle.

  • The Carbon Cycle

    Carbon dioxide circulates between the air, soil, and living things.

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    Human Interference In This Cycle

    The four processes in the carbon cycle – photosynthesis, decomposition, respiration, combustion.

    Humans influence the carbon cycle primarily through the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation. In the normal cycle carbon is stored overtime in our soils and trees. When we cut down our worlds forests we disrupt the Earth's natural process for storing carbon. When we draw carbon from our planet in the form of fuels and burn them, it releases carbon into the atmosphere, causing a greenhouse effect, disrupting earth's natural process .

  • The Water Cycle

    Water circulates between the air, oceans and living things.

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    Human Interference In This Cycle

    The seven processes in the water cycle – evaporation, condensation, sublimation, precipitation, transpiration, runoff, infiltration.

    Humans activities have a large impact on the global water cycle. Through the building of dams and irrigation systems, large amounts of water are diverted from river systems. Although these man-made systems help to save water, they also cause more environmental stress on the land and have a big impact on time concentration of watersheds, because of the evaporation caused. Emission of greenhouse gases is causing the rainfall and evaporation patterns to change across the globe.

  • Photosynthesis

    This process followed by respiration recycles oxygen.

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    Human Interference In This Cycle

    The four processes in photosynthesis are – absorption of light, electron transfer, generation of ATP, carbon fixation.

    Humans have altered the rate of photosynthesis, and in turn productivity, in ecosystems through a variety of activities, including: Commercial Agriculture Techniques, which use large amount of chemical inputs, Deforestation, Habitat Destruction, and Urbanization, which remove plants and trees from the environment and disrupt ecosystems.

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How Did It Start?

Since the start of the Industrial Revolution in about 1750, human activities, such as the burning of fossil fuels, including coal and oil, have dramatically increased the concentration of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere. As a result, radiation from the sun gets trapped in our atomoshpere. These gases act like a blanket, keeping the planet warmer than it should be, and by should be we mean: what is optimal for Humans to exist on this planet.

What are greenhouse gases?

What they are and how they are connected to humans

Greenhouse Gasses Chart

OK, but how is this connected

To set the scene, let’s look at how the planet has warmed. In the charts below we see that after the industrial revolution humans have been the cause of RAPID changes to our plant. Carbon Dioxide, Methane, Nitrous Oxide gases have increased in all most identical timeline to Temperature and Sea Level Rise. In addition to a constant decrease in our Oxygen.

Humans where not measuring these values since year 1000.

I do not trust this data.

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To pick and choose what Math and Science you're willing to accept doesn't make sense and here's why: You rely on science in some areas like medicine. When you get sick you go to the doctor. Do you check what the weather will be like for the day before going outside? You do these things because on some level you have accpeted science. That doesn't mean science is always right, however your cell phone wouldn't work and planes wouldn't exsist if science always got it wrong either, so let's examine the scientifc process and then compare it to other ways of thinking.

A scientific claim is never accepted as true until it has gone through a lengthy process of examination by fellow scientists. This process begins informally, as scientists discuss their data and preliminary conclusions with their colleagues, their post-docs and their graduate students. Then the claim is shopped around at specialist conferences and workshops.

This may result in the scientist collecting additional data or revising the preliminary interpretation; sometimes it leads to more radical revision, like redesigning the data collection program or scrapping the study altogether if it begins to look like a lost cause. If things are looking solid, then the scientist writes up the results. At this stage, there’s often another round of feedback, as the preliminary write-up is sent to colleagues for comment.

Scientists across mutiple fields are all aligned with the data above and we do not need to agree on who is the cause of the climate changing, but at the very least, we do need to unify around the fact our planet is changing and that that change will turn life on this planet upside down. AND.. THIS IS A VERY BAD THING!! Now, compare that to other ideas that you have heard in life, are they scrutinized to the same degree? Every time you state what you believe to be true, are you required to supply all your evidence that supports your opinion? Do people then scrutinize your evidence and look for flaws? When a scientist states his or her theory, he or she is required to provide the data that supports his or her theory. Then scientists set out to duplicate the results. Their peers try and refute the findings. Only over time, after being unable to disprove a theory does it gain credability. So, data matters, and here all the data we have supplied thus far illustrates how Humans are effecting the planet.

The planet constantly heats and cools itself. This is just normal!!

True! ... but not entirely. The last time the planet had this much CO2 was way before humans were around! The charts above are proof of the direct connection of Humans and climate change. The chart below disproves the talking point that this is normal and humans have nothing to do with it.

Greenhouse Gasses Chart

I love the beach and warm weather. I do not care that the planet is warming.

Weather is a product of temperature change. We are reliant on our environment to shelter, feed, and hydrate us. We are directly effecting the future of our species. Simply put: increased global temperatures cause a negative chain reaction that will kill our food, make it harder for us to breath, and cause a lot more frequent and intense extreme weather events. At the current rate of our planet's destruction your niece, nephews and/or children will pay the price for your selfishness.

Why Should You Care

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Our Forests
Directly Effects Our Breath

Forests cover 31% of the land area on our planet. Because of forests, people are able to thrive and survive, since they provide oxygen, and purify the water and the air we breath. Forests also help many animals and ecosystems that rely on forests. Forests are home to 80% of the world’s land based life that include plants, animals, fungi and bacteria.

When a tree is cut down and burnt, the carbon does not just go away. Most of the carbon the tree has captured throughout its lifetime is released back into the air as carbon dioxide, reversing it's lifetime work capturing greenhouse gasses. If trees are left behind to rot from logging, then methane not carbo dioxide — a greenhouse gas roughly 30 times as potent as carbon dioxide — will be released into the atmosphere from decomposing trees. Reckless deforestation around the world accounts for 15 percent of global emissions of these heat-trapping gasses, a dangerous level that has the potential to be lowered.

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Our Oceans
Directly Effects Our Breath

Tiny ocean plants called phytoplankton contribute 50 to 85 percent of the oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere.

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Our Fish
Directly Effects Our Food

Coral reefs are believed by many to have the highest biodiversity of any ecosystem on the planet—even more than a tropical rainforest. Occupying less than one percent of the ocean floor, coral reefs are home to more than 25% of all marine life.

As many as 1 billion people across the planet depend on coral reefs for food, coastal protection, cultural practices,and income. Increasing ocean temperatures leave corals starved as they lose their primary source of food: the photosynthetic algae that live within their tissue.

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Our Agriculture
Directly Effects Our Food

Climate change can disrupt food availability, reduce access to food, and affect food quality. For example, projected increases in temperatures, changes in precipitation patterns, changes in extreme weather events, and reductions in water availability may all result in reduced agricultural productivity.

Desertification is a reduction in the productivity of the land that is not reversible. In other words, land is desertified when it can no longer support the same plant growth it had in the past, and the change is permanent on a human time scale. Many things can cause desertification. Drought, overgrazing, fire, and deforestation can thin out vegetation, leaving exposed soil. If the nutrient-rich top soil blows or washes away, plants may not be able to return. Overfarming or drought can change the soil so that rain no longer penetrates, and the plants lose the water they need to grow. If the changing force is lifted—drought ends or cattle are removed—yet still the land cannot recover, it is desertified. Human activity is contributing to desertification of the planet. The loss of productive land for a season or two or even for a few years is one thing, but to lose it effectively forever is clearly a far more serious problem.

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Our Water Supply
Directly Effects Our Hydration

Climate change is disrupting weather patterns, leading to extreme weather events, unpredictable water availability,- which in turn exacerbates water scarcity-and contaminating water supplies. Such impacts can drastically affect the quantity and quality of water that Humans and all life on this planet need to survive.

Ok I see Humans are heating up the planet. I don't see that connection with Extreme Weather Events.

Weather is created by the water cycle and temperature changes. Warmer Planet = More Extreme Weather.

  • Extreme Weather

  • Forest Fires

  • Floods

  • Hurricanes

  • Drought

    By negatively effecting our water cycle we are messing with the water fluctuations of our planet. Causing drought in some areas and flooding in others.

  • Tornadoes

    Both condensation and bigger storms are the root of the cause of stronger tornados. Those increase in frequency and gets more stronger when temperatures increase.

I do not care about anything or anyone but myself and my only purpose on this planet is to make the most money!!!

If this is running through your head right now, maybe you should look below to see how not helping the planet will hurt your bottom line.

As you read this large corporations are mitigating the risk of climate change behind closed doors, billionaire's are making rockets to inhabit other planets and politicians are pulling us apart.

Over the past decade FEMA has spent billions of taxpayer dollars to repair damage from extreme weather. As weather events become more and more costly either the tax payer will have to pay out more to fund FEMA or this protection will be scaled back, either way this effects you personally.

According to the UN's Panel on Climate Change or the IPCC: "In the next 30 years, food supply and food insecurity will be severely threatened if little or no action is taken to address climate change and the food system's vulnerability to climate change." The report authored by Professor John Roy Porter, who is a professor of agriculture, goes on to detail the effects on corn, maze, and other grains and crops, as well as fish, which are being effected by warming ocean temperatures. Since, the food chain depends on fish, it is therefore likely that shortages of fish will not just be a problem of less fish to eat, but rather less fish will inevitably lead to a depletion of other food sources as well. Bottom Line: Food Shortages lead to you paying more, way more, for food.

These are just some examples of how climate change will effect you personally by making things more expensive. Whether you care or not, you will be effected.

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Now what?

This thing is just way too big for me to deal with.

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  1. The people in power are only there because we say they should be there. Whatever side you are on vote people in office that care about the planet.
  2. Live life like we have one planet with a finite amount of resources.
    • Stop using single use plastic when you can.
    • Leave No Trace! - Take ownership of your trash and put it where it belongs.
    • If you need to use plastic be conscious of what items are better to purchase than others for the environment.
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    • Choose the many cost effective products that are packaged in recyclable materials, versus the ones that are harmful for our planet.
    • Use reusable Shopping Bags.
    • Don't think all resources on this planet are there for humans to take.
  3. Compost your organic matter. Land fills are a huge problem. This nasty habit can be mitigated by composting and will have a significant impact with minimal effort.
  4. Support local businesses that locally source their food. Like Natural Grocers and Farmers Markets. You products will be better for you and have less impact on the environment.
  5. Grow your own food.
  6. Go Solar!
  7. Eat Organic
  8. Speak up and educate humanity that we all need to take action now.