Last two years ago was considered to be the warmest ever recorded by humans. A year later, in 2015, it was recorded to be warmer still. Plus, that year also was the year were the largest annual increase in carbon dioxide since records began.
Then, in January of this year, humans broke the record for having to experience the largest monthly temperature anomaly. However, that was not it. February cam, and it's a record-breaking number.
"February didn't break climate change records - it obliterated them. Regions of the Arctic were more than 16C warmer than normal - whatever constitutes normal now. But what is really making people stand up and notice is that the surface of the Earth north of the equator was 2C warmer than pre-industrial temperatures. This was meant to be a line that must not be crossed," The Conservation reports.
According to records, the human species has been "swamping" Mother Earth's capability to absorb greenhouse gases.
One has to understand that the presence of more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would mean higher temperatures.
Meaning to say, even if all of us came to our senses and minimize our carbo footprints or carbon emissions, we would still need "to revert to drastic geoengineering to rein in further warming." To add, doing this is not an assurance that it will work.
In other words, if all our efforts fail, then we are doomed.
So what do we do now? Continue to look for trending news? Watch the ups and downs of stick market? Continue to listen to the speeches of our politicians who doesn't seem to care about climate change or global warning? Buy that newest fashion trend?
"We appear uninterested, either through denial or desensitisation, in the environmental changes happening right in front of our eyes.
There are sure to be more climate records broken this year. But we treat them as we treat new fashions, phones or films. More novelty, newer features, more drama. We seem unable to understand that we are driving such changes. Record breaking changes that will ultimately break our civilisation, and so scatter all that we obsess and care about."
