Welcome to YouChoose, a blog about individual climate action.
With all the confusing information we read every day from the most diverse sources we may wonder how do we know that human activities are causing changes in the climate. I am posting here a link to the European Space Agency (ESA) web site that nicely summarizes decades of satellite observations of the so-called essential climate variables that are the indicators of change in the planet’s ecosystems.
What do satellite data tell us? See here in the ESA web page “Climate Change: The evidence from Space” how satellites monitor our Earth and provide long term continuous record of the changes happening over time. One important piece of information tells us that data from space are in agreement with climate projections from the warming scenarios provided by the IPCC, giving us some confidence that projected warming effects are realistic.
This is worrisome because the latest IPCC AR6 Synthesis report released in March 2023 provides a glimpse in possible future scenarios caused by a global temperature increase.
What can we do as individuals?
The IPCC report lists stopping deforestation, reforestation, and reconversion of degraded ecosystem among the most impactful mitigation strategies. Agriculture and livestock farming are major contributor to greenhouse gases and loss of biodiversity; reduce meat consumption and avoid using products that cause deforestation such as meat, palm oil, unsustainable sourced cocoa, and tropical woods. Urge your governments to take action against deforestation and loss of biodiversity.
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