The Trump administration must stop ignoring the science when it comes to climate change. They should be ashamed of this roll back of public health protections during a public health crisis.
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Fight climate change, naturally.
Natural climate solutions like ending deforestation and restoring degraded forests could, at the global level, create 80 million jobs, bring 1 billion people out of poverty and add US$ 2.3 trillion in productive growth.
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Price tag: US$ 140 billion per year.
This is what it would take to make the changes humanity needs to adapt to a warming world. It may sound like a lot, but it’s less than 0.1% of global GDP
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195 nations on board.
195 countries signed the 2015 Paris Agreement, agreeing to limit global warming and adapt to climate change, partly by protecting nature.
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800 million people.
Eleven percent of the world’s population is currently vulnerable to climate change impacts such as droughts, floods, heat waves, extreme weather events and sea-level rise.
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11% of emissions.
Eleven percent of all global greenhouse gas emissions caused by humans are caused by deforestation — comparable to the emissions from all of the cars and trucks on the planet.
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Fun fact: Montreal Protocol has been called “the single most successful international agreement to date” by former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.
This was the agreement to collectively fight against ozone depletion in the 90s and now the ozone is healing!!!
3 steps to climate models:
1- Planet is divided into grid of squares
2- Each square is layered into tiles (each tile represents a precise land, ocean, etc)
3- Climate data for a specific tile are fed into a computer
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