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Climate change is here to stay. There is an increasing body of evidence as a result of many scientific studies throughout the world which indicates the change in climate is irrefutable. Much of the evidence now indicates that the problem is occurring more rapidly than first anticipated and that the changes may be more extreme and will last much longer than the few centuries predicted.
As reported in the article ‘Long-term picture offers little solace on climate change,’ (2016), it is possible that the effects of climate change will persist for tens of thousands of years.
The principle cause of climate change is centered around carbon dioxide polluting the atmosphere. This is due to the burning of fossil fuels which have caused a huge spike in the level of carbon dioxide and other chemicals in the atmosphere, particularly since society has become industrialized. This in turn has a domino-effect on the climate of the world including sea level rise, temperature rise and warmer oceans causing ice sheets and glaciers to melt. This has consequential effects on weather, and thus on the way people and animals live their lives. Serious changes in climate and weather will have a detrimental effect, for example, on small islands as they will eventually become submerged, displacing their inhabitants.
The article ‘Long-term picture offers little solace on climate change,’ (2016), explains that even if carbon dioxide emissions were stopped today, there has been so much of it released into the atmosphere that the effect of this may be set to persist for tens of thousands of years. This being the case, it means that climate change cannot be reversed or stopped.
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