Global Heating

This essay is a continuation of the previous one HERE.

The debate on Global Heating continues. Scientists are crying hoarse, laying out evidence in support of Global Heating and its effects and the irreversible stage we have reached. And then there are many businesses, politicians and leaders who refute global heating, saying it is just a routine variation, refusing to take any action. Till there is a consistent, majority agreement and effort over Global Heating, there will not be any meaningful changes, which try to halt or reduce the heating.

For a moment, Let us just keep this debate aside. Let us be neutral; not pro or anti Global Heating. With a neutral attitude in mind, please read the following facts and ask yourself, what do they tell you?

The Heat

March 2022 was the hottest March in india’s recorded history since 1901. (Link)
Temperatures in many Indian cities and towns was above 45 degrees centigrade for many days, affecting crop production (Link)
1047 people died in this year's second heatwave in Spain, as temperatures topped 40 degrees Celsius in many parts of the country from July 10 to July 19, 2022. (Link)
In Phoenix, America’s fifth largest city with 1.6 million habitants, temperatures have topped 38C every day in June, breaking several daily records with little respite at night (Link)
Temperatures at the Vostok Station, Antarctica, after the summer faded, recorded a massive 15C hotter than the previous all time record. Similarly, at the time of coming out of deep freeze in winter in Arctic, the region was 3C warmer than long term average (Link)
In China, the summer of 2022 has witnessed the strongest heat wave in six decades, with many cities weltering above 40C. (Link)
The UK recorded 40.2C on 19th July, 2022, which was the hottest day ever recorded and UK was reeling under a massive heat wave for a couple of weeks. (Link)

The Wildfires

659,541 hectares (1.6m acres) of land burned across Europe between January and mid-August 2022, an area equivalent to one-fifth of Belgium. (Link)
More than 10 million hectares of land burned, and over a billion animals are estimated to have died by Australia's worst wildfire season that burned from last July 2019 through March 2020, with many species pushed close to extinction. (Link)
So far in 2022, more than 70,000 hectares have burnt in California in more than 5,000 fires (Link)
248,674 hectares (615,000 acres) have burned in wildfires so far this year (2022) in Spain. That's almost four times the country's full-year average of 66,965 hectares (165,000 acres) since 2006, when records began (Link)

The Droughts

From dry and cracked reservoirs in Spain to falling water levels on major arteries like the Danube, the Rhine and the Po, an unprecedented drought is afflicting nearly half of the European continent. And Europe’s dry period is expected to continue in what experts say could be the worst drought in 500 years. (Link)
UK Declares Drought in Eight Regions, Records Driest July since 1935 (Link)

The Floods

In June 2022, unprecedented amounts of rainfall caused substantial flooding, rockslides, and mudslides within Yellowstone National Park. It was the park’s most violent flood in at least a century. A disaster that eclipsed any flood there since modern record-keeping began. (Link)

Other Events

Indonesia plans to shift its capital city from Jakarta to a province called East Kalimantan. The shift in the capital is being made due to the massive environmental challenges facing Jakarta, a city that suffers from frequent flooding and is one of the fastest sinking cities of the world. (Link)
The World Bank says that at the current projections of sea level rise, the entire country of Maldives could be underwater by the year 2100. (Link)

What is my aim of proving to you all these points above? So many events are happening in just a couple of years. It doesn't require a complex recket science to actually tell us what is happening. It is just so obvious. There is probably not one country in the world, which has not faced some extreme weather event. So the next question - Why? What is it, that never produced so many extreme events in so many countries simultaneously, earlier; and is doing so now. The answer is quite obvious. Some form of heating, causing the wildfires, causing glacier meltdowns raining the water levels and flooding, causing the droughts. It's already too late, honestly. But still, we can contain some damage at least.

I am doing my reading further and will soon be coming out in some time, about measures which we, at a lay man level, can implement, to mitiate these effects. Since my 12th Grade exams are coming up, you can expect this section to come up in detail after march 2023. but please do come back. After that, I shall be regular.