Article- After Hottest Year On Record, Ocean Warming Is Now 'Unstoppable', Josh L Davis, July 17, 2015, http://www.iflscience.com/environment/hottest-year-record-ocean-warming-now-unstoppable
Topic: Ocean Warming
Summary:
In 2014, sea levels, ocean warming, greenhouse gasses, and land temperatures all hit the highest record; as well as, the melting of glaciers and tropical storms reached its highest peek. 413 independent scientists from 58 countries conducted a study that lead them to their findings that our climate is not only changing in temperature, but also in the ocean and outer atmosphere. They claim that if we cut down the greenhouse gases it would not stop the effect of ocean warming; we have reached our tipping point and we can not fix it. The rest of the article provides graphs of their findings. Europe and Africa hit the highest record for high- temperature records for global warming. As sea surface average temperature escalate, sea levels start to rise; cyclones, and sea ice and glaciers continue to melt rapidly. Finally, high sea levels can cause more cyclones and storms that can bring negative impacts to people's lives that live near the water.
I chose this article because it reminded me about another article that I did on climate change: the effects it had on polar bears' habitat and diet. The thing that I found most interesting was that we have reached the tipping point, and there is no way of going back and fixing it. This connects to the polar bear article because this article proves that climate change is causing major impacts to the environment.
This article is important to environmental science because climate change is a major issue that causes debates. Climate change has already caused impacts on our environment, but as we keep harming it, it would only get worse. Our next step is to make people see that climate change is a reality, and is caused by us. We have to spread awareness and start making changes before it's to late.
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