Hi, welcome to Victor Rod. Today I am going to talk about climate change. Over the last 10 years, sea levels have risen at an alarming rate. Biodeiversity is reportedly declining faster than at any time in human history. Then millions of people have been affected by extreme weather, like hurricanes and floods. Scientists overwhelmably agree that our climate is changing. Earth is getting warmer, sea levels are rising and it's primarily because of humans putting lots of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Whether you believe or not, this video is for you. Is climate change real? There is a broad-based agreement within the scientific community that climate change is real. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration concurred that climate change is indeed occurring and is almost certainly due to human activity. Scientific evidence for warming of the climate system is unequivocal. The evidence for rapid climate change is compelling. This graph, based on the comparison of atmospheric samples contained in ice cores and more recent direct measurements, provides evidence that atmospheric CO2 has increased since the industrial revolution. Sea level rise. Global sea level has been rising over the past century, and the rate has increased in recent decades. In 2014, the global sea level was 2.6 inches above the 1993 average, the highest annual average in the satellite record. Sea level continues to rise at a rate of about 1 eighth of an inch per year. Extreme events are natural phenomena that generally occur over very short time scales of hours to days to weeks. Extreme events include tropical cyclones, hurricanes, typhoons, tornadoes, floods, heat and cold waves, wildfires, earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions. These events can have significant, sometimes catastrophic direct impacts on the environment and humans. Major extreme events are referred to as natural disasters. Warmings. The oceans of the world are warming up, their average temperatures pushed higher and higher each year by human caused global warming. The oceans have absorbed much of this increased heat, with the top 700 meters, about 2,300 feet, of ocean showing warming of more than 0.4 degrees Fahrenheit since 1969. Decreased snow cover. While snow cover affects climate, changes in climate also affects snow cover. Overall, warmer temperatures are shortening the amount of time snow as on the ground in the northern hemisphere. Satellite observations reveal that the amount of spring snow cover in the northern hemisphere has decreased over the past five decades and that the snow is melting earlier. Glacial retreat. The retreat of mountain glaciers, notably in western North America, Asia, the Alps and Tropical and subtropical regions of South America, Africa, and Indonesia, provide evidence for the rise in global temperatures since the late 19th century. The acceleration of the rate of retreat since 1995 of key outlet glaciers of the Greenland and West End Tarkticae's sheets may foreshadow a rise in sea level, which would affect coastal regions. The cost of our success is the exhaustion of natural resources, leading to energy crises, climate change, pollution, and the destruction of our habitat. If you exhaust natural resources, there will be nothing left for your children. If we continue in the same direction, humankind is headed for some frightful ordeals, if not extinction.