Climate change

Climate change the earth is a finely-balanced machine designed to run just-so. The Antarctic needs to be iced to cool the heat coming up from down south. If this changes, the engine stops running.

The polar ice-caps reflect 90% of the sun rays, yet a small temperature increase of just 1ºC can cause these ice-caps to melt. This results in an increase in sun rays, causing the caps to melt faster with further sun rays escalating the melting in a vicious circle. The closest analogy is of the earth heating up like an oven.

You may wonder why warmer weather is bad: Scientists claim a rise in the earth’s temperature of more than 3ºC will see countries disappearing under rising waters from the melting ice-caps. Many places will become uninhabitable in the sweltering heat, particularly the southern hemisphere. With more than 700 million people at risk, the number of refugees would be staggering.