CLIMATE- An alarming doodle. This Friday, April 22 at the Earth Day 2022Google has replaced its homepage logo with four animated images that illustrate how the climate change affected the earth. You will be able to see the evolution of four places in recent years: the Kilimanjaro, the Columbia Glacier, the Great Barrier Reef, the forests of the Harz.
When you click on the image, Google provides search trends and information related to the climate change† Since last year, the search engine has noticed a growing interest among French people in these themes. Citizens largely conducted the following searches: “Eco-responsible clothing brand (+700%)”, “When did global warming start? (+500%)” and “How to limit global warming? (+200%)”.
This warming of the average temperature, which is undoubtedly related to human activity, started more than a century ago, as you can see in the video at the top of this article† The more time passes, the more the measurement of temperature variations shows anomalies, ie a exceedance from the usual average.
The various visualizations created from data such as those provided by NASA (United States), HadCRUT (Great Britain) or even Météo France show more and more systematic exceedances, especially in the last two decades. A kind of excitement that IPCC researchers have been warning about for years and that perfectly sums up these animations.
In the fight against global warming, there seems to have been a turning point since COP21 and regarding: climate commitment younger generations. But such a heavy trend is hard to bend, especially when momentum shows no signs of slowing down. “For the seventh consecutive year, the global temperature has risen by more than 1 degree Celsius above pre-industrial levels,” the WMO laments. The goal of the Paris Agreement is to keep this warming at 1.5° Celsius by 2100.
Seen State pledges at COP26“All this is theoretically possible, but we have to act quickly. In his latest report the IPCC estimates that we will only succeed if we act now: emissions must reach a peak from 2025 and fall very sharply from 2030.
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