An Inconvenient (and steadily approaching) Truth

So lets get down to business. We all know that I'm going to have fun with the kangaroos and the koala bears of the Australian wilderness but I've also got some important work to do.

Now this may seem like a joke...because..well it is but don't let the funny cartoon medium fool you. Climate change is something real and scientific evidence proves that if humans (mainly developed countries) don't change their behavior soon then we will start experiencing unfavorable climate effects.
 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) release a "Summary for Policymakers" this year which consolidated information from multiple scientific observations of the climate system. In this report scientists outline changes in atmosphere, sea level and air pollution. There are also handy visualizations which show you projections for this phenomenon if human activity doesn't change in years to come such as this one:

My final opinion of this report was that it was helpful but only to those with the patience to dredge through the science and get the facts. To a layman it would come off as wordy and filled with overwhelming science lingo making reference to levels of certainty that might make the average person's head explode.

A panel of scientific minded journalists foresaw this and published "What We Know". It was their own report based off of information in the IPPC's literature that they thought was important. They also made connections between climate change and political activity. They really told it like it was using definite language that was so strong that report seemed like a call to action. Some may say this is alarmist but the firm language in tangent with easily understood statistics may be just what the average person needs to understand and acknowledge a phenomenon that has been extorted by the government and the media. The point is that both reports aim to inform people that climate change is neither a myth nor is it disagreed upon in the science world. It is here and now but we can manage its effect via legislation and minimizing our own biological footprint.

But WHAT about Aussieland?! Well Australia is a great place to look at what's going on with nature. As I mentioned in my last post most of the population lives near the coast meaning that there is a lot of untouched nature to study and compare. There is also the ocean which surrounds the continent and houses the Great Barrier Reef which has experienced bleaching problem directly relation to environmental unrest. This doesn't mean that the population won't feel it too. Australians are already no strangers to droughts and brush fires that we Texans know all too well. The 20th century brought on one of the worse rain deficiencies in Australian history from which they recovered in 2012 but as we all should know by now it only takes a matter of time for history and for science to repeat itself.
If you'd like to know more about the IPCC report and the claims made in "What We Know" check out the New York Times article below:
Scientists Sound Alarm on Climate Change

It really delves into the information I've been researching and it is an example of the work that I will be burning the midnight oil to produce.

Now Reduce, Reuse and go learn about climate change!