Arfin, According to a shocking new study, climate change's effects have accelerated beyond floods, fires, and heatwaves — the changing climate is now altering time itself.
It sounds like a science fiction novel, but it's very real, and very grim. The melting of the polar ice caps is sending water in large quantities toward the equator — and this shift in mass is literally making Earth spin faster, changing the way we tell time.
The computers that most parts of our society increasingly rely on — from hospital systems to GPS to financial markets — will need to be perfectly synced up in order to avoid disaster. And if gone unchecked, what's to say these shifts in time won't get more intense, risking further complications to our societal systems?
This is yet another sign that we need to be taking climate change far more seriously.
As a part of the 2015 Paris Agreement, developed nations promised $100 million to poorer countries so they could shift energy infrastructure away from fossil fuels and prepared for extreme weather events. But not only have countries like the US and those in Europe failed to fulfill this financial promise — climate experts now say that far more money is needed to properly address climate change in developing countries.
We must urge the US and countries in the EU to meet and exceed their financial commitments to developing countries so that the entire globe can avoid climate disaster — sign the petition to add your name! |
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