Ecotasia's video: The Basics of Global Warming: How it Works Why it is Bad How to Stop it

Clarification: I mention how melting snow and drought cause fires, bringing up the 2019 Amazon fires. The Amazon fires where partially due to clearing the forest and partially a shifting climate due to the deforestation in addition to climate change. California wildfire seasons are a better example of snow melt/drought due to global warming increasing fire risk this is meant as a very basic introduction, watch other creators like Our Changing Climate, Hot Mess, or Climate Town for more in-depth discussions. In 1896, Swedish physicist turned chemist Svate Arrhenius wanted to explain ice ages calculated that humans burning coal would be enough to warm Earth’s climate. The sun gives off energy in the form of light, some of which passes through the atmosphere, some is absorbed as heat, but much is reflected back into space. greenhouse gasses though, reflect this energy back at Earth giving them more of a chance of being absorbed, warming the lower atmosphere and ground. With these simple rules and facts you now understand how human caused climate change works. This change has many negative impacts including melting ice, sea level rise, increased storm power, more fires, ocean acidification, tropical mountain species extinctions, and even parts of the world becoming uninhabitable to people, causing chaos in our civilization. To stop this destruction we need to become carbon neutral, using renewable low carbon energy, likely also cutting back. We need to protect the carbon sinks, like the tropical rainforests. Meisenbach Riffarth & Co. Leipzig., 1909, Svante Arrhenius (* 19. Februar 1859 auf Gut Wik bei Uppsala; † 2. Oktober 1927 in Stockholm), Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie, Band 69, 1909 Sources Svante Arrhenius, 1908, Das Werden der Welten (Worlds in the making; the evolution of the universe), Academic Publishing House, Leipzig, 208 pages. Arrhenius, Svante (1896). "On the influence of carbonic acid in the air upon the temperature of the ground" (PDF). The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science. 41 (251): 237–276. doi:10.1080/14786449608620846. (in video) "Water vapour: feedback or forcing?". RealClimate. 6 April 2005. Retrieved 1 May 2006. Held, Isaac M.; Soden, Brian J. (November 2000). "Water vapor feedback and global warming". Annual Review of Energy and the Environment. 25 (1): 441–475. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.22.9397. doi:10.1146/annurev.energy.25.1.441. ISSN 1056-3466. Nauels, Alexander; Rogelj, Joeri; Schleussner, Carl-Friedrich; Meinshausen, Malte; Mengel, Matthias (1 November 2017). "Linking sea level rise and socioeconomic indicators under the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways". Environmental Research Letters. 12 (11): 114002. Bibcode:2017ERL....12k4002N. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/aa92b6. Rosane, Olivia (October 30, 2019). "300 Million People Worldwide Could Suffer Yearly Flooding by 2050". Ecowatch. Retrieved 31 October 2019. Winkelmann, Ricarda; Levermann, Anders; Ridgwell, Andy; Caldeira, Ken (11 September 2015). "Combustion of available fossil fuel resources sufficient to eliminate the Antarctic Ice Sheet". Science Advances. 1 (8): e1500589. Bibcode:2015SciA....1E0589W. doi:10.1126/sciadv.1500589. PMC 4643791. PMID 26601273. Anthony, KRN; et al. (2008). "Ocean acidification causes bleaching and productivity loss in coral reef builders". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105 (45): 17442–17446. Bibcode:2008PNAS..10517442A. doi:10.1073/pnas.0804478105. PMC 2580748. PMID 18988740. Williams, Allyson A. J.; Karoly, David J.; Tapper, Nigel (2001-04-01). "The Sensitivity of Australian Fire Danger to Climate Change". Climatic Change. 49 (1–2): 171–191. doi:10.1023/A:1010706116176. ISSN 0165-0009. "Wildfire Season Is Scorching the West". www.climatecentral.org. Retrieved 2018-03-06. Sherwood, Steven C.; Huber, Matthew (19 November 2009). "An adaptability limit to climate change due to heat stress". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107 (21): 9552–9555. Bibcode:2010PNAS..107.9552S. doi:10.1073/pnas.0913352107. PMC 2906879. PMID 20439769. Mooney, Chris (22 October 2014). "There's a surprisingly strong link between climate change and violence". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 12 May 2015. IPCC (2014). "Summary for Policymakers" (PDF). IPCC AR5 WG2 A 2014. pp. 1–32. "Appendix 8.A" (PDF). Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report. p. 731. Nobre, Carlos; Lovejoy, Thomas E. (February 1, 2018). "Amazon Tipping Point". Science Advances. 4 (2): eaat2340. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aat2340. ISSN 2375-2548. PMID 29492460. Sergei Zimov (2007): “Mammoth Steppes and Future Climate.” In: Science in Russia, pages 105–112. Article found in: www.pleistocenepark.ru/en/ – Materials. Retrieved 5 May 2013.