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Climate Change Made Easy to Understand

And Considerably More Disturbing

Agriculture

Civilizations cannot exist without agriculture & agriculture cannot exist unless the earth’s climate is stable and predictable.

Thermal Energy

Thermal energy is what drives the weather. Thermal energy in the atmosphere is created from carbon in the CO2 molecule. The more carbon, the more thermal energy. The more thermal energy in the atmosphere, the more extreme the weather patterns will be. Extreme and unpredictable makes agriculture more difficult, if not impossible.

Carbon Cycle

When carbon is removed from the atmosphere by photosynthesis, and converted to fossil fuels, it is now out of the carbon cycle forever. This causes less thermal energy in the atmosphere. Less thermal energy means the earth’s climate becomes stable and more predictable. Agriculture and our civilization can now evolve.

The Carbon Ratio

Carbon Ratio

The amount of carbon in the atmosphere in the form of CO2 , versus the amount of carbon in the earth in the form of fossil fuels, is referred to as the Carbon Ratio. Disrupt the Carbon Ratio sufficiently and agriculture and civilization cannot continue.

Mankind is burning fossil fuels and permanently disrupting the Carbon Ratio needed for agriculture and civilization. Once the Carbon Ratio has been distorted it can never return to its original state.

The probability of our civilization continuing in its current state has already been reduced. Furthermore, there is a decade’s long delay between the moment when carbon is released into the atmosphere, and the resulting increase in thermal energy causes the climate to change. This delay is allowing mankind to continue living the way we always have, until we can’t.