Number 1: 3/8/2023
I plan on posting a series of diagrams and graphs that I find interesting in explaining the crises caused by global warming. I have long learned a great deal from graphic presentations, which can convey many forms of information quickly and do not require a linear string of words to make a point. Although if you are reading this, you probably already know much about the ideas that I have chosen to illustrate. I will give the source of the diagram so that you can investigate further.
PROBLEMS CREATED BY GLOBAL WARMING
This first set of two diagrams illustrates the interconnection among many environmental systems. Global warming is only one huge ecosystem that has become the focus of human attention because we humans can see that we are directly affected by its changes in our daily lives. We also see that the interconnections within the ecosystem are far greater than was imagined, even by scientists. We have been blinded by the goods and services of the modern world that allow longer life, better health, better communications, and luxuries unknown until recently.
Job One for Humanity
This graphic presentation from Job One for Humanity shows the extraordinary interconnections that are occurring because of global warming. These consequences are world wide and affect vast regions of the world and billions of people and other organic life. I think Job One for Humanity is the best general internet site concerned with both the scientific background and the practical aspects of global warming. I urge you to investigate its resources at joboneforhumanity.org
Wickiwand.com
This diagram shows the direct effect that excess amounts of green house gases (GHG) have on global warming of the Earth.(Shown in Pink.) Further, it indicates that agricultural practices, deforestation, and fossil fuels are basic emitters of GHG. Some of the major ecological processes that are most directly affected by global warming are (shown in Green). In turn, the affected processes interact with humans (shown in blue) both directly through stress in overheating the body and in precipitating many social, political, and economic problems. These processes also are responsible for triggering back further releases of GHG into the atmosphere (called feedback and shown in red).
The causes of global warming and the effects on natural process that, in turn, effect humans are easy to grasp. Any one of these processes is easily researched on the internet. I will return to many elements of this and about thirty other diagrams. Report 2 will show diagrams about land use change.