Important Information About Our Shared Climate


As of February 2025, the level of carbon in our atmosphere is 427 parts per million (ppm).
We need to work together to bring this down to 350 ppm to prevent runaway global warming.

How to track the rising levels of CO2 each month
https://www.co2.earth/daily-co2

Go carbon neutral 
https://ostromclimate.com/purchase-offsets/

Make climate action your first priority when voting
Nobody likes to spend money on groceries. But this problem is minor compared with the catastrophic long-term damage that will occur if our planet continues to heat up - and we are still in the early stages. There is no limit to how terrible the consequences could become, if allowed to run unchecked. We have to stop polluting our atmosphere at some point, and if we do it now, we can ensure a livable future for our descendants.

Divest from fossil fuels and invest in the renewable sector instead
Many people have invested money in oil, gas, and coal. They can simply begin to invest and make money in the renewable sector instead.  When humanity discovered that asbestos and DDT were dangerous, we adjusted and stopped using those toxic substances. We can do the same with planet-destroying fossil fuels.

Rising sea levels will inundate every coastal city
The melting of the massive Greenland and East Antarctic ice sheets will raise sea levels by as much as sixty feet by the beginning of the next century, permanently submerging every coastal city on the planet.

Refugees
People whose ecosystems are destroyed by drought, superstorms, flooding, and wildfires will seek to move to more stable areas. If we do not stop climate change now, there could eventually be hundreds of millions of refugees around the world trying desperately to migrate to better places - a process which has already begun. This will lead to terrible conflicts over dwindling arable land and resources. We must stop global warming before we reach that point.



                                           Common Misconceptions

"In some places it is actually sometimes cooler."
As rising temperatures around the world disrupt the normal climate patterns, we will see more and more extremes and anomalies of all kinds. The important measurement is the combined total of temperatures from across the planet. This combined sum is what heats the oceans. 

"What we do will not make a difference because China is the biggest polluter."
For all of its problems, China is currently the world leader in renewable energy, which accounts for over 70% of its total energy production. The United States and Canada are falling behind in investing in these new technologies, which will inevitably spread around the world.

"We are an oil-based economy and cannot change."
We can change. Renewable energy is already cheaper to generate than fossil fuel energy. If governments stopped subsidizing the oil and gas sector and supported renewable energy instead, the cheaper and cleaner advanced technologies of solar, wind, and geothermal would even-more quickly replace fossil fuel generation.

"I hear many things online that contradict the idea of human-caused climate change."
Oil companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars to lobby and persuade politicians to spread misinformation about the dangers of climate change, and even to deny its existence. These lobbies also fund a small handful of quack "scientists" to spread misinformation - they are actually lobbyists rather than scientists and do not publish in scientific journals - which is then amplified online by uneducated readers. The scientific debate ended forty years ago.


                                                     Other Resources

Sabin Center for Climate Change Law
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2025/01/22/sabin-centers-online-tracking-tools-monitor-government-actions-on-climate-change/