What we Know About Climate Change

What we Know About Climate Change by Kerry Emanuel breaks down the complexity of what climate is and how it affects the environment. The book builds to a topic that should frighten many people. The world's climate goes through a consistent pattern. This pattern moves up and down. The high points are heat waves and the low points a cold waves. On page 45, the book shows a graph that shows that the pattern has been broken. The graph predicts two possible outcomes. The graph can continue on a steep upward line, that indicates the highest and hottest temperature the world has ever hit. The graph can also continue on a steep downward line which indicates the lowest and coldest temperature the world has hit. This can also signal a possible ice age. On page 31 Emanuel states, "The climate system, at least on short time scales, is chaotic." The word chaotic emphasize the extent to which the world's climate has been affected. It can be argued that the reason is because the world's population, consumption, and oil pollution has increased drastically in this decade. This word also shuns light at the fact that professional scientists and climate researches do not have a name or an explanation for the extreme outcomes that are being shown by graphs. The graphs also show instability of the environment's climate. This implies that there will be unpredictable out comes. If an intelligent mind, that of a scientist, can't wrap its mind around what the situation at hands is bringing, then the world's inhabitants will confront a problem. This problem is not being able to prevent whatever "chaotic" event that is coming our way. Reality bites back and if this climate change is caused by the excessive use of oil, than the same humans that consume it are the ones who have created this unpredictable, unstable, and out of the ordinary problem.