In Pictures: Tell tale signs our world messed up by climate change

In Pictures: Tell tale signs our world messed up by climate change

Sunday, November 1, 2015 7:52 am


If one thinks that concerns about global warming and climate change are exaggerated by scientists and busybody politicians, one has got to think again.

Tell tale photographs about how global warming is messing up our planet Earth bring home the problem most profoundly.

At the rate we are going, with rivers drying up, towns and villages disappearing in the ocean, glaciers thawing, forests browning, mankind may need to begin thinking of migrating to Mars, very soon.

Let’s begin, with Lake Chad:

Lake Chad, world's 6th largest lake in the 1930s

Lake Chad, world’s 6th largest lake in the 1930s

Lake Chad today: it has lost 80 per cent of its water surface, caused by global warming, irrigation and damming of rivers

Lake Chad today: it has lost 80 per cent of its water surface, caused by global warming, irrigation and damming of rivers

Rocky Mountain National Park In NW United States and Canada with healthy pine trees years ago

Rocky Mountain National Park In NW United States and Canada with healthy pine trees years ago

Rocky Mountain now with brownish trees

Rocky Mountain now with brownish trees

The great coral reef in UAE teeming with fish in 2004

The great coral reef in UAE teeming with fish in 2004

The UAE coral reefs today, depleted of fish

The UAE coral reefs today, the fish dead

Ausralia's Great Barrier Reef many years ago

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef many years ago

The Great Barrier Reef today

The Great Barrier Reef today

Muir Glacier in Alaska some years ago

Muir Glacier in Alaska some years ago

Muir Glacier site today

Muir Glacier site today

Carbon dioxide levels in 2003

Carbon dioxide levels in 2003

carbon dioxide levels in 2007

carbon dioxide levels in 2007

*These photographs originally published by Business Insider

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