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 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 now with brownish trees
The great coral reef in UAE teeming with fish in 2004
The UAE coral reefs today, the fish dead
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef many years ago
The Great Barrier Reef today
Muir Glacier in Alaska some years ago
Carbon dioxide levels in 2003
carbon dioxide levels in 2007
*These photographs originally published by Business Insider