Fri Mar 6, 2015

BY RICHARD TSAI

According to major monitors of global temperatures like Nasa and Noaa, 2014 happened to be earth’s hottest year ever recorded to this day, setting a dangerous precedent for what is to come in the coming decades in terms of the impact climate change will bring.

California, already an example of one of the latest victims of climate change, has just went through three consecutive years of some of the worst droughts ever experienced. The estimated cost of drought on the state, which produces nearly half of United States’ produce, are expected to cost 2.2 billion dollars and 17000 jobs for the state, according to a report by scientists from University of California in Davis last year.

Climate negotiators are already meeting in United Nations conference in Geneva to reach a climate deal in Paris by this year’s December, which aims to prevent global surface temperature from overshooting 2 degrees Celsius.

As climate change becomes an increasingly pressing issue for world leaders to act, every individual living on this planet has the responsibility to take action now to minimize human impact towards the earth. There are ways of taking action on climate change listed on the United Nations’ website, please visit http://www.un.org/climatechange/take-action/ for more information on ways to create a better future for the world.