While the concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased by nearly twice since the beginning of the industrial revolution in the mid-18th century, the amount of methane in the atmosphere has increased by nearly twice that amount in the same time period.

This is a problem for the atmosphere, since this particular greenhouse gas just happens to be many times more efficient at trapping the sun’s long-wave radiation that’s responsible for planetary warming.

Landfills are just one service way that excess planetary methane is created. Though significant amounts are also caused by all the collected flatus of cows and volcanoes, landfill-generated methane is extremely powerful. It is, in fact, over 70 times more powerful a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. It is expected that methane released today will still be detectable in the atmosphere a century in the future.

It’s one thing to be getting accustomed to severe storms. It’s another to live outside the range of hurricanes and then wake up to a tropical storm bearing down on you. This is exactly how recent years have gone and you don’t know what could happen in the future as normal doesn’t apply anymore.

This was certainly true a few months ago when people didn’t think to have a tornado escape plan. Also you could say the same for Oregonians who are acquainted with the sort of dry seasons that Californians can now only dream about. Ask those people who wrecked their motors trying to avoid a blizzard in Los Angeles or the truckers that got stuck in mountains in early August through a complete white out. You’ll have to be prepared for this weather chaos as even more violent and dangerous weather all caused by human.

One of the major problems with climate change is the rise in sea levels, a total of 8 inches on a global average since the mid 19th century. Some nations could disappear if the trend continues, with places like the Maldives, Tuvalu and Kiribati becoming part of the ocean. If the rise continues then places like New Guinea and Papua New Guinea could be underwater by 2020.

The corals are now starting to disappear in the Pacific Islands due to the higher temperature.

In the last few years the talk has been about climate change, what with the disappearing ice caps and polar bears. The erratic weather though has been on the mind of researchers for years.

When researchers were studying the cause if ice age, they noticed that when carbon dioxide levels were high the temperature seemed to rise. This was first noticed in the 17th century, and it was thought at the time that it would take over 500 years to get to a critical state. Due to the increase use of petroleum the critical state has been reached in half that time.