A recent study has stated that natural forces and causes are nothing compared to what the people are doing to planet Earth. Climate change is in its fastest because of human beings and their activities.
For the first billion years that the planet Earth existed, it was because of the natural causes and astronomical factors that change it. However, The Guardian has reported that in the past years, the human beings and their toxic activities are what causing the change that is happening. The humans are causing climate change and it is 170 times faster than ever.
According to New York Post, Professor Will Steffen has developed an equation that can calculate human activity that causes the climate change. He, with his co-researcher Owen Gaffney of the Stockholm Resilience Centre, came up with the "Anthropocene Equation". Steffen is a climate change expert and researcher at the Australian National University. His paper about the equation was published in the journal "The Anthropocene Review".
The Australian National University has explained that human beings and their activities have led to the increase of greenhouse gas emissions during the past 45 years. They further explained that the evidence is the temperature rising to 1.7 degree Celsius per century. Climate change is happening not only because of human activities but the natural forces and other astronomical happenings are nothing compared to it.
The professor with his co-researcher has created the equation by "homing in on the rate of change of Earth's life support system." They included everything in the environment like the atmosphere, oceans, forests, wetlands, waterways and ice sheets.
When they measured the environment and other specifications, they found out that the atmosphere is definitely in its highest state in the last 66 million years. According to the researcher, many other factors have led to their conclusion, like the loss of biodiversity and the industrialization of societies.
On the other hand, the professors said that there is still a big chance for everything to change. Climate change can still be stopped and it is the human beings who can do it.
