Next
Dinesh

Dinesh club

Posted: 25 Apr 2023

Taken: 20 Dec 2018

5 favorites     4 comments    36 visits

See also...

Keywords

Hawaii •
Hilo •
Excerpt •
End Times •
Author •
Bryan Welsh •

Authorizations, license

Visible by: Everyone
All rights reserved
36 visits

Climate Change

Climate Change
On a rainy, misty day

scienceviews.com/islands/hawaiianrocks.html


The black sand that makes up the famous Hawaiian black sand beaches is made out of basalt. These beaches can form rapidly when molten lava meets the cold ocean water in an explosive confrontation. The shattered volcanic rock is further broken down as it is smashed together by the waves. Black sand beaches can be relative short lived. This photo shows the black sand of Maui's Pa'iloa beach.

Nouchetdu38, J.Garcia, Heide and 2 other people have particularly liked this photo

Comments
 Dinesh
Dinesh club
Yet amid all this natural loss, human beings, on the aggregate have largely thrived. That’s definitely true compared to the days of Columbus -- the economist Angus Maddison estimates that between 1500 and 2008, global average per-capita gross domestic product multiplied by more than thirteenfold. Much of that gain has occurred in recent years, as globalization helped life more than a billion people out of extreme poverty in the developing world since 1990 alone -- the same year when environmental damage, including the first signs of climate change, began compounding. Nor is the smply a story of GDP. The Human Development Index is opposite statistic developed by the Pakistani economist Mahbub ul Haq to track life expectancy and education, as well as per capita income. . . . Page 149

While the causes of climate change are distributed around the world, the effects of warming are primarily distributed in the future. There is a time lag built into the machinery of climate change. Even if we somehow halted all man made greenhouse gas emissions today -- no more coal, no more oil, no more gasoline -- the climate would continue to warm by an additional 0.5 degrees simply because of the greenhouse gases emitted in the past, going all the way back to the Industrial Revolution. ~ page 156
17 months ago. Edited 17 months ago.
 Ecobird
Ecobird club
Well captured Dinesh and interesting and thought provoking information. Thank you
Best wishes Carol
17 months ago.
 Heide
Heide club
Better late than never...
An informative post and an impressive image, Dinesh
17 months ago.
 J.Garcia
J.Garcia club
Yes, Dinesh!!
17 months ago.

Sign-in to write a comment.