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Climate Change Is Causing The Upper Atmosphere To Cool, And The Side Effects Are Terrifying
It turns out carbon emissions are far more damaging than we thought.
You might think that climate change is causing temperatures to rise. However, a recent study has shown this isn’t the case. You see, the increased levels of carbon dioxide generated by humanity's rampant use of fossil fuels, is causing the upper layers of our atmosphere to rapidly cool. This might sound like a good thing, but in actuality, it will cause some catastrophically adverse knock-on effects, from deadly extreme weather, to eroding the Earth’s life — protecting ozone layer and even potentially destroying satellites. But how is carbon dioxide cooling the upper atmosphere? How does a cooler upper atmosphere cause these destructive side effects? And is there anything we can do to stop this?
Climate scientists suspected for decades that the upper atmosphere would cool as carbon dioxide levels rose, and climate change started to bite, as their climate models suggested it would. However, only recently have scientists been able to take regular systemic measurements of the temperatures of the upper atmosphere. A recent study used detailed measurements from satellites to show that, indeed, the upper atmosphere is cooling. This is yet another bit of…
