Climate change

Just a couple of days ago one of my friends told me about this documentary that Leonardo DiCaprio put together called Before the Flood. I haven't had time to watch it yet but I plan to when I get time. It talks about global warming and how the climate is changing so drastically. I don't know too much about the issue but I am very interested and plan on looking more into it. While I was going through my news stories this morning I came across an article that was talking about the same issue and giving lots of facts so I thought I would blog about it! According to the CNN article that I read, since the beginning of October for the first time we are seeing both the Arctic and Antarctic sea ice running at record low levels for this time of year. The decline of sea ice has been a key indicator that climate change in happening. Each of the 16 months leading up to September 2016 broke the global average high temperature record. September became the first month not to break a monthly all time high in nearly a year and a half. Also, in July 2016 the oceans had risen 84.8 millimeters. This is a rate of 3.4 millimeters a year. It might not seem like a lot of change but it is already effecting many coastal cities, like Miami which deals with lots of flooding. I know there are probably a lot of things I could do differently to make at least a small impact and I plan on researching and finding out more about what I can do. I hope some of you will take interest too!