Intro: Why the climate bubble is invisible?

 You can smell the aroma of a flower, taste the flavor of your favorite meal or feel the humidity of a rainy day, but you will never be able to feel the climate.

The climate is the average of thousands of daily atmospheric conditions, and our bodies are not made to feel averages, rather we feel instantaneous stimuli. But certainly we can understand the climate by either processing meteorological data in a simple computer software or by analyzing our stored memories of the atmospheric conditions of certain place where we have lived for several years in the past.

In a global scale, the world is getting warmer. Several observations had been done for the last centuries and detailed analysis using state-of-the-art statistic tools and advanced processing of uncertainties had confirmed the rapidly increment in temperatures.

2000’s surface temperature anomalies relative to 1951-1980 period. Hansel et al. 2010

If perceiving the climate involves a processing of data, then perceiving climate change implies, by definition, a second degree of processing. That is why it’s too hard for our brains to conceive climate change without the help of a computer that plot trends and changes in the main global physical variables such as temperature, precipitation, sea ice level, and so on.

The pathway that climate change will arrive to our lives is through its impacts, which represent an important risk to the stability of all natural and human systems. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) classifies the impact drivers as follows:

Source: IPCC, 2013.

This blog aims to bring closer the climate change reality to us, the normal citizens. It will make us realize that even-though is hard to understand it and feel it, climate change is a bubble that already surround us and it will impact into all the aspects of our lives: our morning coffee, the clothes we wear or the diseases that we will be exposed to.

We will explore from each of our daily spheres how climate change is playing an important role and what can we do to face this challenge.