top 5 scary, yet essential facts to know:

1. the Arctic region could potentially have its first ice-free summer by 2040.
if greenhouse gases continue to be pumped this will occur.

2. climate change could be impossible to stop by 2030.
if we don't try to make change now we could see an increase
in widespread flooding, extreme heat, and drought leading to potential poverty.

3. a high number of species will go extinct.
according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,
just an increase 1.5 degrees Celsius would put 20-30% of species at risk of being extinct.

4. more wildfires will occur.
there are higher temperatures during spring and summer as a result of climate
change and when combined with drought the forests become drier and hotter
for a larger span of time. all of these events result in the increase of wildfires.

5. sea levels are rising.
within the next 80 years seas levels are expected to rise
1-4 feet as a result of the melting ice in the Antarctic regions.