Global Effects and Global Consequences
National Research Council today issued the most comprehensive study of climate change to date. The reports are part of a congressionally requested suite of five studies known as America’s Climate Choices.
National Research Council today issued the most comprehensive study of climate change to date. The reports are part of a congressionally requested suite of five studies known as America’s Climate Choices.
Our water resources and freshwater ecosystems are in danger
A bitter wind has been blowing over parts of North America, Europe and Asia. Some places have been colder than ever, like Melbourne, Fla., which dipped to 28 degrees last Thursday, a record low. Europe has been walloped by snowstorm after snowstorm.
Newly released study shows that the average ecosystem will need to shift a quarter of a mile each year in order to stay in its ideal temperature range.
Reduction of the rainforests, continued growth in hydrocarbon industries, increases in livestock, and depletion of the ozone are all considered factors in the debate.
A temperature rise of no more than 2 °C is widely acknowledged as the ‘safe’ level to avoid dangerous climate change.
Global warming is a complex phenomenon, and its full-scale impacts are hard to predict far in advance.