five reasons why a warmer winter is a bad sign of climate changeThis past winter was the warmest on record across they Northern Hemisphere of the Earth. Scientist Ilissa Ocko of the Environmental Defense Fund identifies reasons why these warmer winters are so alarming.
Read her article here Vulnerability of crops globallyExtreme weather events and the warmest winter recorded ever can be leading to food scarcity and price inflation. This will affect everyone's wallet. It also will create hundreds of thousands of hunger refugees.
Read the article in Bloomberg Green The human imperative to stabilize climate changeScience Magazine, September 20, 2019. Climate change will be the greatest threat to humanity and global ecosystems in the coming years, and there is a pressing need to understand and communicate the impacts of warming, across the perspectives of the natural and social sciences. Hoegh-Guldberg … See the whole report here.
Rapidly Melting Greenland ice sheet in picturesIn 2019 the Greenland Ice Sheet melted at the rate of 1 million metric tons per minute. This rate of melting is much faster than scientists predicted. The temperature of the oceans depends on this ice sheet and the one in Antartica.
See the situation of the Greenland Ice Sheet in pictures from The Guardian. is climate change the hidden driver behind so many climate refugees?We wonder why many thousands of Central Americans are gathered at the southern border of the U.S.A. The perspective in this carefully researched paper demonstrates that climate change is already turning people who were living sustainable lives in their own countries into global warming refugees. This will only get worse and become worldwide as the earth warms up another degree by 2050 unless we act quickly to turn this warming direction around.
Report from the American Security Project. Climate Change and Migration in Central America's Northern Triangle Businesses - Need for SustainabilityMcKinsey Reports This company guides businesses and corporations as they plan for success in the future. This report is an excellent analysis for businesses as they get ready for growth in a developing environment-conscious economy.
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If the water level of the oceans rises ...6 more feet, this is what the coastline of the U.S. will be like at the end of the 21st Century. People of the world living in areas underwater or too hot for living will be on the move. Many will be climate refugees. This map shows what the U.S. will be like by then and where 13 million displaced Americans will probably be trying to move.
This map does not estimate how many people will be trying lto get into the U.S. from other countries.
The map is from a journal entry in PLOS One, an online page of the Public Library of Science. The article by Citylab was published in early February, 2020. Read the article River of Gold - destroying thre amazonThe Amazon River and its tributaries contain 20% of the earth's fresh water. Illegal gold mining along its tributaries is deforesting the area, removes tons of earth from the banks and turns it into mud a it extracts gold. It takes 200 tons of earth to extract enough gold for one ring. They poison the water with mercury as they refine the ore.
The indigenous persons they hire to operate the equipment wind up being poisoned themselves. Watch the trailer (posted above) of the documentary produced by the Amazon Aid Society. When the mining operations leave an area they simply move upriver a few hundred yards to repeat the process. The whole area is left a poisonous mudhole. Contribute to the work of the Amazon Aid Society on our Actions Page. ancient viruses found in tibetan iceScientists who examined ice in a Tibetan glacier that was formed 15,000 years ago have found 28 ancient viruses that do not exist today. Further tests are being done to see if any of them may be harmful to life in our world today. Who knows what climate warming and the melting of ancient ice may release. Maybe new diseases are really ancient ones that had disappeared.
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