GLOBAL WARMING CONSEQUENCES ACROSS CLIMATE, HUMAN, AND BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS
(Please Note: These pages from the new Climageddon book. There are many more serious global warming consequences than those listed below. You will find the complete list in the Climageddon book.
Read moreTHE ATLANTIC OCEAN IS ACIDIFYING AT A RAPID RATE...
A fishing boat heads out of Gloucester Harbor in Massachusetts. (Photo: John Tlumacki/Getty Images)
A new study finds it’s absorbing 50 percent more carbon than it was a decade ago, and that could have dire consequences for dolphins, whales, and other marine life...
Read moreEXXON SCRAMBLES TO CONTAIN CLIMATE CRUSADE...
Activists plan to make a public stand at Exxon’s annual shareholder meeting May 25, where several resolutions intended to force the company into acknowledging the climate threat will come to a vote. | Getty
Read moreWORLD BANK: THE WAY CLIMATE CHANGE IS REALLY GOING TO HURT US IS THROUGH WATER...
The dried-up riverbank of the Ganges is seen from a bridge in Allahabad, India, on May 3. Much of India is reeling from a heat wave and severe drought conditions that have decimated crops, killed livestock and left at least 330 million Indians without enough water for their daily needs. (Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP)
As India, the world’s second-most populous country, reels from an intense drought, the World Bank has released a new report finding that perhaps the most severe impact of a changing climate could be the effect on water supplies.
Read moreTHIS IS HOW SERIOUS INDIA'S DROUGHT HAS GOTTEN...
A child points to initials on a container on April 28 as she and other villagers line up to collect potable water at a makeshift camp in Mumbai.(Indranil Mukherjee / AFP/Getty Images)
As many as one-quarter of the country -- 330 million people -- could be affected by the shortages, the government has said...
Read moreWESTERN U.S. SNOWPACK MELTING AT RECORD SPEED...
The Natural Resources Conservation Service says the western U.S. snowpack is melting at "record speed" as U.S. temperatures from January through April 2016 were 4.0°F above average. California Department of Water Resources / Courtesy
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service issued its final "west-wide forecast" of the season this week. It shows that snowpack, from Washington to Wyoming, is melting so quickly, flooding is a possibility in some areas...
IS MOTHER NATURE FORCING US TO "KEEP IT IN THE GROUND"?
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Fort McMurray wildfire forces a quarter of Canada’s oil output off-line...
Read moreSEA-LEVEL RISE CLAIMS FIVE ISLANDS IN SOLOMONS: STUDY...
Aerial view of Marovo Lagoon, a World Heritage Site. Solomon Islands.Credit: Michael McCoy
At least 11 islands across the northern Solomon Islands have either totally disappeared over recent decades or are currently experiencing severe erosion, an Australian study shows...
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-05-sea-level-islands-solomons.html#jCp
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-05-sea-level-islands-solomons.html#jCp
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-05-sea-level-islands-solomons.html#jCp
WHO'S KILLING RENEWABLE ENERGY?
A view of the Middelgrunden offshore wind farm, which is home to 20 turbines, outside Copenhagen, Denmark. (Photo: Eskinder Debebe/U.N. via Flickr)
A promising offshore wind energy project has languished on the East Coast for 15 years—and its enemies range from a Koch brother to the Kennedys...
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