Global Warming 101
Global warming could do more than just melt polar ice. It could change our maps, and displace people from cities and tropical islands.
climate change is happening now
Scientific proof: climate change is happening now The world is warming faster than at any time in the last 12,000 years. The 1990s was the hottest decade in the past millennium. As global warming tightens its grip, the effects are being felt from the highest mountain peaks to the depths of the oceans. In just the last few years there are numerous examples of how this is affecting people and nature all over the world. Global warming is melting glaciers in every region of the world, putting millions of people at risk from floods, droughts and lack of drinking water. March 2006 showed the smallest Arctic sea ice cover ever measured. In the space of one year an area about the size of Italy was lost. The National Snow and Ice Data Center in the United States found that sea ice extent had reduced by 300,000 square km in comparison to March 2005, itself already a record low year. 2003, Scotland's hottest year on record, saw hundreds of adult salmon die in Scotl...
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