What is global warming? Is the world heating up? Are all the claims about greenhouse gas emissions just empty talk? Or are there figures to support arguments that global warming, the world’s greatest environmental threat, is happening...right now? The year 2005 was the warmest on record , jointly with 1998. Perhaps more disturbing is the fact that the 10 warmest years globally since 1856 have occurred in the last 15 years. Figures compiled by the UK Meteorological Office and the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia for the World Meteorological Organisation, show that, in descending order, the 11 warmest years ever measured have been: 1998 & 2005 (joint), 2002 & 2003 (joint), 2001, 1997, 1995, 1990 & 1999 (joint), 1991 & 2000 (joint). Global warming does not happen by default. It is a man-made problem. Every bit of coal, every litre of oil or gas that humans burn adds to the load of gases in the atmosphere that engulf the planet like an ever thicker ...
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...
What's happening to our world? Hurricanes in the Caribbean and the United States. Extensive droughts in eastern Africa, Australia, southern Europe and parts of China and India. Uncontrollable floods in many parts of the world, sometimes preceded by a long drought. Is this all perfectly normal? Or is the increased intensity of these extraordinary events something we should be worried about? Fish moving from the Irish Sea to the north Atlantic around Shetland, in search of cooler waters. Forests in Alaska dying off because of swarms of pests which thrive in the warm winters. Coral reefs unable to cope with warming seas, bleaching and dying more rapidly. The impacts of a warming world are scary enough when considered one by one. The view becomes apocalyptic when one looks at them together. We still have time to avoid the worst – but we need to act now. It's urgent! How do you grow crops in the snow? Rising sea levels are not the only problem caused my melting ice. ...
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