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Almost nobody realizes it, but the debate about climate change is over. Scientists around the world now support the conclusion that global warming, mainly caused by greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels, is progressing.
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Carbon dioxide, greenhouse gases, greenhouse gases, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, water vapor
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Linus, Mark Modern Issues Companion: Warming Shasta * Goen * Green Heaven Press
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Almost nobody realizes it, but the debate about climate change is over. Scientists around the world now support the conclusion that global warming, mainly caused by greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels, is progressing.
A tapered band of climate "skeptic", a bunch of frontman rag tags in the oil and coal industry, retired professors and frantic obsessions are now on the defensive. Names such as Fred Singer, Philip Stott, and Bjorn Lomborg are still featured in popular publications in England and the United States, but their views are that there is no expert literature
Meanwhile, the world is beginning to unravel, as we once knew. Signs are in the UK and everywhere. Maronie, oak and ash trees are coming to the leaves for more than a week earlier than twenty years ago. Growth lasts almost all year, with 39 winter official days in 2000.
Devastating winter floods are part of this warming trend, but lowland England's snow has become a thing of the past. Where I live in Oxford, six of the past ten winters are completely snow-free-something that only happened twice during the entire 30 year period The rate of warming is now It has become so rapid that it is every single day equivalent to your garden moving 20 meters south.
Change over five continents
In other parts of the world, the signs of global warming are more dramatic. Researching a book on the subject, I witnessed a major climate-driven change across five continents, a change leaving millions homeless and at risk.
In Alaska I spent a week on the distant west coast of the state, the Eskimo village of Shishmaref, just 70 miles from the east coast of Russia. While the midnight sun was shining outside, I told the village elder Clifford Weyiouanna how frozen the ice-free sea was until Christmas. And, even when the sea ice was finally formed, he explained, it is so thin that walking and hunting is dangerous. Changing seasons are also affecting animals: Seals and walruses-a still important element of the Eskimo diet-previous transitions and most of the catch after the whole village has covered thousands of miles by boat I caught the only marine life in 2002.
Shishmaref lives in eternal fear. The cliffs where 600 strong communities are sitting were thawed, and 50 feet of ground were lost overnight during the last major storm. People fought 90 mph winds to save their home from the crash waves.
I stood on the coastline of Robert-Iyatunguk, with a coordinator of Shish-Marekh Erosion Association [2002], and look up at the left house hanging above the clifftop. "The wind gets stronger, the water gets higher, and it stands out to everyone in the town," he told me. "It just hits the hospital like a banal." In May 2002 residents completely relinquish the site-a narrow barrier island which has been continuously occupied by Eskimos for centuries- And move to other places
In Fairbanks, the main Alaska town inside, everyone says that it will warm up. The bears were getting confused because they did not know if they would stay awake or awake, and plunged to 40 degrees below zero
Around all the towns, roads are buckling and houses sagging as permafrost under them thaws. In one house, the resident, the cleaning lady and her daughter, walk up the kitchen uphill (the house was leaning to the side), wood to stop everything to prevent the shelves falling. Was abandoned. New ones are built with adjustable struts.
Drought in China
Scientists have long predicted that global warming could lead to severe floods and droughts in some places. When I visited China on the Moon [2002], the northern states of the country were in the grip of the worst drought for more than a century. The whole lake was dry, and in many places dunes cross farmer's fields I was moving forward.
One lakeside village of Gansu province was just abandoned after the old silk road off, the water dried up-apart from a few chickens and houses for a company with cows and ruins "Of course, I am lonely She yelled answering lower case questions instead of me. "Can you imagine how boring this life is? I can not do anything I can not relatives, friends, money." She was annoyed with the memories of it once, neighbors chatted late at night When exchanging stories, before the place becomes a ghost town.
A minute after I left, a dust storm blew. The popularity of these storms has grown and has not been repeated more frequently in Beijing. During the previous visit to a remote village in eastern Inner Mongolia not far from the legendary Xanadu ruins of Kubira-Khan, I experienced even more intense storms. The sun turned into a night as sand and dust blizzard scooped a mud brick building. I was alone in the house with a Mongolian farmer's family, shared the wine, how the grass once grew to the height of the waist in the surrounding plains Now the land from the arid desert Even thanks to persistent drought and overgrazing. The storm was furious for hours. It eased late afternoon and when the sun reappeared, the village's cockerels rang, thinking it was coming early in the morning.
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Droughts in northwestern China are partially triggered by rising temperatures, which reduce outflows from nearby mountains, which are less covered by snow and ice than ever, and contraction of glaciers crosses the world's mountain range It is also a recurring phenomenon, and I also descent from alpine disease in the high Andes 5,200 meters above the capital, Lima, Peru
A senior manager of the Lima water authority later told me that melting ice is a serious threat to future freshwater supplies. When the glacier disappears, the river flows only in the rainy season. The same problem afflicts the Indian subcontinent: millions of people overwhelmingly dependent on the mighty Ganges, Indus and Brahmaputra flows from the Himalayas
Decline over the next century.
If alternative water supply can not be secured, Lima will be sparsely decentralized, as people are dispersed
Environmental refugees. This is a category already familiar to the residents of Tuvalu, a group of nine coral atolls in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Tuvalu, along with Kiribati, the Maldives and many other island nations, becomes well known to the global community, and 75 people are evacuated to New Zealand every year
I first saw how the island was already affected by rising sea level rise, while paddling with deep floods of knees [2002] spring tide, much of Funafuti later that same evening country Prime Minister Toaripi Lauti, after his first independence, found his own crop of Plaka (root vegetables like sunken holes) that die from the intrusion of saltwater He who everyone, that coconut trees Crashed, destroyed by the rising sea, washed away by the waves, and saw that one of the islets at the edge of the atoll disappeared from the horizon
Stop the catastrophe of climate change
However, although the impact of severe climate change seems to be spreading, like the coal mine canary, if nothing is done to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the United Nations-led Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Scientists at the conference under the flag of) will take the Earth to a dangerous unknown waters, scientists of the Hadley Center in the UK [21 on January 2003], up to six degrees Celsius alone Due to global warming, we reported that the complexity of the carbon cycle could be even greater.
The IPCC worst case forecasts can prove almost unimaginably catastrophic. 251 million years ago, the worst crisis ever hit life on earth, which led to the death of 95 percent of all species alive at the time.
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