Climate Change Report Predicts Tragedies November 2, 2013 According to a new report, starvation, poverty, flooding, heat waves, droughts, war and disease are likely to worsen as the world warms from man-made climate change. The Nobel Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report describes how global warming is already … Continue reading
Category Archives: Environment
Decimation of Species
Without Action, Warming to Decimate Species Diversity (Op-Ed) On June 26, 2013 President Obama announced a Climate Action Plan to address the enormous and growing costs of climate change. He talked about the impacts of climate change on society — devastating natural disasters like Hurricane Sandy, raging wildfires, diminished snowpacks, … Continue reading
Endangered Species
On the Brink: Climate Change Endangers Common Species LiveScience.com – 05/12/2013 A wide variety of plants and animals are likely to become much less common if something isn’t done to avert the worst effects of a warming climate, new research suggests. Under a “business as usual” scenario, where greenhouse gas … Continue reading
Inconclusive Doha climate talks, questionable future
The conclusion to 2012’s talks in Doha, Qatar, which created a bridge from the old climate regime to a new one, set the stage for a cliffhanger in 2015, when a new comprehensive agreement will have to be reached. It reaffirmed the continuation of the Kyoto protocol for another eight … Continue reading
Carbon Dioxide Reaches 400 ppm
On May 9, 2013, worldwide levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) -the chief culprit for global warming- reached 400 ppm at the monitoring station in Hawaii, which sets the global benchmark. Humans have never been exposed to this level. The last time it happened was at least 2 million years ago, during the Pleistocene Era. In 1958, … Continue reading