What’s Up With the Weather?
Posted on March 26, 2006 Comments (3)
No one can say exactly what it looks like when a planet takes ill, but it probably looks a lot like Earth. Never mind what you’ve heard about global warming as a slow-motion emergency that would take decades to play out. Suddenly and unexpectedly, the crisis is upon us.
Time’s cover story – Be worried, be very worried – starts out with this provocative paragraph. Other recent stories on the effects of climate change, rising ocean levels etc.:
- What’s Up With the Weather? by Nova and Frontline (PBS)
- Possible Consequences 0f climate change – United States National Academy of Science report
- Warming to Cause Catastrophic Rise in Sea Level?, National Geographic News
- Climate Model Predicts Greater Melting, Submerged Cities
- Buffett links hurricane insurance to climate
- Sea level rise ‘is accelerating’
- Ocean changes ‘will cool Europe’
- Global warming – Union of Concerned Scientists
- The problem with “global warming” – “We are facing what might be the greatest threat ever to the future of mankind. And yet no one is marching in the streets, the outrage is largely intellectual and action is slow…. If the problem were called ‘Atmosphere cancer’ or ‘Pollution death’ the entire conversation would be framed in a different way.”
- Pew Center on Global Climate Change
- Arctic System on Trajectory to New, Seasonally Ice-Free State
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