Global Warming Causes, Effects, Information and Awarness

This website provides information and articles on global warming and climate change and the various interrelated issues we will face in the future, the solutions we may choose, the politics involved. It is designed to give a basic introduction to the multifaceted problems we face from global warming and climate change - crop failure, food shortages, water shortages, rising seas, declining ice sheets, mass migrations, water wars, acidic oceans and increased conflict on a planet with dwindling resources and rising population. We are at a critical point in human history. It is only through global warming awareness that we can hope to change course intelligently. Due to necessity we will change our ways. May it not come too late.

Remember This: 350 Parts Per Million

But the data just keep getting worse. The news this fall that Arctic sea ice was melting at an off-the-charts pace and data from Greenland suggesting that its giant ice sheet was starting to slide into the ocean make even 450 look too high. Consider: We're already at 383 parts per million, and it's knocking the planet off kilter in substantial ways. So, what does that mean?

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming

Source: Wikipedia

2007 a Year of Weather Records in US

"We're having an increasing trend of odd years," said Michael MacCracken, a former top federal climate scientist, now chief scientist at the Climate Institute in Washington. "Pretty soon odd years are going to become the norm."

The Sun and Global Warming

Most scientists agree that greenhouse gases from fossil fuels have contributed to the warming of the planet in the past few decades but have questioned whether a brighter Sun is also responsible for rising temperatures.

Global Warming (Stanford EDU)

Global Warming What is it? Factors: Greenhouse Gases, Solar Variability & Global Warming; Trends & Effects; Scientific Studies

Scientists Identify "Tipping Points" of Climate Change

Nine ways in which the Earth could be tipped into a potentially dangerous state that could last for many centuries have been identified by scientists investigating how quickly global warming could run out of control. . . . . . .

The nine elements range from the melting of polar ice sheets to the collapse of the Indian and West African monsoons. The effects of the changes could be equally varied, from a dramatic rise in sea levels that flood coastal regions to widespread crop failures and famine. Some of the tipping points may be close at hand, such as the point at which the disappearance of the summer sea ice in the Arctic becomes inevitable, whereas others, such as the tipping point for the destruction of northern boreal forests, may take several more decades to be reached.

Source: Globalwarmingart.com

Sea Level Rise Maps

UN Issues "Final Wake-Up Call" on Population and Environment

Paris - The human population is living far beyond its means and inflicting damage to the environment that could pass points of no return, according to a major report being issued today by the United Nations.

Climate change, the rate of extinction of species, and the challenge of feeding a growing population are among the threats putting humanity at risk, according to the United Nations Environment Program in its fourth Global Environmental Outlook since 1997.

"The human population is now so large that the amount of resources needed to sustain it exceeds what is available at current consumption patterns," Achim Steiner, the executive director of the Environment Program, said in a telephone interview. Efficient use of resources and reducing waste now are "among the greatest challenges at the beginning in of 21st century," he said.

Global Warming Effects Wikipedia

National Environmental Trust

World View Global Warming

CO2 and the Ornery Climate Beast

From: http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2007/11/12/global-temperature-chart-not-gore-s-movie

The Threat to the Planet: How Can We Avoid Dangerous Human-Made Climate Change? Remarks of James E. Hansen on 21 November 2006 On Acceptance of WWF Duke of Edinburgh Conservation Medal At St. James Palace, London

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