Tuesday, December 21, 2010

whom to blame?



• Average temperatures have climbed 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit (0.8 degree  Celsius) around the globe since 1880, a lot of this in recent decades,  in accordance with NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies. • The speed of warming is increasing. The 20th century’s last twenty years  seem to have been the hottest in 400 years and possibly the warmest for some  millennia, according to a range of climate studies. And the United  Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) news that  11 of the past 12 years is some of the dozen warmest since 1850.
• The Arctic is feeling the outcomes essentially the most. Average temperatures in  Alaska, western Canada, as well as eastern Russia have risen at twice the  global average, according to the multinational Arctic Climate Effect  Assessment report compiled within 2000 and 2004.
• Arctic ice is quickly disappearing, and the region could have the first of all entirely ice-free summer by 2040 or before. Polar bears and indigenous cultures are already suffering from the sea-ice harm.
• Glaciers and mountain snows are quickly melting—for instance, Montana’s Glacier National Park at the moment have solely 27 glaciers, versus 150 in 1910. In the Northern  Hemisphere, thaws additionally come a week before in spring plus freezes commence one week later.<span class="full post">

 

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