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“The reality we now face implores us to act."
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OUR MISSION IS TO CATALYZE A GLOBAL SOLUTION TO THE CLIMATE CRISIS BY MAKING URGENT ACTION A NECESSITY ACROSS EVERY LEVEL OF SOCIETY. The Earth is facing a climate crisis, driven by fossil fuels.
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Earth’s climate is now changing faster than at any point in the history of modern civilization, primarily as a result of human activities. Global climate change has already resulted in a wide range of impacts across every region of the country and many sectors of the economy that are expected to grow in the coming decades.
The Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4), developed by the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), <More Here>
The Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4), developed by the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), <More Here>
Climate Change: How Do We Know?
Understanding Climate Change
Climate change isn’t a distant threat—it is happening now. The past three years were hotter than any other time in recorded history.
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The Earth's climate has changed throughout history. Just in the last 650,000 years there have been seven cycles of glacial advance and retreat, with the abrupt end of the last ice age about 7,000 years ago marking the beginning of the modern climate era — and of human civilization. Most of these climate changes are attributed to very small variations in Earth’s orbit that change the amount of solar energy our planet receives. <NASA: More Here>
Earth’s climate is now changing faster than at any point in the history of modern civilization, primarily as a result of human activities. Global climate change has already resulted in a wide range of impacts across every region of the country and many sectors of the economy that are expected to grow in the coming decades.
The Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4), developed by the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), <More Here> The impacts of climate change include more extreme weather and natural disasters, chronic droughts & economic instability. We’re focusing on innovative, science-based solutions that match the urgency of this crisis, such as restoring forests from Brazil to Indonesia and working to ensure a clean energy future. Together with supporters like you, we can halt the catastrophic impacts of climate change. <More Here>
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Can Lower Manhattan survive climate change?
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This is the second article in a Yahoo News series on how U.S. cities are dealing with the threat of sea level rise.
NEW YORK — Jainey Bavishi, the woman tasked with overseeing a new $10 billion plan to save Lower Manhattan from sea level rise, has plenty of reasons to worry. As another hurricane season kicks off, the bulk of the proposed barriers inspired by Superstorm Sandy’s destruction remain in the planning phase, and Bavishi knows that each passing day diminishes the motivating potency of that traumatic event. <Read More Here> |
Tornado season in overdrive: What's behind the extreme weather hitting the Midwest?
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What started off as nothing more than an average tornado season has leaped into overdrive these past few weeks. Coupled with historic flooding in the nation's middle and all-time record-shattering heat in the Southeast, this extreme weather is being driven by an extremely amplified pattern — a pattern which bears the fingerprints of both natural climate fluctuations and global warming. <Read More Here>
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Storms, Floods, and Droughts:
The cycle that transports water around the Earth is intensifying
The source of the rain that filled your town reservoir, or flooded your nearby river, or never arrived to water your crops, is most likely the ocean.
The ocean contains 96 percent of the free water on Earth, and it acts like a massive water pump. It is powered by heat evaporating water into water vapor. The atmosphere transports it far and wide, until it condenses into rain or snow and completes the cycle by falling directly back on the ocean or returning via land, rivers, and underground aquifers back to the sea (see interactive graphic).
Now, as global temperatures have been rising, there is strong evidence that the ocean water pump has been revving up. <Read More Here>
The ocean contains 96 percent of the free water on Earth, and it acts like a massive water pump. It is powered by heat evaporating water into water vapor. The atmosphere transports it far and wide, until it condenses into rain or snow and completes the cycle by falling directly back on the ocean or returning via land, rivers, and underground aquifers back to the sea (see interactive graphic).
Now, as global temperatures have been rising, there is strong evidence that the ocean water pump has been revving up. <Read More Here>
