Conservatives keep telling us not to change our life style. “There’s no solid evidence to support global warming.” “Many scientists are skeptical.” We have refused to sign any agreements to limit greenhouse gasses. Well folks, were now paying for it and I’m not sure there’s enough time to reverse the process.
According to Time, April 2, 2006:
Polar Ice Caps Are Melting Faster Than Ever... More And More Land Is Being Devastated By Drought... Rising Waters Are Drowning Low-Lying Communities... By Any Measure, Earth Is At ... The Tipping Point.
The climate is crashing, and global warming is to blame. Why the crisis hit so soon--and what we can do about it.
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.
It certainly looked that way last week as the atmospheric bomb that was Cyclone Larry--a Category 4 storm with wind bursts that reached 125 m.p.h.--exploded through northeastern
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The photograph taken in 1928, above, shows how the Upsala Glacier, part of the South American Andes in
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