Global warming endangers life on Earth!

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Climate change

The threat of GLOBAL WARMING
is NOT
that it gets a few degrees warmer..

The threats are:
Higher food prices
Scarce drinking water
More violent storms
More flooding
More Earth Quakes
Higher sea levels through melting ice
and through expanding water volume
More illegal immigrants
More starving humans
floods will come more often, because of global warming more ocean water is evaporating, global warming causes violent storms, hurricanes, tornadoes, typhoons

floods will come more often, because of global warming more ocean water is evaporating, global warming causes violent storms, hurricanes, tornadoes, typhoons

Update from 26 climatologists—including 14 IPCC members.
Sea levels could rise and methane-laden arctic permafrost could melt much sooner than the panel had anticipated.

The essence of the new report is that things are grimmer than the IPCC has reported. The 2007 report concluded that the warming-induced melting of the Greenland ice sheet could create significant sea-level rise in this century, that sea level rise could be 1.9 mm.
The new diagnosis finds that arctic sea ice is melting 40 % faster than the panel estimated just a few years ago.
Satellites have found that the global average for rising sea levels was 3.4 millimeters per year from 1993-2008.

The report clearly states: *if global warming is to be limited to a maximum of 2°C above pre-industrial values, global emissions need to peak between 2015 and 2020 and then decline rapidly.*
You see that our prognosis from 2004, which was attacked by many, was not faulty at all.

Global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels in 2008 were nearly 40 % higher than those in 1990. Even if global emission rates are stabilized at present-day levels, just 20 more years of emissions would give a 25 percent probability that warming exceeds 2°C, even with zero emissions after 2030. Every year of delayed action increases the chances of exceeding 2°C warming.

Recent global temperatures demonstrate human-induced warming:
Over the past 25 years temperatures have increased at a rate of 0.19°C per decade. Natural, short-term fluctuations are occurring as usual, but there have been no significant changes in the underlying warming trend.

Acceleration of melting of ice-sheets, glaciers and ice-caps can be seen on a wide array of satellite and ice measurements. The Greenland and Antarctic ice-sheets are losing mass at an increasing rate. Melting of glaciers and ice-caps in other parts of the Earth has also accelerated since 1990.

Summer-time melting of Arctic sea-ice has accelerated far beyond the expectations of climate models. The area of sea-ice melt during 2007-2009 was about 40 % greater than the average prediction from IPCC AR4 climate models.

Satellites show recent global average sea-level rise by 3.4 mm/yr over the past 15 years. This acceleration in sea-level rise is consistent with a doubling in contribution from melting of glaciers, ice caps, and the Greenland and West-Antarctic ice-sheets.

Our climate system is vulnerable. Earth's continental ice-sheets, Amazon rainforest, West African monsoon and others is pushed towards abrupt or irreversible change if warming continues. The risk of transgressing critical thresholds (*tipping points) increases strongly with ongoing climate change.

Climate change and global warming will effect us all:

More extreme weather - Increased evaporation
more damage to houses and forests

Destabilization of local climates

Sea level rise + Temperature rise

Acidification +
Shutdown of thermohaline circulation

Ecological productivity + Glacier retreat
Methane release from melting
permafrost peat bogs

Methane release from hydrates

Retreat of sea Ice + habitat loss for wildlife

Glacier retreat + scarce drinking water

Forest fires + Spread of diseases

Insurance gets more expensive

Transport gets more expensive
Flood defense gets more expensive

Migration of billions of humans

Water scarcity + Water will be more expensive
Droughts will make food much more expensive

The global carbon dioxide emissions increased by 35% from the burning of fossil fuels since the Kyoto Protocol was signed in 1992.

The average concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in
2009 was 388 ppm.
CO2 levels that high have been never measured before.

Before humans were building
factories = production facilities
and before humans were
burning fossil fuels in cars and trucks and in their houses
the average concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
was 260 - 280 ppm.

Carbon dioxide stays 50 to 200 years in the Earth's atmosphere
before it can be absorbed into carbon sinks.

2008's the Arctic seasonal sea ice melt
outpaced normal levels by 34%

Increase in the rate of
Greenland's ice melt increased 71% over the last five years.

Seasons are coming earlier every year, now with an average of 1.8 days.

The pine beetle, which is better able to survive
warmer winters and is wreaking havoc in America's western forests and has destroyed already 1.6 million acres in Colorado.

The oil and coal industries spent $427 million
in the first 6 months of 2008
in political contributions,
in lobbying expenditures and advertising
to oppose
climate change action
.

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Global Warming vs. Climate Change
you will find a lot of references to * global warming *.
other publications use climate change.
We think the word * climate change *
better describes the problem.
Global warming describes the average global surface temperature increase from human emissions of greenhouse gases.
1975 the Geo-chemist W. Broecker used the word in an Science article:
"Climatic Change: Are We on the Brink of a Pronounced Global Warming?"

1979, the National Academy of Science study of carbon dioxide's impact on climate, abandoned the old term
"inadvertent climate modification."
Jule Charney of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, declared:
"if carbon dioxide continues to increase,
we find no reason to doubt that climate changes will result
and no reason to believe that these changes will be negligible."

When we talk about surface temperature change,
we use the term *global warming *.
When we discuss the many other changes that have erupted by increasing carbon dioxide,
we use the term * climate change *.
1988 another term appeared * global change *.
Many scientists started to talk about
other kinds of change in addition to climate change.

Also in 1988, NASA scientist James E. Hansen
had testified to Congress about climate, referring to global warming.
Hansen said:
"Global warming has reached a level such that we can ascribe with a high degree of confidence a cause and effect relationship between the greenhouse effect and the observed warming."

At the top of this website we try to explain that a few degree temperature change is not the strongest effect of our changing climate.
Changes to precipitation patterns and sea level are likely to have
a much greater human impact.
Now you know why we like the term
*global climate change* better - it is just more accurate.

UPDATE glaciers are melting

A new study shows that a major Antarctic glacier has passed its tipping point. After losing increasing amounts of ice over the past decades, it is poised to collapse in a catastrophe that could raise global sea levels by 24 centimeters.
Pine Island glacier is one of many at the fringes of the West Antarctic ice sheet. In 2004, satellite observations showed that it had started to thin, and that ice was flowing into the Amundsen Sea
25 per cent faster than it had 30 years before.
A new study shows that Pine Island glacier has probably passed a critical "tipping point" and is irreversibly on track to lose 50 per cent of its ice in as little as 100 years.

Global warming affects the Amundsen Sea, which is at the southern margin of the Pacific Ocean. As rising sea levels push the warm water beneath the ice shelves, it melts them from below, pushing the grounding line higher up the continental shelf.

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