Climate Change Impacts: Ecosystem collapse
A warming global climate could cause sudden, potentially catastrophic losses of ecosystem biodiversity in regions across the globe.
Climate Change
Great Barrier Reef – Update
For the first time ever, severe bleaching has struck all three regions of the Great Barrier Reef – the northern, central and southern parts.
Huge Antarctic glacier retreat does not bode well
Over the last 22 years researchers have observed that the East Antarctic Denman Glacier has retreated 5 kilometers, nearly 3 miles. Here is the trend that has been observed … Why does this cause concern? If fully thawed, the ice in Denman would cause sea levels worldwide to rise about 1.5 meters, almost 5 feet. … Read more
Great Barrier Reef hit by third major bleaching event in five years
Great Barrier Reef hit by third major bleaching event in 5 years. This is a stark sentinel for Climate Change, it has never happened before.
The even greater underlying threat: human-caused climate change
Dr Mann was misrepresented within a recent Boston Global column written by Jeff Jacoby and so this letter by him is now correcting that misinformation.
Greenland shed ice at unprecedented rate in 2019
During warm Arctic summer of 2019 Greenland lost 600 billion tons of ice, enough to raise global sea levels by 2.2 millimeters in 2 months.