a stone from one side to the other. Our fears about
sea level rise are very real. Our Cabinet has been
exploring the possibility of buying land in a
nearby country in case we become refugees of
climate change."
United States Congress will rise to the occasion and
present meaningful solutions to this crisis... This is
our Thermopylae."
the United States of America
self-sustaining, if it has not done so already. The
melting of the Arctic and Antarctic ice caps reduces
the fraction of solar energy reflected back into
space, and so increases the temperature further.
Climate change may kill off the Amazon and other
rain forests, and so eliminate one of the main
ways in which carbon dioxide is removed from the
atmosphere. The rise in sea temperature may trigger
the release of large quantities of methane, trapped as
hydrates on the ocean floor. Both these phenomena
would increase the greenhouse effect, and so further
global warming. We have to reverse global warming
urgently, if we still can."
of `A Brief History of Time`
Nothing is going to get better. It's not."
times in the past 59 years. In that time I have seen
the ice reduce by half."
shape nature's fate. It is our fate, after all."
from Mongolia
responsible for the same greenhouse gas emissions
as a typical Bangladeshi in a whole year."
covered by the Kyoto Protocol: carbon
dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, sulphur
hexafluoride, Perfluorocarbons (PFCs) and
hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) UNFCCC
emissions since 987
due to the 2003 heatwave
European glacier mass
lost since 850
would rise if the Greenland ice sheet
were to melt. If all Antarctic ice were
to melt, sea level would rise by more
than 60 metres
weather-linked disasters. such as tropical
storms and forest fires in 2005
greenhouse-gas emissions by Kyoto
Protocol Parties from 990 levels in
the commitment period 2008202
by 2020 if climate change continues unabated
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
power in 2005 -- up from 4,800 megawatts in 995
of the warmest years in the past 25
years have occurred since 990