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Global warming to drown Swedish Unesco sites | 08th March 2014
A pair of Unesco World Heritage-listed sites in Sweden could eventually be swallowed up by rising sea levels, a new study claimed.
Climate change is man-made and is worsening despite a slowdown in global warming, claims report | 27th February 2014
Man-made global warming is worsening and will disrupt both the natural world and human society, according to a joint report of two of the world's leading scientific organisations. The U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society, which is the national scientific academy of the UK, have released an unusual plain language report on climate change that addressed 20 issues.
Indonesia risks losing up to 1,500 islands by 2050 | 25th February 2014
By 2030, Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, which serves the capital and is about five kilometres from the seafront, will be under water. Capital Jakarta, with 40 per cent of its land below sea level and sinking, will see its northern districts transformed into lakes then. These bleak projections reflect scientific predictions of the effects of climate change on Indonesia, if nothing more is done.
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Welcome to Climate Change Monitoring
The RSOE EDIS Climate Change Monitoring Services is taking steps to bring this evidence to the public's attention, with the goal of building support for action to reduce the heat-trapping gas emissions that cause global warming. We have developed - and always updated - a world map, viewable online and also available as an Online Maps, that shows where the fingerprints and harbingers of global warming have occurred in recent years. By showing the local consequences of climate change, it brings the message home effectively.
Frustrated because a friend or colleague says global warming is the future's problem?
Compelling new evidence demonstrates that global warming is already under way with consequences that must be faced today as well as tomorrow. The evidence is of two kinds:
- Fingerprints of global warming are indicators of the global, long-term warming trend observed in the historical record. They include heat waves, sea-level rise, melting glaciers and warming of the poles.
- Harbingers are events that foreshadow the impacts likely to become more frequent and widespread with continued warming. They include spreading disease, earlier spring arrival, plant and animal range shifts, coral reef bleaching, downpours, and droughts and fires.