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Climate report warns of four-foot floods on NC coast | 17th July 2014
Citing the rising sea level, a national climate-policy group warned Tuesday that the North Carolina coast could see floods as much as four feet above the high tide line during the next 30 to 60 years, jeopardizing 61,000 homes along the coast.
Editorial: Climate change deniers ignore real devastating dangers | 16th July 2014
The U.S. Global Change Research Project - a team of 300 top U.S. scientists from many federal agencies, created by a 1990 act of Congress - declares flatly.
Climate Change Is a Threat to National Security | 09th July 2014
Global warming is real, and we’re starting to feel the physical effects now. It’s difficult to pin any one event on a warming world; it’s like playing craps with a pair of loaded die. That 12 you rolled may have been random, or it may have been because the dice are very slightly weighted. You have to throw a lot of rolls before the effects are seen with any certainty.
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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.