One remedy: white paint! – Twelve pathogens could spread into new regions of the world, as a result of global warming. The “Deadly Dozen” list?including such diseases as malaria, bird flu, Ebola, cholera, and tuberculosis?show the broad range of diseases that threaten both humans and animals as the world gets warmer.
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(sort of?for now, anyway) – Researchers say that ocean levels will definitely rise during the next 100 years, but they’re not likely to rise more than 7 feet. This would still be high enough to flood most coastal cities around the world. Is this good news or bad news?
In BBC News, Richard Black quotes USGS researcher Shad O?Neel as saying, “Even a sea level rise of 8 inches in a century will have quite dramatic implications. This work is in no way meant to undermine the seriousness of climate change, and sea level rise is something we’re going to have to deal with.”
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Birds react by moving north – There is a colossal ice shelf collapse going on in our close neighbor Canada. Farther away, Greenland’s glaciers are not doing well. That’s not the only thing that’s happening in the North: Bird habitats are moving that way, as the weather gets warmer.
The ice shelves in Canada have lost a huge amount of ice this year?ice which had been in place for thousands of years. Now almost one-fourth of it is gone. BBC News quotes researcher Derek Mueller as saying, “These changes are irreversible under the present climate.”
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A conservative media outlet admits that, undoubtedly pressured by the Bush administration’s unwavering support of big business, NASA downplayed studies on global warming that were done between 2004 and 2006?and some of them were THEIR OWN studies!
Now none other than Fox News, which used to unabashedly support all Bush policies, quotes the head of NASA?s own watchdog committee as saying that the White House press office used “inappropriate political interference” to silence NASA scientists, because it was close to the 2004 election. The government canceled a NASA press conference about its ozone and global warming monitoring satellite technology and edited or downgraded NASA press releases on the same subject?will something similar happen in the upcoming election? read more