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GLOBAL WARMING
"There is new and stronger evidence that most of the observed warming over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities."
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, January 2001
The world is becoming warmer due to the build up of gases generated by human activities. One of the main gases causing global warming is carbon dioxide, which comes from the burning of fossil fuels - particularly oil, coal and gas. Global warming not only increases the Earth's temperature, it also leads to an increase in floods, droughts and wildfires, intensified hurricanes, heat waves, the spread of infectious disease and species extinction.
From the tropics to the Arctic, we are experiencing extreme and erratic weather, which has devastating effects on people and the environment.
A series of reports from the world's top climate experts have now confirmed the urgency of the climate crisis.
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) studied all the available data on the Earth's climate and concluded that climate change is happening, that it is caused by the burning of fossil fuels, and that the world is likely to become much warmer than previously thought.
The IPCC predicts that, unless action is taken to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other climate-changing pollutants,
- we will experience more heat waves and floods.
- glaciers and polar ice will continue to melt.
- sea levels could rise by up to six meters.
- many plant and animal species will become extinct.
- outbreaks of diseases will become more common.
- millions of people will be forced to move.
ExxonMobil still denies that global warming is a reality. Who do you trust? 2,500 independent scientists or the world's biggest oil company?
Read more:
www.greenpeaceusa.org/climate/
www.thealliancefordemocracy.org
www.seen.org
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