Consequences

ISSUES

Consequences of Global Warming

Melting Ice and Sea Level
Global warming causes the glaciers to melt, thus making the level of the sea rise. This has increased by 3 mm per year since 1993; which may not sound like very much at first, but the mechanism is more complex than it seems. Indeed, the mechanical effect of the ocean’s expansion plays a large role in the phenomenon. Yet the melting of the Arctic, which is already well underway and could be finished by the end of the century, does not modify the level of the sea. It is like a floating ice-cube: it doesn’t make the glass overflow.

NEWS

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DEBATES

Stop Paying the Polluters

Connie Hedegaard

“When the winds of change blow,” says an old Chinese proverb, “some build walls, and others build wind mills.”CommentsThese same...

Thawing of Permafrost Expected to Cause Significant Additional Global Warming, Not yet Accounted for in Climate Predictions

Permafrost covering almost a quarter of the northern...

Governments need to urgently identify how ambition can be raised on climate

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Gap Widening as Nations Head to...

FOCUS

Nobel Price of ecology

Designed to recognize grassroots environmental heroes, the Goldman Environmental Prize, founded by Richard and Rhoda Goldman in 1989 In San Francisco, is awarded annually to individuals from the six inhabited continental regions for sustained and significant efforts to...

VIDEOS

07/03/2013	Two years have passed since the Fukushima nuclear disaster began but...	27/11/2012	Since 1860, geologists have discovered over 2 trillion barrels of oil....
21/11/2012	Geo-engineering aims to mitigate climate change.	05/04/2012	The feature documentary SHATTERED SKY premieres at the DC Environmental...

GREEN TIPS

Intelligent electricity

In Washington State, an electrical network offers some 300 homes an intelligent energy supply. The principle...

INDICATORS

Carbon dioxide emissions
Ecological footprint

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