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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FRANCE - PARIS - Nicolas Sarkozy a réclamé jeudi à Paris une nouvelle méthode de travail sur le réchauffement climatique,...

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - NEW YORK - L'ONU a chargé mercredi une organisation scientifique internationale de renom de superviser les travaux de...

FRANCE - PARIS - La France accueille ce jeudi à Paris une conférence internationale ministérielle sur le rôle des forêts dans la...

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DEBATES

Why scientists must be the new climate sceptics

New Scientist

The source of the problems is been well documented: the leaked emails from the University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwich, UK,...

Tabloid Climate Science

The first story was timed to appear just before December’s...

Overcoming the Copenhagen Failure

It was, of course, nice that world leaders could agree that...

FOCUS

A climate Seattle

The Seattle demonstrations, during the 1999 WTO summit put alter-globalization on the international agenda and influenced negotiations for years. If the Copenhagen summit causes popular mobilization on such a...

VIDEOS

18/02/2010	Si la neige n'était pas tombée juste avant le début des Jeux Olympes de...	17/02/2010	Greenpeace has unveiled a collaborative art project with well known street...
09/02/2010	Robert Gallaire, a glaciologist working in the Andes explains the...	05/02/2010	François Gemenne, researcher at the IDDR, explains some of the...

GREEN TIPS

A month after the explosion at the AZF chemical factory in Toulouse, its manager authorised the discharge of...

INDICATORS

Carbon dioxide emissions
Ecological footprint

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